Background
Gower grew up in New Plymouth, where his father was a fitter and turner at a power station, and his mother was a doctor"s receptionist.
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Patrick Gower
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He had a Catholic upbringing, and attended Street Joseph"s convent school and Francis Douglas Memorial College. While he attended Victoria University he got involved in Salient magazine.
Career
He has a Bachelor with honours in politics from Victoria University of Wellington, choosing the university because it was near Parliament. After finishing his politics degree, he studied journalism at Auckland University of Technology. Gower started his journalism career working the graveyard shift (6pm–1:30am) at The New Zealand Herald, later becoming police reporter.
He subsequently moved overseas and worked at Jane"s Police Review.
Once back in New Zealand he worked again at the Herald, covering politics and working under Audrey Young. Later he made the move to television journalism and began working at 3 News, where he was initially a political reporter.
He has said that the transition involved a big change in reporting styles:
He took over as political editor of 3 News from Duncan Garner in November 2012. Despite controversy about political bias on social networking sites, Gower claims to be a non-voter on the grounds of impartiality, stating the following:.
