Tim Wilson (broadcaster)
Tim Wilson is a former New Zealand journalist and broadcaster, who is currently the executive director of the Maxim Institute.[1][2]
Early life and family
[edit | edit source]Wilson was born in Dunedin and adopted by a Presbyterian minister who relocated the family to Pōkeno and then to New Plymouth and finally Whanganui when Wilson was a teenager. Wilson studied at the University of Auckland.[1]
While working in New York, Wilson converted to Catholicism.[3] He met his future wife, Rachel, a former primary school teacher, in a Catholic church in Auckland; the couple have children.[3][4]
Career
[edit | edit source]Journalism
[edit | edit source]Wilson was formerly a staff writer at Metro magazine before moving to New York City to work as a freelance journalist in September 2001.[5] After making occasional contributions to TVNZ's news bulletins, he was hired as One News' first full-time US correspondent in 2004; his first assignment was the inauguration of George W Bush.[6] He held this position until 2012, when he returned to New Zealand.[7] He has since worked across TVNZ's Breakfast and Seven Sharp programmes as a producer and reporter, and hosting radio programmes on Newstalk ZB.[8][9][4]
Wilson left TVNZ in October 2020.[6][10]
Literary career
[edit | edit source]Tim Wilson has published five books. His first, Good as Goldie (Hatchette; 2002), tells the story of New Zealand art forger Karl Sim.[11] Wilson's four works of fiction are published by Victoria University Press.[12] His first novel Their Faces Were Shining was published in 2010. A collection of short fiction, The Desolation Angel, was published in 2011. News Pigs was published in 2014 with the sequel The Straight Banana published in 2016.
Public policy
[edit | edit source]Wilson is currently executive director of the Maxim Institute, a conservative public policy think tank.[2]
See also
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External links
[edit | edit source]- TVNZ - Tim Wilson Blog Archive
- Michele Hewitson interview: Tim Wilson
- Tim Wilson's profile on Victoria University
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