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]
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 three sons.[3][4]
Career[edit]
Journalism[edit]
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]
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]
Wilson is currently executive director of the Maxim Institute, a conservative public policy think tank.[2]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Cowan, John (24 June 2012). "Tim Wilson - Real Life". Real Life with John Cowan. CBA. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
- ^ a b "About Us". Maxim Institute. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ a b "From emptiness to abundance - Tim Wilson's story". NZ Catholic Newspaper. 8 September 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ a b Prebble, Amy (28 May 2019). "Radio hosts Tim Wilson and Tim Roxborogh on why they're similar but different in so many ways". Now To Love. Bauer Media. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
- ^ "Tim Wilson: made in Manhattan". NZ Herald. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ a b "Seven Sharp reporter Tim Wilson leaving TVNZ after 16 years". NZ Herald. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Tim Wilson: live from New York City". Stuff. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ Seven Sharp with Tim Wilson - Yahoo
- ^ The Two on Newstalk ZB
- ^ "Tim Wilson leaves TVNZ after 16 years, plans to 'take time and pause'". Stuff. 18 September 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Tim Wilson". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Tim Wilson". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 16 October 2016.