Tim Wilson

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

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

Journalism

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

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

Wilson is currently executive director of the Maxim Institute, a conservative public policy think tank.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Cowan, John (24 June 2012). "Tim Wilson - Real Life". Real Life with John Cowan. CBA. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  2. 1 2 "About Us". Maxim Institute. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  3. 1 2 "From emptiness to abundance - Tim Wilson's story". NZ Catholic Newspaper. 8 September 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  4. 1 2 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.
  5. ↑ "Tim Wilson: made in Manhattan". NZ Herald. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  6. 1 2 "Seven Sharp reporter Tim Wilson leaving TVNZ after 16 years". NZ Herald. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "Tim Wilson: live from New York City". Stuff. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  8. ↑ Seven Sharp with Tim Wilson - Yahoo
  9. ↑ The Two on Newstalk ZB
  10. ↑ "Tim Wilson leaves TVNZ after 16 years, plans to 'take time and pause'". Stuff. 18 September 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  11. ↑ "Tim Wilson". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  12. ↑ "Tim Wilson". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
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