Before becoming Executive Director of Maxim, Tim was an award-winning journalist working in print, radio and television. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and Newsweek.com. He was TVNZ’s first US Correspondent and has been a business development manager and an English teacher. Tim has written three novels, one of which—Their Faces Were Shining—was a finalist in the New Zealand Post Book Awards. He is married to Rachel; they have four sons: Roman, Felix, Wilfred, and Otto.
A proposed law change could undermine court proceedings and deny 170,000 Kiwis fair compensation.
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Kiwis are losing trust in every major institution. Tim Wilson looks at the data.
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The Olympics has been mired in controversy with the "satire" of the Last Supper at the opening...
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Executive Director Tim Wilson analyses the deceptive tactic of "squid ink," which is used to blur...
China's vehement denials and defensive stance regarding revelations of state-sponsored hacking...
Waitangi commemorations were not near cataclysmic as predicted by some; in fact, a degree of...
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