ON THE SPOT
As New York–based correspondent for TVNZ, Tim Wilson covered some of the biggest recent stories in the United States, from Hurricane Katrina to high school shootings.
As a Press senior writer, Martin van Beynen has covered the biggest stories in the South Island, such as the Christchurch earthquakes and Pike River. Yet their experiences of human responses to disaster fed into very different books: Tim’s apocalyptic novel Their Faces Were Shining, which was a finalist in the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards, and Martin’s quake survivors’ account, Trapped. They talk about the danger and excitement that come with the big stories and how writing transforms them.
Martin van Beynen has been a senior writer at The Press since 2004. He has a law degree from the University of Auckland and a Diploma of Journalism from the University of Canterbury. He is the recipient of several awards, including a Qantas Media Award in 2010. He was Fairfax Media Journalist of the Year 2010–11. His book, Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake, was published earlier this year.
Tim Wilson was Television New Zealand’s US correspondent for six years. He has also worked for the US cable show The IFC Media Project, and as a celebrity commentator for RTL, Europe’s largest network. His award-winning journalism has been published in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Guardian and Newsweek.com. He is the author of a novel, Their Faces Were Shining, and a short story collection, The Desolation Angel.
Chair: Philip Matthews is a senior writer for The Press.
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Date/Time
1 Sep 2012 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Cost:$16/14
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