Tim Fulton
A journalist with more than 20 years’ experience in national and regional media, including senior reporting roles at Stuff. Owner operator of a public relations consultancy, Tim Fulton Media and author of Kiwi Farmers Guide to Life, Bateman Books (2021) and Straight off the Tussock, Fraser Books (2005).
SKILLS:
- Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team and can work independently.
- Experience of daily publishing deadlines and workload with The Press, Stuff website and other Fairfax NZ publications.
- Comfortable in large and small work-teams
- Strong sense of collegiality.
- Ability to establish a rapport quickly with people, analyse and condense information.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Journalist and PR contractor:
Work includes:
Editor, New Zealand Angus Association annual magazines
Author of Kiwi Farmers Guide to Life, Bateman Books
Published June, 2021
Author of The Clarence: People and Places of Waiau Toa, Bateman Books
Due for release, October 2022
Independent contract writer, PR consultant and media advisor
RedPR – contractor to Ali Jones
Senior Reporter for The New Zealand Farmers Weekly
Communications consultant
Communications consultant: Chambers PR agency, Christchurch
Senior Business reporter
Fairfax Media/Stuff
A business journalist for The Press and Fairfax’s national news outlet, Stuff website. Worked with a Christchurch-based bureau chief and remotely with a team of 12 other senior business reporters. Also filed a range of general news stories.
Senior Politics reporter
Senior politics writer for The Press in the lead-up to the 2014 General Election. Supplied news stories, features and commentary to The Press, Stuff and worked alongside Fairfax’s Press Gallery staff for Christchurch-based political coverage.
Reporter, Newsroom
Associate Press Gallery correspondent
Reporter for NZX Newsroom, covering business and politics on part-time basis in support of team headed by Marie McNicholas.
Editor at Large – The New Zealand Farmers Weekly
Monitoring the editorial strategy and range of content in consultation with the day-to-day news editor.
Writing features, news and opinion for our print and on-line publications, including Newsroom and Young Country magazine.
Editor
As the second editor of the publication, shaped the editorial to make it the top-rated agribusiness newspaper in the country (in reader surveys.
In all, edited 350 issues consecutively over nearly eight years, during which time the newspaper became the top-earning agribusiness publication in New Zealand.
New Zealand Rural Press:
The Dairyman
Straight Furrow
- From 2007-2009 contributed essays to the international publishing firm Oxford Analytica Daily Brief. Oxford Analytica provides a consultancy and briefing service for clients worldwide, including government, multilateral agencies and multinational corporations.
- Speaker of French and German 200 Level at University of Canterbury.
- Christ’s College Old Boy, husband and father of two boys.
QUALIFICATIONS:
SIT Graduate Certificate in Communication (Local Government)
University of Canterbury Graduate Diploma in Journalism
University of Canterbury Bachelor of Arts majoring in Political Science and Sociology
Goethe-Institut Certificate in German as a Foreign Language
Christ’s College Canterbury
B Bursary (English, French, German, History
University scholarship in History of Art
Roles:
Previous –
Past President, Ohoka Rugby Club (Life Member)
Current Canterbury Country Premier grade cricket umpire
Past Secretary, Swannanoa Cricket Club
Past President North Canterbury Rugby Sub Union
Past Board Member, Canterbury Country Rugby Sub Union
Schooling:
University of Canterbury
Christ’s College, Canterbury
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
New Zealand Guild of Agricultural Journalists and Communicators
Executive member