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Tim Murphy is a former editor and editor in chief of the New Zealand Herald, trialling retirement.

Watch this space: ODT takes the paywall plunge

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The Otago Daily Times has called time on the great online giveaway. The big New Zealand publishers will be watching closely, writes Tim Murphy, former editor-in-chief of the NZ Herald. Its masthead describes it as the “Independent Voice of the South”. Others, affectionately, call it the Oddity. Now the Otago Daily Times lives up to … Read more

Tea, pee and pecuniary gains: Amid the clowns at the trade deal roadshow

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The TPP roadshow kicked off in Auckland yesterday with luxury muffins and pointed questions at an inner city Auckland hotel. Former Herald editor-in-chief Tim Murphy takes in the explanatory slides and the giggling infiltrators. The real TPP roadshow occurred on intersections and motorway on-ramps about four weeks ago. There was noise, blood and guts. The public noticed. … Read more

‘We need to look in the front-vision mirror’ – a very odd afternoon with John Palino

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Tim Murphy heads to a café in a South Auckland garden centre to witness a most peculiar mayoral campaign launch. It is fitting that John Palino’s campaign launch is on February 29. He, too, is a peculiarity who pops-up awkwardly once every few years. It’s also Oscars day, drowning out all but the most melodramatic … Read more