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Member Profile

The Top of the South Branch ​of ​the ​New Zealand Society of Authors


Colin Taylor

Colin has retired to Nelson after a career of over 56 years as a journalist and editor.

Starting out as a reporter with the Christchurch Star in January 1963, he has also worked as desk editor for the NZ Press Association/Reuters in Wellington and news producer for BBC Television in London.
 
Returning to Auckland in 1994, he was employed as a sub-editor, features writer and business editor with the New Zealand Herald in Auckland, and was part-time editor of the law society’s weekly publication Law News for 16 years.
 
Colin is the author of the 382-page illustrated coffee table book, Body, Mind and Spirit, recounting the 150-year history of the YMCA in New Zealand; and was a contributing author to the The Insight Travel Guide to New Zealand.

 



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  • Welcome!
  • About Us
  • NEWS/EVENTS
    • Coming Events
    • Regular Events
    • Radio Show
    • Newsletters
  • MEMBER PROFILES
  • LOCAL SERVICES FOR WRITERS
    • Beta Readers
    • Book Design
    • Editing, Proofreading
    • E-publishing
    • Illustration/ Photography
    • Manuscript Assessment
    • Promotion, Publicity, Distribution
    • Self-publishing & Printing
  • RESOURCES & PUBLICATIONS
    • Publications
    • Writing Groups
  • Page & Blackmore Competition
  • WRITERS' TRAIL
    • Nelson/Tasman >
      • Cliff Fell/Mapua Waterfront
      • Helen McKinlay
      • Karen Stade
      • Margaret Mahy/Crinkum-Crankum Tree
      • Maurice Gee/Maitai River
      • Maurice Gee/Botanical Reserve
    • Marlborough >
      • Eileen Duggan/Tuamarina
      • Katherine Mansfield/Koromiko
      • Katherine Mansfield/Anakiwa
      • Ernest Berry/Blenheim
      • Renwick Museum & Watson Memorial Library
      • Taylor River Writers' Walk
    • West Coast >
      • Bill Pearson/Greymouth
      • Jenny Pattrick/Denniston
  • JOIN The NZ Society of Authors
  • CONTACT
  • Page & Blackmore 2 Competition