Aussies in Asia: The Thai island life of media man Tim Newton

by Peter Olszewski

Featured in this week’s edition of mediaweek.com.au

 

 

There’s also a tropical island buzz about the way Thaiger conducts its business

 

What do you do if you’re a middle-aged entrepreneurial spirit, a self-confessed media junkie who’s put in 20 years in Australian radio, then invested in a Chinese boat-building business and went bust?

 

If you’re Tim Newton, you pack your bags and head for a tropical island like Phuket where you can eat cheap Thai food and hang up a shingle saying you’re in media business mode again, but fully embracing the digital world.

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/thai-life/aussies-in-asia-the-thai-island-life-of-media-man-tim-newton

 

 

-- © Copyright The Thaiger 2018-10-14

With the imminent property crash in Oz just around the corner, cant see him lasting long in Phuket

1 hour ago, baansgr said:

With the imminent property crash in Oz just around the corner, cant see him lasting long in Phuket

Please explain the connection as I cannot see it?

From the Thaiger linked article - 

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and said, “We now have the fourth-largest English-speaking media company in Thailand with plans to be Numero Uno by the end of 2019.

I wonder what Mr Cheeseman's view is on that.........

10 minutes ago, topt said:

Please explain the connection as I cannot see it?

Many Australians living on borrowed  money from equity in their property that can not now remortgage, and with rising inteterest Rates will likely have to go home. 

 

Unless he can speak, read, and write Mandarin, he will so be out of a job on Phuket.  ????

2 hours ago, baansgr said:

Many Australians living on borrowed  money from equity in their property that can not now remortgage, and with rising inteterest Rates will likely have to go home. 

 

Or, do like many did during the GFC, move to the village in Issan.  ????

I gave up on this guy after listening to him report things that just are not fact. He seems to just copy other news outlets badly as he get so many stories wrong and the grammar used is childish at best. I realize he has Thai journalists writing for him as well but as the editor he should proof read and correct what they write before hitting enter.

Twenty years in Australian Radio, not very long at all.

Never heard of him, most people I know and worked with have been around 30-50 years and quite a few of them are STILL at it.

Who?

People still listen to radio? They never stop waffling

28 minutes ago, Tailwagsdog said:

People still listen to radio? They never stop waffling

 

I listen to music DJs in the car. Talking heads not.