Toby Manhire is a New Zealand journalist and columnist, and the editor at-large of online magazine ''

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''. He is the son of poet

Bill Manhire William Manhire (born 27 December 1946) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, emeritus professor, and New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate (1997–1998). He founded New Zealand's first creative writing course at Victoria University of Well ...

Career

Manhire was editor of student magazine '' Salient'' in 1997. From 2000 to 2010 he worked at ''

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'', and has edited ''The Guardian''s comment pages. His work has also appeared in ''

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'' and the ''

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'', among other publications. In 2012, he edited a book ''The Arab Spring: Rebellion, Revolution, and a New World Order'', published by

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. Manhire is active on Twitter, and was included in Bryce Edwards and Geoffrey Miller's list of the top 100 tweeters to follow in the 2014 election. On reviewing the list, social media blogger Matthew Beveridge concluded that Manhire's place was deserved: "Toby always has a quick comment for whatever is happening. Engages in a lot of discussions, and doesn’t retweet too much. Overall deserving of his place on the list." In May 2017, he became the politics editor at the New Zealand online magazine ''

'', becoming editor in January 2018. In 2016, he began hosting a political

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titled ''Gone By Lunchtime'' alongside journalist Annabelle Lee-Mather and PR consultant Ben Thomas. The podcast's guests have included

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and Mihingarangi Forbes. In 2019, Manhire profiled Ardern for ''

''. Manhire connected microbiologist

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with ''Spinoff'' creative director Toby Morris, with the two partnering to produce globally-popular shareable content containing factual information about

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. Manhire was succeeded as ''Spinoff'' editor by

Madeleine Chapman Madeleine Elsie Chapman (born 16 March 1994) is a New Zealand editor, journalist and author, and the current editor of '' The Spinoff'' and former editor of '' North & South''. Chapman co-wrote the autobiography of New Zealand professional baske ...

on 1 November 2021.

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