Jon Wilks
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Jon Wilks is a freelance writer, editor and content strategist. Currently working for Arena Media, he is the former editor of Time Out Tokyo and Time Out Abu Dhabi and occasional contributor to the Guardian, Esquire, Japan Times and Conde Nast Traveller, among other publications.

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Content May Be King, But It's a Pauper Without Quality Control

(0) Comments | Posted 16 May 2013 | (16:14)

As the age of the content producer dawns, Jon Wilks reflects on the untimely death of the sub-editor

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'Content' - you may have come across the word. It's this year's 'social', so brands and agencies the world over are falling over themselves to throw...

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Wild Swimming: Celebrating Romance on the River

(0) Comments | Posted 7 May 2013 | (17:37)

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There's a big wedding anniversary on the horizon and I'm in charge of festivities. The wife wants to celebrate the big 10 by doing "something unusual". I can only hope we're on the same wavelength, as I've spent the last few weeks knocking...

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How I Took on the 'Game of Thrones' Challenge and Survived

(1) Comments | Posted 29 March 2013 | (23:00)

I'm not a fan of Game of Thrones, or at least I wasn't a week ago, and as such I was part of an increasingly rare breed. Anti-GoTs are like social pariahs. We get excluded from communal lunches. People yell things at us in Dothraki and then run off, cackling....

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Living the Slow Life in 2013

(1) Comments | Posted 15 March 2013 | (23:29)

With evidence of a triple-dip recession all about us, making ends meet is no easy task. For many, this has been a time of stress, but there are those amongst us for whom life has continued unperturbed. For these folk, killing time need not be about money. In fact, time...

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Co-Sleeping: A Survivor's Tale

(0) Comments | Posted 6 March 2013 | (23:00)

I celebrated my son's sixth month by unwrapping an ageing family heirloom. Living in Japan at the time, my mother shipped from England a Moses basket - the very one that I inhabited pre-solid-digits - hoping that her first grandson might warm to a little piece of family history when...

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