The Fold

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Conversations about the intersections of media, culture and technology in New Zealand, hosted by Duncan Greive, founder of The Spinoff.

Episode Date
Results season! Breaking down and picking a winner from TVNZ, Sky and NZME
Sep 02, 2025
System1's Andrew Tindall on myths and truths in modern advertising
Sep 01, 2025
Sky CEO Sophie Moloney on the NZ rugby and Three deals and the depth of its moat
Aug 28, 2025
RNZ’s Paul Thompson on that bombshell radio report
Aug 27, 2025
Monopod: on the Sky-NZ Rugby deal, RNZ’s radio challenges and the Substack exodus
Aug 25, 2025
The one local media form defying gravity
Aug 18, 2025
Neil Finn on the broken promise of the internet – and why he won’t give up on it
Aug 12, 2025
NZ on Air funds reality TV now?
Aug 11, 2025
How a new history of NZ pop music reveals media's revolutions
Aug 04, 2025
What happened when advertising decided it could save the world?
Jul 28, 2025
Why is Epstein suddenly everywhere, and what does that mean for New Zealand's media and politics?
Jul 23, 2025
Emergency pod! On Sky buying Three – and what it means for TVNZ
Jul 22, 2025
Can Netflix's run last forever? Plus Substack's raise and Beacons reflections
Jul 21, 2025
How Auckland FC aced (almost) everything – including its media strategy
Jul 14, 2025
The biggest media stories no one is talking about
Jul 07, 2025
The double radio life of BrianFM's mysterious owner
Jun 30, 2025
TVNZ turns to sport – will it turn away from Shortland St? Plus a big result for Stuff
Jun 23, 2025
Why festivals are failing as live music is booming – and the battle for Western Springs
Jun 16, 2025
Bauer, five years after part II: The Listener and Are Media rise from the ashes
Jun 11, 2025
Bauer, five years after part I: Ensemble, Here and the rise of the independents
Jun 09, 2025
Emergency Pod, part II: Inside the final showdown at the NZME's annual meeting
Jun 03, 2025
Emergency pod: Trade Me buys 50% of Stuff Digital – what?! And why?!
Jun 03, 2025
On the budget, radio ratings – and NZME loses a star while gaining a channel
May 26, 2025
Voyagers debrief, the NZME saga seems over and a big boost for movies
May 19, 2025
Why are there suddenly two country music stations in New Zealand?
May 12, 2025
Emergency podcast: Trump’s tariffs go to the movies – plus the latest NZME drama
May 06, 2025
What really matters in the battle to save NZ TV?
May 05, 2025
If not advertising, then what?
Apr 29, 2025
The big job ahead for TVNZ’s news and content chief and Google is dealt a blow
Apr 22, 2025
Are print magazines really making a comeback, or is it wishful thinking?
Apr 14, 2025
What Trump’s tariffs could mean for media and the latest on NZME
Apr 07, 2025
Careless People, Adolescence and where Meta is at
Mar 31, 2025
Analysing the Grenon Letters – and is Trade Me buying Stuff?
Mar 25, 2025
A Gen X, a Millennial and a Gen Z talk about culture, media and reputations across generations
Mar 24, 2025
Kevin Chesters says there never was a golden age of advertising
Mar 17, 2025
A new world order: big tech and regulation in the second coming of Trump
Mar 10, 2025
Emergency pod: A revolution at NZME?
Mar 06, 2025
The Big Three #3: Sky has turned itself around – and the rugby deal seems when, not if
Mar 05, 2025
The Big Three #2: TVNZ has survived a year from hell – but challenges loom
Mar 04, 2025
The Big Three #1: NZME's plans (and owners) could reshape our media
Mar 03, 2025
The Fold Live in Wellington: will Substack save journalism? Or destroy it?
Feb 24, 2025
Australia's media lost more than half its value in five years. How and why?
Feb 16, 2025
Emergency monopod: on the seismic media reforms Paul Goldsmith just floated
Feb 12, 2025
Bonus episode: How the media covers Waitangi
Feb 07, 2025
The extremely online weirdness of the Ted Cruz tweet affair
Feb 03, 2025
NZME pivots to video in 2025, the problem with TVNZ's cricket hit and DeepSeek explodes the AI world
Jan 28, 2025
We’re back! On Meta going MAGA, TikTok’s perilous future and NZ media in 2025
Jan 20, 2025
Summer reissue: Australia has banned social media for under 16s. And that's just the beginning
Jan 15, 2025
Summer reissue: Spotify's data alchemist explains the mysteries of music streaming
Jan 08, 2025
Summer reissue: NZ on Air's Where are the Audiences 2024 special: legacy media strikes back
Jan 01, 2025
Summer reissue: One final Newshub bulletin for Sam Hayes and Mike McRoberts
Dec 25, 2024
Summer reissue: Inside the enormous, invisible Roblox economy
Dec 18, 2024
Looking back on the media horror movie that was 2024
Dec 16, 2024
Inside the wild, complex, obscure and incredibly important world of media buying
Dec 12, 2024
Big changes at Whakaata Māori reveal complex challenges for Māori news in the digital era
Dec 10, 2024
Australia has banned social media for under 16s. And that's just the beginning
Dec 03, 2024
A special edition of The Fold: The future of The Spinoff
Nov 27, 2024
A mini-episode about that NZ Herald story – and the new NZ on Air round
Nov 25, 2024
One man stares into the abyss
Nov 18, 2024
Inside one of the most unexpected hits in NZ media
Nov 13, 2024
Mass cuts at TVNZ – but are they enough? And NZME's podcast drama, explained
Nov 11, 2024
The non-endorsements, the fate of 1News.co.nz and tremors from small publishers
Nov 04, 2024
How The Spinoff's Top 100 NZ TV shows list was made
Oct 30, 2024
What does Sky's big win with Max mean?
Oct 28, 2024
An aggressive Substack moves to the heart of the creator economy
Oct 23, 2024
A new character enters the scene at NZ on Air, and what Matt Heath says about ZB's future
Oct 21, 2024
Where to now for TVNZ?
Oct 14, 2024
Motion Sickness on their wild journey from Dunedin to Cannes
Oct 09, 2024
Google threatens to abandon news in NZ. What comes next?
Oct 07, 2024
Could live events be the TV commercials of the future? Spark thinks so
Oct 02, 2024
What the hell happened to traffic? + Stuff's pivots and RNZ's regrets
Sep 30, 2024
Have advertisers forgotten how to build brands?
Sep 25, 2024
More cuts at TVNZ, more growth at RNZ – is the future a news merger?
Sep 23, 2024
The man in charge of an era-defining rugby rights negotiation
Sep 18, 2024
Assessing two tough years in screen production and news, and Australian media follows NZ media into a hole
Sep 16, 2024
Did Spark win its big gaming event? Plus Nielsen drama between Stuff and the NZ Herald
Sep 09, 2024
NZME and TVNZ’s contrasting fortunes and the global challenges of public radio
Sep 02, 2024
Spotify's data alchemist explains the mysteries of music streaming
Aug 28, 2024
NZ on Air's Where are the Audiences 2024 special: legacy media strikes back
Aug 26, 2024
A new documentary on the national rugby team due its own breakout era
Aug 21, 2024
Stuff's CEO is gone, TVNZ eyes a paywall and sports, and the moral complexity of the surging TAB
Aug 19, 2024
Is the Film Commission / NZ on Air merger now inevitable? Plus a meltdown in pay TV – and an intriguing NZME-Sky tie-up
Aug 12, 2024
How NZ film's b-grade outlaw king ended up making one for the whole family
Aug 07, 2024
Netflix is in a category of one, ThreeNews wobbles and the NZ Herald holds the centre
Aug 05, 2024
NEW FORMAT: NZ media news and analysis – with Glen Kyne
Jul 29, 2024
Who starts a print magazine during a pandemic?
Jul 21, 2024
Behind The Story: Reporting on the news within the news
Jul 07, 2024
One final Newshub bulletin for Sam Hayes and Mike McRoberts
Jul 04, 2024
A strange trip through the end of Newshub and the beginning of crypto gaming
Jun 30, 2024
A powerhouse of NZ film and TV on why the hits are drying up
Jun 23, 2024
Toby Manhire on the making of Juggernaut and what we know about Stuff's Three News
Jun 16, 2024
Listen Now: episode one of Juggernaut – I Love You, Mr Lange
Jun 16, 2024
A South Auckland news junkie on the end of Newshub and a new era at the Pacific Media Network
Jun 09, 2024
10 years of seismic shifts in public relations
Jun 02, 2024
A tumultuous year in the life of Shit You Should Care About
May 26, 2024
What does a near-complete survey of podcasting in New Zealand tell us?
May 19, 2024
The drums are beating for a big tech levy for NZ – how would it work?
May 12, 2024
Meta might turn off news in Australia. Here's how one publisher is responding
May 05, 2024
Introducing Behind the Story: If you love a dog, you must also love disposing of its sh*t
May 03, 2024
The brief, inglorious reign of Melissa Lee - and how a more powerful minister might change NZ’s media
Apr 28, 2024
How the Stuff deal shuffles the NZ media deck
Apr 21, 2024
How Madison Reidy built a YouTube smash for the NZ Herald
Apr 14, 2024
Another dark day for NZ media, and the plan? Nothing.
Apr 10, 2024
Is what's happening to news all advertisers' fault?
Apr 07, 2024
After a lifetime on stages and screens, a new Mountain
Mar 31, 2024
The startup helping small media get a bigger share of advertising spend
Mar 24, 2024
The NZ film legends behind Once Were Warriors and The Convert
Mar 17, 2024
How big data and AI are transforming out-of-home – and advertising
Mar 10, 2024
On the redundancies at TVNZ, and the awful end of Sunday and Fair Go
Mar 07, 2024
There's more Bad News from Leon Wadham
Mar 03, 2024
Deep inside the past, present and possible futures of Newshub and Three
Feb 29, 2024
On the sudden, shocking end to Newshub and Three as we know it
Feb 28, 2024
The quiet genius who connects Havoc and Jeremy Wells to Neighbours at War
Feb 25, 2024
How an anonymous Substacker rose to oversee the online future of Newstalk ZB
Feb 18, 2024
How to sell red meat in the age of climate change
Feb 14, 2024
Inside the enormous, invisible Roblox economy
Feb 11, 2024
How Laneway gets it so right, so often
Feb 04, 2024
The present and future of social and the creator economy
Jan 28, 2024
Summer reissue: Noelle McCarthy on the glory days of bFM and making podcasts
Jan 21, 2024
Summer reissue: No one gets the internet quite like Embedded’s Kate Lindsay
Jan 14, 2024
Summer reissue: The D*List is media for – not about – people with disabilities
Jan 07, 2024
Summer reissue: The ABC’s Gaven Morris on fixing public media in New Zealand
Dec 31, 2023
The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2023
Dec 18, 2023
Claire Mabey on why books are thriving in the internet age
Dec 17, 2023
On the uncertain future for TV
Dec 10, 2023
Todd Niall on covering Wayne Brown and the Auckland beat
Dec 03, 2023
Simon Denny on making huge, ambivalent artworks about the big tech era
Nov 30, 2023
Where has all the music journalism gone?
Nov 26, 2023
How Caffeine Daily challenges hostility toward the media
Nov 19, 2023
On TVNZ’s Showcase and the state of NZ media
Nov 15, 2023
Vincent Heeringa on his pioneering role in sustainability media
Nov 12, 2023
How Tom Sainsbury built his career
Nov 05, 2023
Michael Donaldson on the golden age of newspapers and building a new print career in craft beer
Oct 29, 2023
Emergency episode: The Project NZ facing cancellation
Oct 26, 2023
Chelsea Rapp on the potential for NZ’s gaming industry
Oct 22, 2023
The case for a minister of culture and creativity
Oct 15, 2023
On the election debate I wish we could have had
Oct 08, 2023
Bryan Wilmot on how to drive investment with content
Oct 01, 2023
ZB+ is great idea – here’s why
Sep 26, 2023
Annie Murray on the NZ Film Commission in the age of streaming
Sep 24, 2023
Nikki Wright and David Robertson on how to communicate climate change
Sep 17, 2023
Noelle McCarthy on her new podcast Dear Jane
Sep 10, 2023
Emergency podcast: NZ on Air’s Cam Harland on the latest Where are the Audiences? research
Sep 05, 2023
Letterboxd proves that social media doesn’t have to be a hellscape
Sep 03, 2023
No one gets the internet quite like Embedded’s Kate Lindsay
Aug 27, 2023
The mystery of the missing pan-Asians in media
Aug 20, 2023
Milly Olykan on exporting country music to the world
Aug 13, 2023
Shayne Currie has the whole of New Zealand’s news media talking
Aug 06, 2023
Thompson Spencer are growing into a major new agency
Jul 23, 2023
Bronwynn Bakker on taking kiwi comedy to the world
Jul 16, 2023
Sarah-Jane Paine on Growing Up in New Zealand
Jul 09, 2023
The D*List is media for – not about – people with disabilities
Jul 02, 2023
Guy Montgomery has figured out comedy
Jun 25, 2023
On the RNZ Russia scandal
Jun 15, 2023
Matt Bale on the future of AI in the media business
Jun 11, 2023
How New Zealand's internet could be about to change forever
Jun 01, 2023
Madeleine Sami on how to create more creatives
May 28, 2023
Budget special: Bernard Hickey and Toby Manhire binge on bread and butter
May 18, 2023
Joel Little and Savina Fountain on the creation of Big Fan
May 14, 2023
Peter Griffin on how generative AI has revolutionised the tech industry
May 07, 2023
Jo Norris on Stuff’s bold new approach to paywalls for news
Apr 28, 2023
Dr. Paul Spoonley sees the future – and wants us to see it too
Apr 23, 2023
Mihingarangi Forbes and Annabelle Lee-Mather are the most iconic duo in journalism
Apr 16, 2023
Damien Venuto on what it takes to host The Front Page
Apr 09, 2023
Alex Braae and Anna Rawhiti-Connell on how The Bulletin is made
Apr 02, 2023
Emergency episode: Today FM gets taken off air
Mar 30, 2023
Guyon Espiner on NZ's troublesome lobbying laws
Mar 26, 2023
Dr. Jim Mather on the founding days of Whakaata Māori
Mar 19, 2023
Mukpuddy on keeping local animation alive for over 20 years
Mar 12, 2023
The ABC’s Gaven Morris on fixing public media in New Zealand
Mar 05, 2023
James Frankham on the evolution of NZ Geographic
Feb 26, 2023
Georgia Rippin on the untapped potential of web-series
Feb 19, 2023
Nick Vile on the legacy media form still thriving in a digital world
Feb 12, 2023
Duncan Greive on stepping down as CEO of The Spinoff
Feb 05, 2023
Glen Kyne on Warner Bros. Discovery's future in New Zealand
Jan 29, 2023
The Shit Show feat. Duncan Greive
Jan 24, 2023
Madeline Chapman and Toby Manhire on Jacinda Ardern and the media
Jan 19, 2023
Justin Flitter on the AI takeover
Jan 15, 2023
Mini-pod: The danger of AI to the media industry
Jan 08, 2023
Mini-pod: if the RNZ-TVNZ merger gets blown up, what should Plan B be?
Jan 01, 2023
The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2022
Dec 25, 2022
RNZ's Paul Thompson on the future of public media in New Zealand
Dec 18, 2022
Mediawatch's Hayden Donnell on the biggest stories of the year
Dec 11, 2022
Amie Mills on NZ on Air’s confronting Gen Z research and a brave new remit
Dec 05, 2022
Tracey Martin has the hardest job in NZ media
Nov 27, 2022
Janine Morrell-Gunn on a groundbreaking career in television
Nov 20, 2022
Mister Organ has David Farrier hanging by a thread
Nov 13, 2022
Madeleine Chapman on her first year editing The Spinoff
Nov 06, 2022
Jon Duffy on Consumer as the original member-funded media organisation
Oct 30, 2022
Chris Parker is at his peak but still pining
Oct 23, 2022
Rewind | Viva La Dirt League on building a YouTube empire from West Auckland
Oct 16, 2022
Rewind | Joe Daymond is building a comedy empire
Oct 09, 2022
Tova O’Brien on the Three news political dynasty and going up against Hosking
Oct 02, 2022
The murk around the merger, Facebook in war mode and media after the monoculture
Sep 25, 2022
TVNZ CEO Simon Power has some notes for the government on its merger
Sep 18, 2022
Alice Snedden has bad news for people who love Bad News
Sep 11, 2022
Finlay Macdonald on what powers The Conversation and the golden age of NZ magazines
Sep 04, 2022
Elise Sterback has a radical plan for arts funding
Aug 28, 2022
Michelle Ang on being a child star, then growing up in film and TV
Aug 21, 2022
Rex Woodbury on all the ways Gen Z is changing the world
Aug 14, 2022
John Tapu is building a Pacific media powerhouse in his Māngere garage
Aug 07, 2022
Willie Jackson on the RNZ-TVNZ merger and his one big regret
Jul 31, 2022
How Brodie Kane became a podcast powerhouse
Jul 24, 2022
Jack Tame and Alex Braae on the remaking of Q+A
Jul 17, 2022
Anna Rawhiti-Connell on the newsletter boom and the evolution of social media
Jul 10, 2022
Te Papa's Courtney Johnston on museums as slow journalism
Jul 03, 2022
The digital media startup bringing hard news to Queenstown
Jun 26, 2022
Leigh Hart is super funny - he’s also a business genius
Jun 19, 2022
Henry Cooke was born to be in the press gallery
May 29, 2022
Oliver Driver and the quietly revolutionary Shortland Street
May 22, 2022
Wendy Youens wants to make NZ’s media accessible to all
May 15, 2022
Irene Gardiner on the screen industry in the time of streaming
May 08, 2022
Bernard Hickey has charged enough for The Kākā. Now, he wants to give it away.
May 01, 2022
Netflix’s chilling numbers, and Elon’s new toy
Apr 27, 2022
Nathan Rarere's broadcasting path to First Up
Apr 24, 2022
Don Mann on the spectrum of community serving
Apr 17, 2022
Olivia Carville on covering big tech at one of the world’s greatest magazines
Apr 11, 2022
Viva La Dirt League on building a YouTube empire from West Auckland
Apr 05, 2022
Tim Harper on how NFTs can build a better future for artists
Mar 27, 2022
Anna Fifield vs the public service comms machine
Mar 20, 2022
How the ACC became a sports entertainment juggernaut
Mar 13, 2022
Sanjana Hattotuwa’s month watching the parliament protest
Mar 06, 2022
Emily Writes on the year that changed her life
Feb 27, 2022
Julie Zhu is telling everyday immigrant stories
Feb 20, 2022
Joe Daymond is building a comedy empire
Feb 13, 2022
Sean Plunket is platforming himself
Feb 07, 2022
Dallas Gurney on how Today FM will be different
Jan 30, 2022
Summer reissue: Emma Espiner on Getting Better
Jan 23, 2022
Summer reissue: Lucy Blakiston on building SYSCA
Jan 09, 2022
Summer reissue: Derek Cheng would rather be climbing
Dec 26, 2021
The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2021
Dec 21, 2021
2021 in review: the year in Aotearoa media
Dec 12, 2021
Guy Williams on making New Zealand Today into a podcast
Dec 05, 2021
Dan Buckingham on the ‘forgotten diversity’ of disability
Nov 28, 2021
TVNZ's Cate Slater on what's coming in 2022
Nov 21, 2021
Discovery’s Glen Kyne on the future of Three
Nov 14, 2021
Bonus chat: What’s going on at Three?
Nov 09, 2021
Ahmed Osman on representation on NZ screens
Nov 07, 2021
Everybody loves Coffee News
Oct 31, 2021
Bailey Mackey on making the Vaxathon
Oct 22, 2021
Hal Crawford on the Facebook Files
Oct 17, 2021
Head High and the future of locally made TV drama
Oct 13, 2021
Toby Morris on Dad Man Walking and comics journalism
Oct 03, 2021
Samson Samasoni on reaching Pasifika audiences
Sep 19, 2021
Janet Wilson on Judith Collins’ National Party
Sep 14, 2021
Big shocks in 2021's 'Where are the Audiences?' research
Sep 08, 2021
Dylan Cleaver on the changing shape of sports journalism
Sep 05, 2021
Danyl Mclauchlan on postjournalism
Aug 29, 2021
Creator Series: Jon Wild on making NZ's best reality TV
Aug 08, 2021
Creator Series: Emma Espiner on Getting Better
Aug 01, 2021
Creator Series: Dan Ahwa on Viva’s unique place in NZ media
Jul 25, 2021
Creator Series: Troy Kingi’s 10 10 10 project
Jul 18, 2021
Creator Series: Lucy Blakiston from Shit You Should Care About
Jul 11, 2021
Creator Series: Qiane Matata-Sipu on Nuku Women and protecting Ihumātao
Jul 04, 2021
Creator Series: James Roque on selling his comedy special
Jun 27, 2021
Creator Series: The reinvention of Metro magazine
Jun 20, 2021
Creator Series: Derek Cheng on balancing a press gallery job with a climbing obsession
Jun 13, 2021
Creator Series: Kirsty Johnston on impact journalism and the difference between the Herald and Stuff
May 30, 2021
Miriyana Alexander on two years of NZ Herald's online subscription model
May 16, 2021
TVNZ CEO Kevin Kenrick on the media merger and the future of OnDemand
May 09, 2021
The 17-year-old magazine publishers making social change in youth circles
May 02, 2021
Special Group founder Tony Bradbourne on the rapidly changing world of advertising
Apr 18, 2021
Broadcasting minister Kris Faafoi on funding NZ journalism
Apr 11, 2021
Vodafone CEO Jason Paris on ethical advertising and the Magic Talk saga
Apr 05, 2021
Cam Wallace on his first three months as MediaWorks CEO
Mar 28, 2021
Hal Crawford on reviewing the NZ Media Fund
Mar 18, 2021
Local Democracy reporter Justin Latif on telling the stories of South Auckland
Mar 11, 2021
Facebook just blocked all news in Australia
Feb 18, 2021
Substack's Hamish McKenzie on a new era of publishing
Feb 14, 2021
Ali Mau on #MeTooNZ, talkback radio and the New Zealand music industry's reckoning
Feb 08, 2021
Summer reissue: Media, money and the government, with Bernard Hickey
Jan 28, 2021
Summer reissue: Sinead Boucher on buying Stuff for $1
Jan 21, 2021
Summer reissue: Gaurav Sharma, The Indian Times
Jan 07, 2021
The wildfire that was 2020 for NZ media, reviewed
Dec 23, 2020
The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2020
Dec 21, 2020
Turning words into action, with Laura O’Connell Rapira
Dec 03, 2020
Introducing Coming Home: Like nothing we've ever seen before
Nov 22, 2020
The boss of all rugby, with Mark Robinson
Nov 20, 2020
Media, money and the government, with Bernard Hickey
Nov 05, 2020
Melodie Robinson on the future of NZ sports broadcasting
Oct 22, 2020
A newcomer’s view from the press gallery, with Justin Giovannetti
Oct 16, 2020
Sido Kitchin is launching four new magazine titles this year
Oct 08, 2020
Where are the Audiences? with NZ On Air's Cameron Harland
Sep 18, 2020
The most eye-opening bits from NZ On Air’s new Where are the Audiences? report
Sep 03, 2020
How The Bulletin gets made, with Alex Braae
Aug 26, 2020
The Fold podcast: Gaurav Sharma on the communities NZ’s media doesn’t serve
Jul 07, 2020
Stuff CEO and owner Sinead Boucher on how she bought it for $1
Jun 24, 2020
The Fold podcast: Bailey Mackey takes Māori storytelling to the world
May 08, 2020
The Fold: How will Covid-19 impact NZ's TV, radio and online news?
Mar 27, 2020
RNZ special: Toby Manhire on the Concert fiasco, the case for a youth channel and the TVNZ maybe-merger
Feb 21, 2020
Exit interview: Newshub's Hal Crawford on Weldon, Paul Henry and the truth about TV ratings
Jan 26, 2020
The Fold: Sinead Boucher on reinventing Stuff – and why they are conscientious objectors to Facebook
Nov 27, 2019