The Fold
The Spinoff • Business, News
The Spinoff • Business, News
The Fold
The Spinoff • Business, News
The Spinoff • Business, News

About

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

Episodes

  • 2025 in review: NZ’s major media companies’ years, ranked from worst to best
    Glen Kyne and Duncan Greive cast their minds back to rank the performances of New Zealand’s major media companies in 2025.
  • The Australian big tech revolution rolls on
    Publisher and writer Tim Burrowes returns to The Fold to update Duncan Greive on the profound change taking place in Australian media’s regulatory landscape.
  • The deals that defined the year in local media – plus predictions for 2026
    Live from The Spinoff HQ in Morningside, Duncan Greive hosts a panel conversation with PHD New Zealand’s Helen Brown, Rachel Bayfield and James Davidson. Together they review the year in local media, before casting their predictions for 2026.
  • Monopod: some stray takes on the 2025 NZ Screen Awards
    Duncan Greive goes solo to deliver a quick response to the NZ Screen Awards.
  • An explosive media week: scandals at the BBC and Meta – and Australia takes on big tech (again)
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  • The story of a long, strange decade in media + has the BSA fixed trust in news?
    The Spinoff’s head of audience Anna Rawhiti-Connell joins Duncan Greive to discuss the latest piece of NZ on Air’s Where Are the Audiences research focused on children’s media in Aotearoa.
  • Notes on an epic journalistic blunder – and succession planning at RNZ and TVNZ
    Toby Manhire joins Duncan Greive to discuss a very unfortunate case of journalistic mistaken identity.
  • What’s going on with Māori news media?
    The Spinoff’s Liam Rātana joins Dunan Grieve to discuss the seismic changes coming for the Māori media landscape.
  • The BSA vs The Platform: why this shapes as a generationally important battle
    Glen Kyne returns to The Fold to discuss the background, stakes and possible outcome of The Platform’s feud with the BSA.
  • Has The Life of a Showgirl finally broken Taylor’s spell?
    Duncan Greive is joined by The Spinoff’s Alex Casey and Lyric Waiwiri-Smith, two longtime Swift fans, to discuss an album that promised much but felt like a letdown to many.
  • Agencies and out-of-home: how they learned to love each other
    Duncan Greive is joined by Kurt Malcolm from JCDecaux NZ and Richard Thompson from D3 to discuss the unique brand-building possibilities of out-of-home, and where the thriving sector is headed.
  • How is student media surviving – even thriving – in print?
    Nina Brown, current editor of Critic Te Arohi, and Joel MacManus, former Critic editor as well as The Spinoff’s Wellington editor, join Duncan Greive to discuss the evolution of the magazine and the state of student media.
  • How JCDecaux is unlocking creative advertising by studying the human brain
    Duncan Greive is joined by Victoria Parsons from JCDecaux NZ and Peter Pynter from Neuro-Insight to discuss marketing, insights and the human brain.
  • Cracking the code: making news work for Gen Z with Now You Know
    The media industry is obsessed with how to reach young people, often concluding that Gen Z is "fickle" and unreachable. But The Spinoff's social first explainer series, Now You Know, is proving otherwise.
  • Lightning round: Six quick takes on Grenon-NZME, Stuff vs the cops, RNZ’s troubles + more
    Glen Kyne rejoins Duncan Greive to smash through six of the biggest stories in media, all in six minutes or less (at least in theory).
  • Charlie Kirk and Tom Phillips show boundary collapse between the internet and real life
    Two tense topics have dominated this week's news. Anna Rawhiti-Connell joins Duncan Greive to discuss the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and the swirl of rumours surrounding Tom Phillips, the Marokopa father who died last week after three years on the run with his children.
  • Results season! Breaking down and picking a winner from TVNZ, Sky and NZME
    Glen Kyne returns to The Fold to analyse the annual or half-yearly results from TVNZ, Sky and NZME. TVNZ surprised with an unexpectedly healthy profit, NZME emerged from a bruising board battle and Sky (finally) got its rugby deal. Kyne has it all covered – and picks a clear winner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
  • System1's Andrew Tindall on myths and truths in modern advertising
    System1’s Andrew Tindall joins Duncan Greive on The Fold, in partnership with JCDecaux, to discuss the story all that research tells.
  • Sky CEO Sophie Moloney on the NZ rugby and Three deals and the depth of its moat
    Sky CEO Sophie Moloney joins Duncan Greive to discuss the immense challenges of her last five years in charge, and why things are finally looking up.
  • RNZ’s Paul Thompson on that bombshell radio report
    The longest-tenured leader in New Zealand media joins Duncan Greive on The Fold for a frank discussion about the state of RNZ.