The Fold - podcast cover

The Fold

The Spinoffwww.thespinoff.co.nz
Conversations about the intersections of media, culture and technology in New Zealand, hosted by Duncan Greive, founder of The Spinoff.
Download Metacast podcast app
Podcasts are better in Metacast mobile app
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more

Episodes

Sean Plunket is platforming himself

After abruptly leaving Magic Talk last year, veteran broadcaster Sean Plunket did something unusual: he started his own radio station. The Platform will be all digital, and has recruited some high profile stars, including Michael Laws and Martin Devlin. What unifies them is a sense that they all feel like the debate in New Zealand has grown too narrow for their taste – and a belief that there is an audience for views which have become far less visible on our major media platforms. Learn more abo...

Feb 07, 202248 min

Dallas Gurney on how Today FM will be different

As the director of news and talk at MediaWorks, Dallas Gurney is responsible for overseeing the launch of Today FM, the company’s new talk radio brand set to replace Magic Talk and, they hope, offer a viable alternative to talk radio giant Newstalk ZB. He joins Duncan Greive to talk about why MediaWorks decided to scrap Magic Talk, the long-term vision behind Today FM and the contentious ERA decision keeping Tova O’Brien off the air until mid-March. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...

Jan 30, 202246 min

Summer reissue: Emma Espiner on Getting Better

The Fold is taking a short break over summer. We'll be back with new episodes soon, but until then here's one of our favourites from 2021. Emma Espiner is a writer, commentator, podcaster and doctor. She won Opinion Writer of the Year at the Voyager Media Awards in 2020, the same year she completed her medical degree – her podcast about that final year as a Māori med student navigating New Zealand's inequitable health system, Getting Better, was then named Best Narrative Podcast at the 2021 Voya...

Jan 23, 202245 min

Summer reissue: Lucy Blakiston on building SYSCA

The Fold is taking a short break over summer. We'll be back with new episodes soon, but until then here's one of our favourites from 2021. Lucy Blakiston is one of three young New Zealand women behind Shit You Should Care About, a media company built around an Instagram account which was started in 2018 to break down the barriers of entry to news and issues. The account now has over three million followers, and the company is branching out into podcasts and the new web series Extremely Online. L...

Jan 09, 202237 min

Summer reissue: Derek Cheng would rather be climbing

The Fold is taking a short break over summer. We'll be back with new episodes soon, but until then here's one of our favourites from 2021. While most press gallery journalists go to sleep and dream of politics, NZ Herald's Derek Cheng has another true love: climbing. Duncan first met him at a press gallery party, where he was barefoot, cooking up sausages on a barbecue, and since learning of the journalist’s intense passion for climbing, has been intrigued to find out more. In this episode Derek...

Dec 26, 202131 min

The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2021

Hosted by Gone By Lunchtime’s Toby Manhire and featuring representatives from The Real Pod, The Fold, Nē? and Dietary Requirements, SUPERPOD 2021 is the crossover podcast event we’ve been waiting all year for. Join us as we relive the highs and lows and heroes and villains of the longest, shortest year in living memory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 21, 20211 hr 5 min

2021 in review: the year in Aotearoa media

In the final episode for 2021, The Fold enters monopod formation as Duncan Greive attempts to summarise the last 12 months in the New Zealand media industry. What were the biggest stories, strongest trends and most significant changes, how have all the big players been performing and what does it all mean? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 12, 202146 min

Guy Williams on making New Zealand Today into a podcast

Comedian Guy Williams became a household name in New Zealand off the back of his regular appearances on Jono and Ben, and has remained on television in a “volunteer journalist” capacity on his own show New Zealand Today. That show now has a spinoff podcast of the same name, which Williams is co-hosting with former guest Karen Hill of viral “wants her $20 back” fame. He joins Duncan Greive to talk about making the show, why a podcast is his logical next step as a “mediocre white man”, and his fri...

Dec 05, 202140 min

Dan Buckingham on the ‘forgotten diversity’ of disability

Former Wheel Blacks captain Dan Buckingham started out as a researcher and presenter for TVNZ’s long-running disability docuseries Attitude in 2008. Now he’s the CEO of Attitude Pictures and chair of The Attitude Trust, which hosts the annual Attitude Awards. He joined Duncan Greive to talk about on screen representation for disability, which has been described internationally as the “forgotten diversity”, and about Attitude’s new primetime series Down For Love coming to TVNZ next year. Learn mo...

Nov 28, 202136 min

TVNZ's Cate Slater on what's coming in 2022

Cate Slater is the director of content at TVNZ, which last week held its upfronts announcing what’s in store for next year. She joined Duncan Greive to talk about the organisation’s Aotearoatanga journey, a 2022 content schedule with an emphasis on local drama over international reality TV franchises, the rise of digital and OnDemand and the legacy of outgoing CEO Kevin Kenrick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 21, 202137 min

Discovery’s Glen Kyne on the future of Three

Glen Kyne is the SVP and general manager of Discovery ANZ, the new owners of Three. Last week the company had their first ever upfronts revealing what the channel and its wider ecosystem will look like in 2022 and beyond. He joins Duncan to discuss all the big talking points. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 14, 202135 min

Bonus chat: What’s going on at Three?

In a very special The Fold / The Real Pod crossover episode, Duncan is joined by Jane Yee to delve into the first ever Discovery upfronts, in which Three’s new owner just announced a bunch of new shows, two new channels and a very reality TV-heavy new direction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 09, 202123 min

Ahmed Osman on representation on NZ screens

Though he's lived in New Zealand for more than two decades, Ahmed Osman (Third Culture Minds) struggles to remember ever seeing anybody who looked like him on the screen here. The Somali-New Zealander joins Duncan Greive to talk about how diversity and representation are handled when it comes to media funding, the flow-on consequences that has and the opportunities we’re missing out on as a result. They also discuss Kelvin Taylor’s recent story on The Spinoff: How it feels to be an African-Kiwi ...

Nov 07, 202131 min

Everybody loves Coffee News

Rudy Kokx is the director of Coffee News New Zealand. In this episode he joins Duncan for a chat about how this ubiquitous publication gets made, and their recent decision to get off Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 31, 202129 min

Bailey Mackey on making the Vaxathon

Bailey Mackey is the CEO of Pango Productions, the production company behind last Saturday’s eight-hour live Vaxathon. He joins The Fold to tell the story of how they pulled it all together in a little over a week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 22, 202130 min

Hal Crawford on the Facebook Files

Returning guest Hal Crawford (Crawford Media) joins The Fold for a discussion about Facebook in light of the Wall Street Journal’s recent Facebook Files investigation. What did they reveal, and what can be done about it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 17, 202154 min

Head High and the future of locally made TV drama

Tim Worrall and Miriama McDowell are two of the key creatives behind Head High, a critically acclaimed and pioneering drama which just wrapped its second season on Three. The weird news is, instead of discussing where the series might go next, we’re talking about why it just got cancelled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 13, 202140 min

Toby Morris on Dad Man Walking and comics journalism

Toby Morris’s comics (The Side Eye, The Pencilsword) have been making an impact in New Zealand for some time, but his collaborations with Dr Siouxsie Wiles communicating public health messages around the Covid-19 pandemic went truly global. Released under Creative Commons, these illustrations have been used by governments worldwide and ultimately the World Health Organisation. At the same time as all this, along with becoming The Spinoff’s creative director and starting Daylight Creative, he als...

Oct 03, 202133 min

Samson Samasoni on reaching Pasifika audiences

Samson Samasoni started his career as a journalist in the 1980s, went to work for the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs, then had a long and fascinating career in communications around the world, working in locations as diverse as Saudi Arabia and Tokelau before returning home to specialise in communicating to Pasifika. In this episode, we discuss NZ on Air's Where are the Audiences research, the Covid-19 vaccine rollout and how government and media can better communicate with modern Aotearoa. ...

Sep 19, 202147 min

Janet Wilson on Judith Collins’ National Party

Janet Wilson is an experienced journalist and public relations consultant who last year took on the role of chief press secretary for the National Party during their ill-fated election campaign, working first under the leadership of Todd Muller, then Judith Collins. In this episode she joins Duncan Greive for an explosive interview in which she discusses Collins' leadership as a threat to the party's very existence, and assesses both the bizarre 2020 campaign (the prayer, the Ponsonby Road walk)...

Sep 14, 202137 min

Big shocks in 2021's 'Where are the Audiences?' research

MONOPOD! An in-depth look into some shocking new audience data – and what it means for all of us. Duncan Greive goes solo this week, taking a deep breath before diving into the latest edition of 'Where are the Audiences?', a fascinating annual piece of research commissioned by NZ On Air. It's 46 gushing minutes which seek to try and understand what has happened to our media consumption over the last seven years. The Fold couldn’t be made without the support of The Spinoff Members. Find out how t...

Sep 08, 202157 min

Dylan Cleaver on the changing shape of sports journalism

Dylan Cleaver is one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed sports writers, with over 25 years experience at the NZ Herald. A couple of months ago he left the Herald to start The Bounce, a new thrice-weekly sports newsletter, via Substack. He joined Duncan Greive over Zoom this week to talk through the move, how sports journalism has changed in recent years and his investigations into the hidden toll of head injuries in rugby. The Fold couldn’t be made without the support of The Spinoff Members. Find o...

Sep 05, 202139 min

Danyl Mclauchlan on postjournalism

Danyl Mclauchlan is a Wellington based writer. He wrote politics blog The Dim Post back in the blogging era and now writes regularly for The Spinoff, where his recent review of Andrey Mir’s book Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers. The media after Trump: manufacturing anger and polarization was published. In this episode he joins Duncan Greive over Zoom to discuss the concept of postjournalism, engaging with the world of effective altruism, Simon Bridges’ new book and more. LINKS Things f...

Aug 29, 202157 min

Creator Series: Jon Wild on making NZ's best reality TV

Jon Wild was the series producer and director of The Apprentice Aotearoa – an old-fashioned one-night-a-week series in the era of multi night reality behemoths, and one of the most fun-to-watch New Zealand reality TV series in a long time. In this episode he tells Duncan Greive about making that show, as well as New Zealand's Next Top Model and The Bachelor, the importance of casting and the way the New Zealand character feeds into our reality TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

Aug 08, 202135 min

Creator Series: Emma Espiner on Getting Better

Emma Espiner is a writer, commentator, podcaster and doctor. She won Opinion Writer of the Year at the Voyager Media Awards in 2020, the same year she completed her medical degree – her podcast about that final year as a Māori med student navigating New Zealand's inequitable health system, Getting Better, was then named Best Narrative Podcast at the 2021 Voyagers. In this episode she talks with Duncan Greive about making Getting Better, the way the media interacts with healthcare and how it’s be...

Aug 01, 202144 min

Creator Series: Dan Ahwa on Viva’s unique place in NZ media

Dan Ahwa is the creative director at Viva magazine, the NZ Herald’s fashion, beauty, food and wellbeing publication. The title has been running since 1998 and stands out among other newspaper-inserted magazines for how well-crafted and curated it is, with its own distinct aesthetic and values. In this episode, Dan talks to Duncan about surviving the pandemic cutbacks last year to launch a new glossy quarterly publication, holding space for lifestyle content within a predominantly news-focused or...

Jul 25, 202137 min

Creator Series: Troy Kingi’s 10 10 10 project

Musician and actor Troy Kingi is half way through an ambitious mission to release 10 albums in 10 different genres over 10 years. He joins Duncan Greive on The Fold this week to talk about the project and making his latest album Black Sea Golden Ladder, his mixed feelings about appearing on The Masked Singer NZ earlier this year, the changing music economy and what it’s like being an artist during this era of closed borders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 18, 202134 min

Creator Series: Lucy Blakiston from Shit You Should Care About

Lucy Blakiston is one of three young New Zealand women behind Shit You Should Care About, a media company built around an Instagram account which was started in 2018 to break down the barriers of entry to news and issues. The account now has over three million followers, and the company is branching out into podcasts and the new web series Extremely Online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 11, 202136 min

Creator Series: Qiane Matata-Sipu on Nuku Women and protecting Ihumātao

Qiane Matata-Sipu is a journalist, photographer, podcaster, entrepreneur and activist. In 2019 she launched Nuku Women, a multimedia project with the ambitious goal of interviewing and photographing 100 indigenous wāhine. As one of the founders and spokespeople of SOUL (Save Our Unique Landscape) she has also played an important role in occupying and protecting Ihumātao. In this episode she reflects on what she learned being on the other side of the media equation and what makes Nuku such a hard...

Jul 04, 202136 min

Creator Series: James Roque on selling his comedy special

Duncan Greive speaks to comedian James Roque about filming his hugely ambitious crowdfunded stand-up hour Boy Mestizo. He is unashamedly trying to sell it to Netflix, and believes its examination of his identity as a Filipino New Zealander will have appeal far beyond these shores. He also talks about being part of the guessing panel on The Masked Singer NZ, the absence left by Jono and Ben – and why New Zealand needs its own late night show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

Jun 27, 202142 min
For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android
Open in Metacast