The Fold
Episodes
Ali Mau on #MeTooNZ, talkback radio and the New Zealand music industry's reckoning
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition of The Spinoff’s media podcast The Fold, Duncan Greive is joined by Ali Mau, Stuff senior journalist and creator of New Zealand's ow...
Summer reissue: Media, money and the government, with Bernard Hickey
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Fold is taking a break over the summer. We'll be back with new episodes soon, but until then we're republishing some of our favourite interviews o...
Summer reissue: Sinead Boucher on buying Stuff for $1
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Fold is taking a break over the summer. We'll be back with new episodes soon, but until then we're republishing some of our favourite interviews o...
Summer reissue: Gaurav Sharma, The Indian Times
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Fold is taking a break over the summer holidays. We'll be back in the new year, but until then we're republishing some of our favourite interviews...
The wildfire that was 2020 for NZ media, reviewed
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic put unbearable pressure on New Zealand’s media this year, but also saw it gain larger and more engaged audiences than ever before. In a...
The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2020
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pour yourself some eggnog and join the hosts of The Spinoff’s podcast network for our annual Superpod round up of the year that was. Representing G...
Turning words into action, with Laura O’Connell Rapira
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The outgoing director of grassroots community campaigning organisation ActionStation joins Duncan Greive to talk about a busy few years in the job. A...
Introducing Coming Home: Like nothing we've ever seen before
22 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode one of Coming Home, a new five-part podcast series from The Spinoff podcast network, in partnership with Kiwibank. We're sharing it wi...
The boss of all rugby, with Mark Robinson
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
NZ Rugby is in a fascinating situation at the moment, with some big calls to be made over the coming years. The man in charge of making them joins Dun...
Media, money and the government, with Bernard Hickey
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Fold, journalist Bernard Hickey joins host Duncan Greive for a wide-ranging chat about the challenges faced by New Zealand media and ...
Melodie Robinson on the future of NZ sports broadcasting
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From winning two world cups with the Black Ferns to heading up TVNZ’s sports and events department, Melodie Robinson’s career has been one full of...
A newcomer’s view from the press gallery, with Justin Giovannetti
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Spinoff’s new(ish) political editor Justin Giovannetti joins Duncan Greive to share his impressions from a hectic first six months on the job –...
Sido Kitchin is launching four new magazine titles this year
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Former NZ Women’s Weekly editor Sido Kitchin joins The Fold’s Duncan Greive to talk about starting School Road Publishing and launching a whole ne...
Where are the Audiences? with NZ On Air's Cameron Harland
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Fold host Duncan Greive speaks to NZ On Air’s new chief executive Cameron Harland about his first six months in the job and the findings of the ...
The most eye-opening bits from NZ On Air’s new Where are the Audiences? report
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas has arrived early for The Fold host Duncan Greive – this week NZ On Air released Where are the Audiences?, a biannual survey of audience b...
How The Bulletin gets made, with Alex Braae
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of New Zealand’s most voracious consumers of local news media joins Duncan Greive to reveal the secrets behind his popular daily newsletter. Mo...
The Fold podcast: Gaurav Sharma on the communities NZ’s media doesn’t serve
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The associate editor of The Indian News joins host Duncan Greive to discuss his belief that New Zealand’s media ignores the quarter of our populatio...
Stuff CEO and owner Sinead Boucher on how she bought it for $1
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It will justifiably be lost in the tumult of Covid-19, but the chaotic couple of weeks which finally saw the end of the Stuff-NZME saga were riveting ...
The Fold podcast: Bailey Mackey takes Māori storytelling to the world
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
He started as a journalist, became a producer, and is now one of NZ’s most successful TV creators. Bailey Mackey joins Duncan Greive on The Fold. T...
The Fold: How will Covid-19 impact NZ's TV, radio and online news?
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Fold podcast returns for March into a media world transformed by the impact of Covid-19. Host Duncan Greive records a monopod to assess its impact...
RNZ special: Toby Manhire on the Concert fiasco, the case for a youth channel and the TVNZ maybe-merger
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In episode three of The Spinoff's media podcast The Fold, host Duncan Greive speaks with Toby Manhire about the RNZ Concert fiasco and whether there's...
Exit interview: Newshub's Hal Crawford on Weldon, Paul Henry and the truth about TV ratings
26 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In episode two of The Spinoff newish media podcast The Fold, host Duncan Greive conducts an exit interview with Hal Crawford, the departing head of Ne...
The Fold: Sinead Boucher on reinventing Stuff – and why they are conscientious objectors to Facebook
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Host Duncan Greive is joined by Stuff CEO Sinead Boucher to discuss the media monster's growth from an experimental website, to its queasy peak and th...