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The Fold — 351 episodes · page 2 of 4
Australia's media lost more than half its value in five years. How and why?
Emergency monopod: on the seismic media reforms Paul Goldsmith just floated
Bonus episode: How the media covers Waitangi
The extremely online weirdness of the Ted Cruz tweet affair
NZME pivots to video in 2025, the problem with TVNZ's cricket hit and DeepSeek explodes the AI world
We’re back! On Meta going MAGA, TikTok’s perilous future and NZ media in 2025
Summer reissue: Australia has banned social media for under 16s. And that's just the beginning
Summer reissue: Spotify's data alchemist explains the mysteries of music streaming
Summer reissue: NZ on Air's Where are the Audiences 2024 special: legacy media strikes back
Summer reissue: One final Newshub bulletin for Sam Hayes and Mike McRoberts
Summer reissue: Inside the enormous, invisible Roblox economy
Looking back on the media horror movie that was 2024
Inside the wild, complex, obscure and incredibly important world of media buying
Big changes at Whakaata Māori reveal complex challenges for Māori news in the digital era
Australia has banned social media for under 16s. And that's just the beginning
A special edition of The Fold: The future of The Spinoff
A mini-episode about that NZ Herald story – and the new NZ on Air round
One man stares into the abyss
Inside one of the most unexpected hits in NZ media
Mass cuts at TVNZ – but are they enough? And NZME's podcast drama, explained
The non-endorsements, the fate of 1News.co.nz and tremors from small publishers
How The Spinoff's Top 100 NZ TV shows list was made
What does Sky's big win with Max mean?
An aggressive Substack moves to the heart of the creator economy
A new character enters the scene at NZ on Air, and what Matt Heath says about ZB's future
Where to now for TVNZ?
Motion Sickness on their wild journey from Dunedin to Cannes
Google threatens to abandon news in NZ. What comes next?
Could live events be the TV commercials of the future? Spark thinks so
What the hell happened to traffic? + Stuff's pivots and RNZ's regrets
Have advertisers forgotten how to build brands?
More cuts at TVNZ, more growth at RNZ – is the future a news merger?
The man in charge of an era-defining rugby rights negotiation
Assessing two tough years in screen production and news, and Australian media follows NZ media into a hole
Did Spark win its big gaming event? Plus Nielsen drama between Stuff and the NZ Herald
NZME and TVNZ’s contrasting fortunes and the global challenges of public radio
Spotify's data alchemist explains the mysteries of music streaming
NZ on Air's Where are the Audiences 2024 special: legacy media strikes back
A new documentary on the national rugby team due its own breakout era
Stuff's CEO is gone, TVNZ eyes a paywall and sports, and the moral complexity of the surging TAB
Is the Film Commission / NZ on Air merger now inevitable? Plus a meltdown in pay TV – and an intriguing NZME-Sky tie-up
How NZ film's b-grade outlaw king ended up making one for the whole family
Netflix is in a category of one, ThreeNews wobbles and the NZ Herald holds the centre
NEW FORMAT: NZ media news and analysis – with Glen Kyne
Who starts a print magazine during a pandemic?
Behind The Story: Reporting on the news within the news
One final Newshub bulletin for Sam Hayes and Mike McRoberts
A strange trip through the end of Newshub and the beginning of crypto gaming
A powerhouse of NZ film and TV on why the hits are drying up
Toby Manhire on the making of Juggernaut and what we know about Stuff's Three News
Listen Now: episode one of Juggernaut – I Love You, Mr Lange
EA South Auckland news junkie on the end of Newshub and a new era at the Pacific Media Network
10 years of seismic shifts in public relations
A tumultuous year in the life of Shit You Should Care About
What does a near-complete survey of podcasting in New Zealand tell us?
The drums are beating for a big tech levy for NZ – how would it work?
Meta might turn off news in Australia. Here's how one publisher is responding
Introducing Behind the Story: If you love a dog, you must also love disposing of its sh*t
The brief, inglorious reign of Melissa Lee - and how a more powerful minister might change NZ’s media
How the Stuff deal shuffles the NZ media deck
How Madison Reidy built a YouTube smash for the NZ Herald
Another dark day for NZ media, and the plan? Nothing.
Is what's happening to news all advertisers' fault?
After a lifetime on stages and screens, a new Mountain
The startup helping small media get a bigger share of advertising spend
The NZ film legends behind Once Were Warriors and The Convert
How big data and AI are transforming out-of-home – and advertising
On the redundancies at TVNZ, and the awful end of Sunday and Fair Go
There's more Bad News from Leon Wadham
Deep inside the past, present and possible futures of Newshub and Three
On the sudden, shocking end to Newshub and Three as we know it
The quiet genius who connects Havoc and Jeremy Wells to Neighbours at War
How an anonymous Substacker rose to oversee the online future of Newstalk ZB
How to sell red meat in the age of climate change
Inside the enormous, invisible Roblox economy
How Laneway gets it so right, so often
The present and future of social and the creator economy
Summer reissue: Noelle McCarthy on the glory days of bFM and making podcasts
Summer reissue: No one gets the internet quite like Embedded’s Kate Lindsay
Summer reissue: The D*List is media for – not about – people with disabilities
Summer reissue: The ABC’s Gaven Morris on fixing public media in New Zealand
The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2023
Claire Mabey on why books are thriving in the internet age
On the uncertain future for TV
Todd Niall on covering Wayne Brown and the Auckland beat
Simon Denny on making huge, ambivalent artworks about the big tech era
Where has all the music journalism gone?
How Caffeine Daily challenges hostility toward the media
On TVNZ’s Showcase and the state of NZ media
Vincent Heeringa on his pioneering role in sustainability media
How Tom Sainsbury built his career
Michael Donaldson on the golden age of newspapers and building a new print career in craft beer
Emergency episode: The Project NZ facing cancellation
Chelsea Rapp on the potential for NZ’s gaming industry
The case for a minister of culture and creativity
On the election debate I wish we could have had
Bryan Wilmot on how to drive investment with content
ZB+ is great idea – here’s why
Annie Murray on the NZ Film Commission in the age of streaming
Nikki Wright and David Robertson on how to communicate climate change