The Fold

Last month Guy Montgomery played four sold out nights at Q Theatre, pulling almost 2000 people in the process, while his original format show Guy Mont-Spelling Bee is a bonafide hit. He’s a decade into his career and has figured out who he is and how to do his jokes. He joins Duncan Greive on The Fold to explain how it all happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Duncan Greive addresses the fallout from revelations RNZ has for years been running wire copy altered to have pro-Russia and China slants. He also looks at the legacy of departing Stuff CEO Sinead Boucher, and explains why The Fold will be getting a little less time sensitive for the next while. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He started on lowest rung at Saatchis in Wellington, in charge of absorbing TV ratings using a dot matrix printer. By the time Matt Bale left the agency he started, MBM, in 2022, the media business had transformed. He chose to lean into that, studying AI at Stanford, and joins Duncan Greive to talk about his career, and what the next wave of the generative internet might look like. Learn more abou...

For a very special episode, Duncan Greive analyses the Safer Online Services and Media Platforms, an obscure “discussion document” which contains a bold idea: regulate the internet in the same way we do legacy media. He is joined by The Spinoff staff writer Shanti Mathias to explain the context, then The Bulletin editor Anna Rawhiti-Connell to analyse its implications. Learn more about your ad cho...

She seems to have mastered acting, writing and directing after two decades creating film and TV, but what's next for Madeleine Sami? She joins host Duncan Greive to talk about the institutions which made her and her two new original series airing in June. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the political and economic gravities pulling in various directions, the finance minister was tasked with providing support for the hardest hit by the cost-of-living crisis without heaping sugar in an already high-inflation sauce. And on top of that, it's an election year. To assess whether Grant Robertson managed to thread that needle, Gone By Lunchtime’s Toby Manhire sits down with When the...

10 years ago, Joel Little was an ex-pop punk singer who’d set up a small studio to record music for commercials. By the end of the year he'd produced a #1 single in the US, and since his enormous success with Lorde’s Pure Heroine album he has worked with a galaxy of stars. Now he’s set up Big Fan, a community space comprising studios and a venue, run by Savina Fountain, a veteran of Aotearoa's liv...

Has any technology ever caused as much disquiet as generative AI? Duncan Greive talks to veteran tech journalist Peter Griffin about how this new generation of AI works, why it has scientists, philosophers and politicians spooked, and its implications for media industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yesterday Stuff finally announced paywalls for three of its powerhouse regional mastheads, while keeping the big Stuff platform free to all. It’s a bold experiment in making regional news the centre of a paid proposition, and runs contra local and international trends. Stuff chief content officer Jo Norris joins The Fold to explain the thinking to Duncan Greive. Learn more about your ad choices. V...

New Zealand’s most famous demographer, professor Paul Spoonley, joins Duncan Greive to talk about the incredible changes to New Zealand’s makeup over the past 20 years, and how they are expected to accelerate in years to come. He also discusses a new study from The Fold sponsor oOh! Media which looks at post-Covid changes to mobility, hyper-ageing and the ethnic makeup of the country. Spoonley unp...

Since uniting on Native Affairs during the rise of Māori Television, Mihi Forbes and Annabelle Lee-Mather have formed one of the longest-lasting creative partnerships in Aotearoa journalism. They join Duncan Greive to reflect on their trailblazing careers, taking in 3 News, RNZ, The Hui and now Aotearoa Media Collective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Its difficult to do your first podcast, but doing it daily is a whole other beast. Damien Venuto is the host of the New Zealand Herald's podcast 'The Front Page' which celebrates its first birthday this month. He joins Duncan Greive to talk about what it takes to host a daily podcast, and how he has grown into the role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live episode: For the 5th birthday of The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s trailblazing daily email newsletter, its founding editor Alex Braae sat down with its current editor Anna Rawhiti-Connell at a special event for The Spinoff’s members. The pair were interviewed by The Spinoff’s editor Madeleine Chapman, and the trio provide a bunch of fascinating insights into just how that product is made, and what...

After just a year of broadcasting, Today FM hosts Tova O'Brien and Duncan Garner took over the airwaves this morning to dramatically declare that Mediaworks was considering axing the fledgling radio brand. Duncan Greive sits down in this bonus monopod to discuss the potential future that faces Today FM's employees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He's got one of the most prestigious journalism careers in the country, but RNZ’s Guyon Espiner is not slowing down anytime soon. His new series "Mate, Comrade, Brother" on political lobbying in New Zealand has already exposed a number of troubling incidents. He sits down with Duncan Greive to discuss why he supports lobbying regulation, along with a look back over a rich career in forward-thinkin...

The early days of Māori Television were chaotic. After the founding CE was fired and imprisoned for fraud, Dr. Jim Mather was tapped to lead the fledging broadcaster. An account with no previous media experience, he was an unlikely choice for the role, but ended up leading the channel through some of its greatest years. He joins Duncan Greive to talk his outstanding career in consultancy and gover...

Animation studio Mukpuddy are creating cartoons that are loved around the world, and stand on the precipice of a monster global adaptation of Spike Milligan’s 'Badjelly the Witch'. But this moment did not come easy. Mukpuddy co-founders Ryan Cooper and Alex Leighton join Duncan Greive to tell the wild story of their journey from the basement to the big time and how they survived an inhospitable lo...

Meet the mastermind behind the ABC's astounding digital transformation. Gaven Morris oversaw the entire news division of the ABC during a transition from a public radio and TV behemoth, to a market leading digital operation. He talks with Duncan Greive to share what he learned in that process, and give his advice on what the future of RNZ, TVNZ and NZ on Air should look like, now that the public m...

How did Aotearoa's most-awarded magazine survive through some of the biggest obstacles in media history? New Zealand Geographic publisher James Frankham talks with Duncan Greive about the collapse of Bauer Media, taking the government to court, and the brilliant revenue model which helps NZ Geo turn a rare profit in print. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How does a young New Zealander end up amongst televisions big leagues? While production assisting on shows like Workaholics, Georgia Rippin saw the potential that web-series had when scaled for television. Now, Georgia has created Kold Open, a marketplace which aims to connect web-series creators with big studios that produce content for streaming services. She joins Duncan to talk about the power...

How can companies ensure their advertising dollar is being well spent? Ooh!media is using their fleet of digital bus stop billboards to transform the industry into one of the most responsive and creative forms of advertising available. General manager Nick Vile talks with Duncan about Ooh!media's ability to adapt in a quickly changing market, and why he feels optimistic about the financial year ah...

For nine years he steered the ship he built, but last week Duncan Greive announced his surprise resignation as CEO of The Spinoff. He joins guest host, Jane Yee, to discuss how doing things differently took The Spinoff from an irreverent TV blog to a respected online magazine, and why he's decided to hand over the reins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet the kiwi in charge of some of the worlds biggest brands across Japan, Australia and Aotearoa. Glen Kyne went from running the commercial team at Mediaworks to fostering brands like CNN and HBO in the blink of an eye. He chats with Duncan about the future of the streaming wars, what might happen if the RNZ-TVNZ merger goes through, and what should be done if it doesn't. Learn more about your a...

This week, Duncan takes a break from hosting The Fold to guest star on an episode of The Shit Show. Hosted by Shit You Should Care About founder and personal friend, Lucy Blakiston. They talk Greta Thunberg, the Roanoke disappearance, and of course, AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the wake of Thursday’s astonishing announcement, Duncan Greive sits down with Jacinda Ardern biographer Mad Chapman and Gone By Lunchtime host Toby Manhire to discuss Ardern's complicated relationship with both mainstream and social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices