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MediaOctober 9, 2020

The Fold: Sido Kitchin is launching not one but four new magazine titles this year

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Image: Tina Tiller

Former Woman’s Day and NZ Woman’s Weekly editor Sido Kitchin joins The Fold’s Duncan Greive to talk about starting School Road Publishing and launching a whole new stable of magazines following the collapse of Bauer Media.

Sido Kitchin loves telling New Zealand women’s stories. An important figure in the magazine industry, she edited Woman’s Day until earlier this year when the collapse of Bauer Media brought it and a lot of other popular titles to an abrupt end.

The six months since have been a period of regeneration for the magazine industry, with a number of new independent publishers, titles and websites blooming. Perhaps no one has moved as hard and fast as Sido Kitchin, who has set up School Road Publishing and established not just one but four new titles – Woman, Haven, Thrive and Scout.

She joined The Fold host Duncan Greive in the studio this week for a chat about this tumultuous year, what it was like starting with a blank canvas and why the first issue of Woman is more true to her vision than any magazine she’s ever edited before – plus what it was like being a TV publicist in the golden era of big-budget broadcast television.

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Photo: Jackie Meiring
Photo: Jackie Meiring

PodcastsOctober 1, 2020

How to launch a print magazine in the time of coronavirus

Photo: Jackie Meiring
Photo: Jackie Meiring

Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand. This week he’s joined by Simon Farrell-Green, founder of Here magazine.

This podcast has always had a special interest in the ways people have managed to keep making things happen while the world seems to be falling apart. This week’s guest did just that when he crowdfunded and launched a new magazine title during a time of extreme uncertainty; a time when magazines were effectively banned in New Zealand.

Simon Farrell-Green will be familiar to many listeners from his years of food reviews and feature writing for Metro, bfm, Eat Here Now and Kia Ora, and was also the editor of Home magazine. When Home’s publisher, Bauer Media, folded in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, Simon wasted little time in launching a new title of his own with the backing of a successful Boosted campaign.

The magazine, Here, is a colourful and fun celebration of the magazine format that acts as a time capsule of design and these times. With the second issue out now, Simon joined Business is Boring to talk about the journey.

Download now, subscribe through Apple Podcasts, or visit Business is Boring on Acast or Spotify

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