Ensemble’s Rebecca Wadey and Zoe Walker Ahwa, Here’s Simon Farrell-Green and The Fold’s Duncan Greive (Image: The Spinoff)
Ensemble’s Rebecca Wadey and Zoe Walker Ahwa, Here’s Simon Farrell-Green and The Fold’s Duncan Greive (Image: The Spinoff)

MediaJune 10, 2025

The Fold: Bauer, five years on – Ensemble, Here, The Listener and Are Media

Staff writers
Ensemble’s Rebecca Wadey and Zoe Walker Ahwa, Here’s Simon Farrell-Green and The Fold’s Duncan Greive (Image: The Spinoff)
Ensemble’s Rebecca Wadey and Zoe Walker Ahwa, Here’s Simon Farrell-Green and The Fold’s Duncan Greive (Image: The Spinoff)

In a two-part series about the independent publications that rose from the embers of Bauer, The Fold talks to Ensemble co-founders Rebecca Wadey and Zoe Walker Ahwa, Here founder Simon Farrell-Green, Are’s NZ GM Stuart Dick and The Listener editor Kirsty Cameron.

Part one:

New Zealand’s magazine industry suffered a catastrophic event five years ago, when many of the country’s biggest and most famous titles were shut down on a fateful Zoom call. In this episode, Duncan Greive is joined by Rebecca Wadey and Zoe Walker Ahwa, co-founders of Ensemble, to discuss lifestyle media and first joining then leaving Stuff. Then Simon Farrell-Green on why after years editing Home, he decided to leave the title alone and start a new magazine named Here, which turns five years old this month.

Part two:

Are Media was a new company born out of the end of Bauer, taking some of its biggest magazines and running them on a much leaner model. Are’s NZ GM Stuart Dick and The Listener’s editor Kirsty Cameron join Duncan Greive on The Fold to talk about bringing those magazines back to life, and how Cameron revived a title which had lost its way at times in the Bauer years.

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