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Josh Randall in the ring (photo: supplied)
Josh Randall in the ring (photo: supplied)

MediaOctober 16, 2020

The Fold: A newcomer’s view from the press gallery

Josh Randall in the ring (photo: supplied)
Josh Randall in the ring (photo: supplied)

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 – and in New Zealand.

When Justin Giovannetti interviewed for the job of political editor at The Spinoff, from Canada, the world was quite a different place. In the time it took for him to work out his notice with national newspaper The Globe and Mail, a global pandemic shut borders, grounded flights and threw everyone’s plans for the year into disarray.

How Justin made it to New Zealand at all is a story for another podcast. This week on The Fold he joins Duncan Greive to talk about the baptism of fire that has been reporting on New Zealand politics for the first time in the middle of an election year, in the middle of a pandemic.

New Zealand’s press gallery and political reporting style is pretty different to Canada’s – so what have been the weirdest things he’s had to get his head around, and what are his main impressions, as a newcomer, of this punishingly long election campaign?

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Image: Tina Tiller
Image: Tina Tiller

MediaOctober 9, 2020

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

Image: Tina Tiller
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.

Listen here, or download this episode (right click and save). Subscribe via Apple PodcastsRSS or via your favourite podcast provider.

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