The Fold Podcast
1) 2025 in review: The top five global media giants' years, ranked from worst to best
Glen Kyne and Duncan Greive complete the second part of The Fold’s 2025 finale, this time picking and ranking the five best performing global media players. The podcast was recorded in the immediate a...Show More
2) 2025 in review: NZ’s major media companies’ years, ranked from worst to best
Glen Kyne joins Duncan Greive for a two-part finale, ranking the performances of New Zealand’s scale media companies. They take on MediaWorks, NZME, RNZ, Sky, Stuff and TVNZ, based on public facing me...Show More
3) The Australian big tech revolution rolls on
2025 has been a year of profound change in the regulatory landscape for Australian media. There is a social media ban for under 16s, which goes live next week. There are new local content spending rul...Show More
4) The deals that defined the year in local media – plus predictions for 2026
Last week we kicked off a new partnership with New Zealand's leading media agency, PHD, which will partner with The Spinoff and The Fold on a series of podcasts on the increasingly complex intersectio...Show More
5) Monopod: some stray takes on the 2025 NZ Screen Awards
Duncan Greive goes solo to deliver a quick response to the NZ Screen Awards, which fused film with television in a way which showed a lot of promise while also needing some serious tightening. There w...Show More
6) An explosive media week: scandals at the BBC and Meta – and Australia takes on big tech (again)
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7) The story of a long, strange decade in media + has the BSA fixed trust in news?
2025 sees the release of the latest in The Fold’s obsession: NZ on Air’s Where Are the Audiences research. This time the focus is on children’s media – the third time this subject has been assessed, f...Show More
8) Notes on an epic journalistic blunder – and succession planning at RNZ and TVNZ
The Spinoff editor-at-large Toby Manhire joins Duncan Greive this week to discuss a very unfortunate case of journalistic mistaken identity. Former Herald reporter Bevan Hurley had an explosive exclus...Show More
9) What’s going on with Māori news media?
Liam Rātana, editor of The Spinoff Ātea, joins Duncan Greive on The Fold to discuss a piece he wrote last week, about some seismic changes to the Māori media landscape. Two iconic shows, Te Karere and...Show More
10) The BSA vs The Platform: why this shapes as a generationally important battle
Glen Kyne returns to The Fold to discuss the background, stakes and possible outcome of a small battle that sets up a much larger question: how do we regulate the internet? It's one successive governm...Show More