Zara Seidler: "For a long time, youth news has been deeply subjective"Listen now (25 min) | Zara Seidler has taken The Daily Aus in a different direction from most youth news publishers: it’s straight-down-the-line…

November 2022

New Zealand's grand experiment in public media deserves worldwide attention - as long as it gets off the runway without blowing up.

October 2022

"Talk" supersedes podcasting: Spotify's Ben Watts on getting people to listenSpotify’s Head of Studios ANZ Ben Watts has always been fixated on audio, whether music or spoken word, and now he’s bringing the two together at the…

September 2022

In this week’s podcast I spoke to Lucy Blakiston, the founder of tearaway youth publishing success Shit You Should Care About, and we briefly touched on…
Taking the world one post at a time: Lucy BlakistonListen now (28 min) | Lucy Blakiston might be young (24), but she’s been publishing to big audiences for the best part of a decade. The force behind…

August 2022

No advice, but plenty of help: Tim Griggs and the news missionListen now (25 min) | Tim Griggs is the force behind Blue Engine Collaborative, a company that has run accelerator programs all over the world helping…
We have in our minds the idea that somehow we are in a transitional time. That there will be a moment some time in the future when we will have arrived…
Genevieve Jacobs on "cracking local"Listen now | Genevieve Jacobs believes she and her company, Region Media, have cracked the secret to doing local publishing profitably. In this Crawford…

July 2022

Guardian Australia and New Zealand Managing Director Dan Stinton has revealed the creative messaging of a big marketing campaign that he hopes will…
How to make a buck while sticking to the mission: Dan StintonListen now | Dan Stinton is the Managing Director of The Guardian in Australia and New Zealand and is forthright in this interview about the main thing…

June 2022

Data from the new Australian Digital News Report shows that most people prefer to get their digital news in text format. This won't surprise anyone who…
The Unwilled Writer Part 2Students can now generate plausible essays for a less than a cent with the click of a button. How do teachers deal with that? Something has to change…