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The Fold: Sinead Boucher on reinventing Stuff – and why they are conscientious objectors to Facebook

The Fold: Sinead Boucher on reinventing Stuff – and why they are conscientious objectors to Facebook

FromThe Fold


The Fold: Sinead Boucher on reinventing Stuff – and why they are conscientious objectors to Facebook

FromThe Fold

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Length:
64 minutes
Released:
Nov 27, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Host Duncan Greive is joined by Stuff CEO Sinead Boucher to discuss the media monster's growth from an experimental website, to its queasy peak and the current more purpose-driven iteration. Along the way she revealed a number of fascinating insights into the reality of running a news organisation at scale in 2019, including the fact that of the 150,000 comments readers attempt to post each month, a full third are rejected for violations. This brutal task is accomplished by human moderators – in striking contrast to the laissez faire attitude of Facebook. Plus her thoughts on the sale of Three, the ComCom decisions and the proposed RNZ/TVNZ merger.
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Released:
Nov 27, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Conversations about the intersections of media, culture and technology in New Zealand, hosted by Duncan Greive, founder of The Spinoff. Brought to you by The Spinoff Podcast Network in partnership with Ooh!media