Netflix’s chilling numbers, and Elon’s new toy

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Netflix’s chilling numbers, and Elon’s new toy

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Apr 27, 2022

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The first of a new quick response format to big breaking media news featuring host, Duncan Greive, tackling two huge media stories of the past week. This week: Netflix’s big miss and Elon Musk taking Twitter private.

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Apr 27, 2022

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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

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Miriyana Alexander on two years of NZ Herald's online subscription model by The Fold
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Sido Kitchin is launching four new magazine titles this year by The Fold
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The most eye-opening bits from NZ On Air’s new Where are the Audiences? report by The Fold
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RNZ special: Toby Manhire on the Concert fiasco, the case for a youth channel and the TVNZ maybe-merger by The Fold
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Olivia Carville on covering big tech at one of the world’s greatest magazines: She started her career in journalism in her hometown of Ōtautahi, three months before the quakes. Four years later she left and effectively restarted from scratch in Canada, only to do that all over again a few years later in New York. This combination of doggedness, ambition and a willingness to humble herself in pursuit of true greatness has now landed Olivia Carville at Businessweek, the flagship of global business media giant Bloomberg. She tells her incredible story to Duncan Greive, and gives a masterclass in how to get to the top of longform journalism along the way.<br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> by The Fold
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Special Group founder Tony Bradbourne on the rapidly changing world of advertising by The Fold
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Turning words into action, with Laura O’Connell Rapira by The Fold
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Exit interview: Newshub's Hal Crawford on Weldon, Paul Henry and the truth about TV ratings by The Fold
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Media, money and the government, with Bernard Hickey by The Fold
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Cam Wallace on his first three months as MediaWorks CEO by The Fold
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Broadcasting minister Kris Faafoi on funding NZ journalism by The Fold
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Where are the Audiences? with NZ On Air's Cameron Harland by The Fold
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Creator Series: Qiane Matata-Sipu on Nuku Women and protecting Ihumātao by The Fold
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Ali Mau on #MeTooNZ, talkback radio and the New Zealand music industry's reckoning by The Fold
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Stuff CEO and owner Sinead Boucher on how she bought it for $1 by The Fold
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The wildfire that was 2020 for NZ media, reviewed by The Fold
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Guy Williams on making New Zealand Today into a podcast by The Fold
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Creator Series: Derek Cheng on balancing a press gallery job with a climbing obsession by The Fold
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Another dark day for NZ media, and the plan? Nothing.: Duncan Greive reacts to the week's devastating NZ media closures, asking how is it we are all just sitting here letting this pillar of democracy cave in? by The Fold
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