''The Spinoff'' is a

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online magazine and news website that was founded in 2014. It is known for current affairs coverage, political and social analysis, and cultural commentary. It earns money through commercial sponsorship and subscriptions. Journalist

Duncan Greive Duncan Greive was born in Auckland in 1979. He is best-known as the founder and managing editor of ''The Spinoff'', a subscriber- and sponsor-funded online magazine based in Auckland. Life and career Greive spent the first 10 years of his life i ...

is its founder, publisher and chief executive officer. The business is owned by Grieve and his wife Nicola, a lawyer at the Serious Fraud Office.

Business model and content

''The Spinoff'' began as a TV blog sponsored by the streaming platform Lightbox: it has expanded to a multi-platform news site that also publishes current affairs newsletters, podcasts and online video series. 'Spinoff Members', offering a range of benefits to subscribers, was launched in 2019. ''The Spinoff'' and the '' New Zealand Herald'' started sharing journalism and content in July 2020. “Our business model is partnership and sponsorship and we make it clear when our content is funded in that way. When our journalists are not writing for a partner, they are writing whatever they want. We give them implicit license because they know what makes good content and we know what our audience is interested in," Greive told business journalist Tash McGill. During the

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in 2020–21, The Spinoff began working with the World Health Organisation (WHO), after a WHO communications officer saw their series of widely shared Covid-19 public health illustrations. These were part of a series of pieces explaining Covid-19, in a collaboration between cartoonist Toby Morris and the microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles. The Spinoff released the pair's Covid illustrations and animations to

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, where they have been picked up by public health services around the world. The illustrations have been published in te reo Māori and English by The Spinoff. In 2019, ''The Spinoff'' received funding from Creative New Zealand to commission articles on contemporary New Zealand art and artists. The art section is edited by New Zealand critics Mark Amery and Megan Dunn.

Staff and contributors

Some of the New Zealand journalists, staff writers, authors, political figures, academics, scientists and illustrators whose work has appeared in The Spinoff: *

* Toby Manhire * Toby Morris * Dr Siouxsie Wiles * Madeleine Chapman *

Steve Braunias Steven Carl Braunias (born 20 June 1960) is a New Zealand author, columnist, journalist and editor. He is the author of 11 books. Early life and family Braunias was born in New Zealand to an Austrian immigrant father and a New Zealand-born mother ...

* Finlay Macdonald * Charlotte Grimshaw *

Ashleigh Young Ashleigh Young (born 1983) is a poet, essayist, editor and creative writing teacher. She received the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2017 for her second book, a collection of personal essays titled ''Can You Tolerate This?'' which also won ...

* Anjum Rahman * Michelle Langstone *

Ranginui Walker Ranginui Joseph Isaac Walker (1 March 1932 – 29 February 2016) was an influential New Zealand academic, author, and activist of Māori and Lebanese descent. "I think he was ''the'' Māori commentator for a very long period," his biographer, ...

Kim Workman Sir Robert Kinsela Workman (born ), commonly known as Kim Workman, is a New Zealand criminal justice advocate. Career Following the Dawn Raids, Workman resigned as a senior sergeant in Lower Hutt police force over his opposition to the racis ...

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer Debbie Anne Ngarewa-Packer is a New Zealand politician, iwi leader and activist. She is a Member of Parliament and co-leader of Te Pāti Māori alongside Rawiri Waititi, and is the leader and chief executive of the Ngāti Ruanui iwi. She s ...

Metiria Turei Metiria Leanne Agnes Stanton Turei (born 1970) is a New Zealand academic and a former New Zealand politician. She was a Member of Parliament from 2002 to 2017 and the female co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2009 to 2017 ...

Briar Grace-Smith Briar Grace-Smith is a screenwriter, director, actor, and short story writer from New Zealand. She has worked as an actor and writer with the Maori theatre cooperative Te Ohu Whakaari and Maori theatre company He Ara Hou. Early plays ''Don't Ca ...

* Chris Tse * Dr Shaun Hendy *

Samuel Te Kani Samuel Te Kani (born 1990) is a Māori author, artist, and sexpert. Early life Te Kani (Ngāpuhi) grew up in Whangārei. Te Kani has described growing up in a Protestant household who were accepting of his early cross-dressing, and that his f ...

''The Spinoff TV''

''The Spinoff TV'' was a television show that covered current affairs, pop culture, and media. It was created as a collaboration between The Spinoff and MediaWorks and hosted by Alex Casey and Leonie Hayden. It aired on Three, premiering on 22 June 2018. The final episode aired on 5 October 2018. Its first season had 16 episodes. It was not renewed for a second season.

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