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The Spinoff
''The Spinoff'' is a New Zealand 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. The business is owned by its founder and former editor Duncan Grieve and his wife Nicola. 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 impl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Magazine
An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to an online only magazine was the computer magazine '' Datamation''. Some online magazines distributed through the World Wide Web call themselves webzines. An ezine (also spelled e- zine) is a more specialized term appropriately used for small magazines and newsletters distributed by any electronic method, for example, by email. Some social groups may use the terms cyberzine and hyperzine when referring to electronically distributed resources. Similarly, some online magazines may refer to themselves as "electronic magazines", "digital magazines", or "e-magazines" to reflect their readership demographics or to capture alternative terms and spellings in online searches. An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, but can usually be dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neighbourly
Neighbourly is a neighbourhood-based social networking website operating in New Zealand. History Origins The website was founded by Casey Eden. It was trialled in two Auckland suburbs, St Heliers and Kohimarama, in December 2013, then launched nationally in June 2015. Fairfax-Nine Entertainment ownership, 2017–2020 In December 2014, Fairfax Media New Zealand bought a 22.5 percent stake in the website. In 2017 it acquired the remaining shares. Following changes to Fairfax Media in 2018, the website is now owned by Stuff Ltd. In 2015, the website was a finalist in the NZI Sustainable Business Network Awards in the Community Impact category. In February 2018, Neighbourly's parent company Fairfax New Zealand was rebranded as Stuff. In July 2018, the Australian media company Nine Entertainment Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Limited is an Australian publicly listed company with holdings in mass media radio and television broadcasting, publishing and digital media. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 racism displayed in the police response. He served as Families Commissioner between 2008 and 2011, having previously been the national director of Prison Fellowship New Zealand. Workman has been a long-time advocate of prisoners' rights and for reform in the criminal justice system: he founded the Robson Hanan Trust, which is responsible for the Rethinking Crime and Punishment strategy, and was also the founder of JustSpeak, a youth network seeking changes in the criminal justice system, in 2011. From 2012 to 2013, he was a member of board of the Prisoners Aid and Rehabilitation Trust, and in 2013 he was appointed as an adjunct research fellow at Victoria University of Wellington's Institute of Criminology. In March 2021, he was appointed chai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranginui Walker
Ranginui Joseph Isaac Walker (1 March 1932 – 29 February 2016) was a New Zealand academic, author, and activist of Māori and Lebanese descent. Walker wrote about Māori land rights and cultural identity in his books and columns for the weekly ''New Zealand Listener'' and the monthly ''Metro'' magazine throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Early life Walker was born in 1932 into a farming family on the tribal lands of Whakatōhea, near Ōpōtiki in the Bay of Plenty. He credited his aunt Wairata, a foster mother, for helping him to learn Māori language and culture at a young age. In his own history of Whakatōhea (2007) Walker explained that at this time Māori language and culture were unfashionable, and that his generation was expected to assimilate. Education Walker was sent to St Peter's Maori College Auckland at the age of twelve. He went on to attend Auckland Teachers' Training College, and worked as a primary school teacher for 10 years. He gained a Bachelor of Arts a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Langstone
Michelle Langstone (born 30 January 1979) is a New Zealand actress, writer, and author who has been in many films and television series over the years in both New Zealand, and in Australia. She starred as Dr. Katherine "Kat" Manx in the television series '' Power Rangers S.P.D.'', and later appeared as Master Guin in '' Power Rangers Jungle Fury''. She also featured as Livia in 2008 action fiction series ''Legend of The Seeker''. Her debut book, the memoir ''Times Like These: On Grief, Hope, and Remarkable Love'', was published by Allen and Unwin George Allen & Unwin was a British publishing company formed in 1911 when Sir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co. It became one of the leading publishers of the twentieth century and established an Australian ... in May 2021. Filmography Film Television Writing Langstone has regularly contributed articles, travel stories, and essays to New Zealand publications such as The Spinoff, the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anjum Rahman
Anjum Nausheen Rahman (born 16 July 1966) is a New Zealand Muslim community leader and human rights activist who advocates for the rights of Muslim women. Early life and family Rahman was born on 16 July 1966 in the village of Mahuwara in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Her family moved to New Zealand from Canada in 1972 when she was five years old, after her father completed a PhD and was offered a post-doctoral position at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Hamilton. She became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1976. Career Rahman was a founding member of the Islamic Women's Council of New Zealand (IWCNZ) when it was established in 1990 and served as its first secretary. She is also a founding member of the Hamilton Ethnic Women's Centre (known commonly as Shama) and has served as a trustee on its board since 2002. Rahman was a spokesperson for the Muslim community following the Christchurch mosque shootings. In media interviews following the attack, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashleigh Young
Ashleigh Young (born 1983) is a poet, essayist, editor and creative writing teacher. She received the Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes, Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2017 for her second book, a collection of personal essays titled ''Can You Tolerate This?'' which also won the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Life Young was born in 1983 in Te Kūiti and grew up there and in Wellington. Writing featured in her life from childhood, when she wrote and illustrated a series of small books, started a magazine, created her own bedroom library, and (with her brothers) made movies with a borrowed video camera. She lived in London for several years and also worked for a year as director of the Katherine Mansfield House and Garden in Wellington, a house in which "you could step inside and imagine yourself to be a child in another century. She lists some of her favourite New Zealand writers and poets as Pip Adam, H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Grimshaw
Charlotte Grimshaw (born December 1966) is a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer, columnist and former lawyer. She has written both fiction and non-fiction, often drawing on her legal experience. Her short stories and longer works often have interlinked themes and characters, and feature psychological and family dramas. Since the publication of her debut novel ''Provocation'' (1999), she has received a number of significant literary awards including the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 2000, the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Award for short fiction in 2006 and the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship in 2023. Her short-story collection ''Opportunity'' (2007) won the Montana Award for Fiction and the Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry at the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. She has also won awards for her book reviews and column writing. Family and early career Grimshaw was born in Auckland in December 1966. She is the daughter of well-known New Zeal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finlay Macdonald (editor)
Finlay Macdonald (born 1961) is a New Zealand journalist, editor, publisher and broadcaster. He is best known for editing the New Zealand Listener (1998–2003). Macdonald was appointed New Zealand Editor: Politics, Business & Arts of the online media site The Conversation in April 2020. He lives in Auckland with his partner, media executive Carol Hirschfeld. They have two children. His father was the late journalist Iain Macdonald. Career Macdonald began his career as a junior reporter for the NZ Listener, later becoming a senior writer, before leaving to pursue a freelance career, during which time he researched and wrote television documentaries and was for two years a regular scriptwriter for TVNZ's long-running drama series ''Shortland Street''. From 1996 to 1997 Macdonald was a senior writer for Metro magazine, before returning to the Listener as deputy editor under then-editor Paul Little. When Little left, Macdonald was appointed editor, and hired Steve Braunias from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Braunias
Steven Carl Braunias (born 20 June 1960) is a New Zealand author, columnist, journalist and editor. He is the author of 14 books. Early life and family Braunias was born in New Zealand to an Austrian immigrant father and a New Zealand-born mother. He is the younger brother of artist Mark Braunias. He grew up in Mount Maunganui reading Shoot (football magazine), ''Shoot'' magazine, ''Roy of the Rovers'' and ''Tiger and Scorcher'' comic books. These would come to influence his later columns through the comic characters' names. Braunias was educated at Mount Maunganui College, and then attended the Wellington Polytechnic (now Massey University) journalism course in 1980 but did not graduate. Career Braunias has worked as editor of ''Capital Times (New Zealand), Capital Times'', feature writer at ''Metro (magazine), Metro magazine'', deputy editor of the ''New Zealand Listener'' and senior writer at ''The Sunday Star-Times''. He was also staff writer at ''Metro'' magazine, and syndic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Manhire
Toby Manhire (born 16 March; year unknown) is a New Zealand journalist and columnist, and the editor at-large of online magazine ''The Spinoff''. He is the son of poet Bill Manhire. Career Manhire was editor of student magazine '' Salient'' in 1997. From 2000 to 2010 he worked at ''The Guardian'', and has edited ''The Guardian''s comment pages. His work has also appeared in ''The New Zealand Herald'' and the ''New Zealand Listener'', among other publications. In 2012, he edited a book ''The Arab Spring: Rebellion, Revolution, and a New World Order'', published by Guardian Books. Manhire is active on Twitter, and was included in Bryce Edwards and Geoffrey Miller's list of the top 100 tweeters to follow in the 2014 election. On reviewing the list, social media blogger Matthew Beveridge concluded that Manhire's place was deserved: "Toby always has a quick comment for whatever is happening. Engages in a lot of discussions, and doesn’t retweet too much. Overall deserving of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waikato Times
The ''Waikato Times'' is a daily newspaper published in Hamilton, New Zealand, and owned by media business Stuff Ltd. It has a circulation to the greater Waikato region and became a tabloid paper in 2018. The newspaper has won the title of New Zealand Newspaper of the Year (in the category of up to 30,000 circulation) for two consecutive years: 2018 and 2019. History The ''Waikato Times'' started out as the tri-weekly ''Waikato Times and Thames Valley Gazette'', first published by George Jones on 2 May 1872 in Ngāruawāhia but moved to Hamilton in 1875. It was then managed by Messrs Langbridge, Silver, E. M. Edgecumbe, George Edgecumbe and J. S. Bond, who ran a book and stationery shop and changed the Times from tri-weekly to a penny daily in 1896, using Press Association news. For 20 years it competed with the ''Waikato Argus'', until the papers merged in 1915. The paper changed from afternoon to morning production from 5 September 2011, though had changed its Saturday ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |