If you’re a fan of the Bulletin, help us bring our daily curated guide of the most important NZ news to a wider audience. And, we’ll give you some sweet prizes too. Since The Bulletin was launched around the start of the year, we’ve had thousands of people sign up. Hundreds of people have got … Read more
You can download your friendly local website’s mobile application for zero dollars – now with variable text size and search functionality. Update December 2019: The Spinoff app now comes with search functionality and the option to increase text size. Find the text-size option at the top of each post, and the search bar by scrolling … Read more
The Spinoff recently launched a free daily digest of the most important news from around New Zealand called The Bulletin, and it’s proving to be a big hit. Here’s why you should sign up. Nobody has an abundance of time any more. The idea of sitting down for a leisurely read of the paper every … Read more
The migratory patterns of New Zealand media content grow even more elaborate as RNZ and the Spinoff reveal their groundbreaking new deal. The juggernaut of quality New Zealand journalism is teaming up with friendly local website The Spinoff, it was announced today to nil fanfare. According to a media release from RNZ, both parties are delighted … Read more
If you can write a snappier job ad than this, please consider the vacant situation at your friendly local website. The Spinoff is hiring a general reporter/editor for a new role across our news and media coverage. The successful applicant will be an avid consumer of New Zealand journalism, and willing to work weird hours … Read more
The editor of The Spinoff explains why he is no longer editor of The Spinoff, plus talks through other key staff changes. Then indulges himself about what The Spinoff means, and how it was made. Hello. This is a post announcing that I’m handing over the editor’s job at The Spinoff from today. I want to … Read more
NZ on Air has funded your favourite local website to ramp up its video output across all online channels, and make its first free-to-air TV show. Incredible news for fans of The Spinoff and/or the medium of television: NZ on Air has just announced that The Spinoff TV will be coming to both the internet … Read more
Friends of the Earth Australia and Julie Fogarty’s complaint against The Spinoff about three articles related to baby formula nanoparticles has not been upheld. The Press Council has declined to uphold the complaint filed by Friends of the Earth Australia and Julie Fogarty in relation to three articles published by The Spinoff in July 2017. … Read more
Want us to do more investigative journalism? Now you can help make that happen, writes Duncan Greive. The Spinoff was founded as an experiment in magazine journalism. An attempt to figure out if there was a way to fund it online without the torrent of empty calorie content which has been the hallmark of many news … Read more
Our War for Auckland Veteran’s Association memorial mugs, complete with rare collector’s edition spelling mistake, are a covetable momento of last year’s War for Auckland campaign, and we have 10 of them up for grabs. Just complete our super-quick reader survey and you’re in the draw. Take the survey here. The Spinoff Media is sponsored … Read more
Your favourite New Zealand media company is hiring a business journalist to join our cool team. This September, we launch The Spinoff Business, a section dedicated to New Zealand’s private sector. We are seeking a journalist – or journalists (more on that further on) – to write, edit and commission within the section. It’s an … Read more
We’re seeking a partnerships editor to join our cool team and manage the work we do with brands, NGOs and agencies. The Spinoff is seeking an experienced writer and editor to join our Auckland team. The role is partnerships editor and is critical for the business, overseeing all content created for clients, on or beyond the … Read more
Compiling the best reading from your friendly local website. Duncan Greive: The incremental radical: Bill English meets the Spinoff “Despite his having been marked as a future prime minister since at least university, he seemed to have found a happy and natural ceiling. Yet, thanks to that shocking announcement in November, here he is – … Read more
It would mean a great deal to us at the Spinoff if you’d click your way through this quick survey, to help us work out who our audience are, what you’d like more of, and what we should be paying attention to in election year. Last year we ran an online reader survey, which generated … Read more
Compiling the best reading from your friendly local website. Sam Brooks and Natasha Hoyland: Mining the comedy gold for you: The Spinoff’s pop-up comedy section is here! “We’re not going to be a bunch of old white guys just writing reviews and spoiling jokes. We care about comedy, and we care about people who care … Read more
Compiling the best reading from your friendly local website. Hayden Donnell: Finding Rosemary: In search of the unsung hero who invented Kiwi Onion Dip “Our disregard for the dip’s architect has bugged me for years. Every time I’ve bitten down on a dip-drenched chip, I’ve wondered the culinary savant behind the flavour miracle being performed … Read more
Compiling the best reading from your friendly local website. The Spinoff: We are hiring a comedy editor LMAO!! “The Spinoff needs an editor to run our pop up comedy section during the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Sound like you? Read on.” James Dann: The Port Hills fire makes it clear: Our Civil Defence is … Read more
Compiling the best reading from your friendly local website. Simon Wilson: PM Bill English gave two speeches on Waitangi Day. Both were remarkable. Both were almost entirely ignored “English chose not to go to Waitangi, preferring to attend a breakfast hosted by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei. When it came his turn to speak during the powhiri, … Read more
Compiling the best reading from your friendly local website. Murdoch Stephens: Trump’s refugee ban is a moral outrage that shames America. When will PM Bill English say so? “France and Germany have already stepped up and denounced Trump’s refugee policies. But where is New Zealand’s Prime Minister Bill English? One can imagine his strategists talking … Read more
Compiling the best reading from your friendly local website. Duncan Greive: Announcing The Spinoff app “That’s the business motivation though – what’s in it for you? Well, mainly a really incredible experience as a reader. We consider the app – access to all our stories, sortable via author and section – to be the very … Read more
Today sees the launch of one of the biggest developments in Spinoff history: a mobile app for Apple and Android. Editor and publisher Duncan Greive tells you why you should download it now. One of the most persistent questions since the dawn of Spinoff time in AD 2014 has been “do u have an app?” … Read more
Compiling the best reading from your friendly local website. Alex Casey: Shocker: Turns out Jimi Jackson’s a misogynist bully too “The real kicker is that this wasn’t even conducted outside a vineyard, or inside a fictitious locker room where there might have been a vague thought that only a handful of people would ever see … Read more
Compiling the best reading from your friendly local website. Annabelle Lee: Silly old sausage: Why the Mad Butcher’s Waiheke comment matters “To argue that someone is incapable of making a racist comment because they have a connection to, or interest in, a particular community is a bit like saying a man is incapable of sexism … Read more
A brief note of festive gratitude as we plunge into hibernation (mostly) for a fortnight. The final Friday beer gong of the year has reverberated through Spinoff headquarters, and we are just about out of here. From tomorrow, our “Summer reissue” series begins, in which we showcase some of the best Spinoff writing of the … Read more
Compiling the best reading from your friendly local website. Toby Manhire: Bloody hell, John Key just quit as prime minister. This is not how things happen! “The National Party under Key has been lauded, rightly, for its ability to renew, with underperforming MPs finding themselves nudged out, or shouldered towards retirement. But now the prime … Read more
Last week plans for a new news-based site, run by Mark Jennings and Tim Murphy, thudded prematurely into public view. What are the former mainstream news chiefs’ plans for the venture, could they have done more to stop the crisis they now hope to remedy, and can they sign up John Campbell to cover the … Read more
Compiling the best reading from your friendly local website. Luke Tipoki: You say Kai-kura, I say Kaikōura – why your inability to pronounce Māori place names pisses me off “When I hear this mangling of tō tātou reo Māori, I hear years of colonisation, and I hear a country that seems uninterested in the preservation … Read more
Songwriting has been accepted as a Level 3 NCEA subject from 2017. Play It Strange CEO Mike Chunn got the scoop and asked some of New Zealand’s best songwriters what they thought about it. This is a watershed moment. Songwriting is now an NCEA subject. Specifically – Level 3 with the Achievement Standard number of … Read more
