Compiling the best reading of the week from your friendly local website. Madeleine Holden: ‘This is how you raise a rapist’: on the culture which created Brock Turner “Mr Turner held attitudes about women, consent and entitlement that fed through to his son and helped to inform his behaviour. This became evident throughout the trial and … Read more
A rare and exciting opportunity to work at this wonderful website. The Spinoff is seeking a social media manager to run social for our plucky media startup. It’s a full-time role working within The Spinoff team to assist in planning, buying, monitoring and reporting of social activity for The Spinoff, and will involve work for … Read more
Compiling the best reading of the week from your friendly local website. Madeleine Chapman: John Key suggested we Google TradeMe for homes under $500,000. So we did, and here they are “Of the 6548 properties listed in Auckland, 65 had an asking price below $500,000, 20 of which were over $495k.” Tainui Stephens: Blindness to … Read more
Compiling the best reading of the week from your friendly local website. Sacha McNeil: “My work BFF is leaving” – Sacha McNeil farewells Hilary Barry “A couple of years ago Hilary took me aside and earnestly explained that she wanted a mentor, and wondered if we could be that to each other. She went on to … Read more
The Surrey Hotel and The Spinoff join forces to establish a new writer in residence award. Enter now! Auckland’s Surrey Hotel – named the Best Hotel in Auckland in the New Zealand Herald – is pleased to support a new writers residency award in association with The Spinoff. The winner of the Surrey Hotel Steve … Read more
The Spinoff got given $20,000 by Creative New Zealand. Whee! Creative New Zealand announced the recipients of its latest arts grant funding last Thursday. All up, 84 grants totaling $1,811,509 were shelled out. The full list is online; here’s an edited version, because it’s the Monday Extract. The happy pigs with their snout in the … Read more
Compiling the best reading of the week from your friendly local website. Sonia Gray: Where are the Asian faces on our TV screens? “I watched more TV, searching for any sign of that great endangered species, The New Zealand Asian male. But no. From a pool of 150, my survey had just two Asian dudes, both … Read more
Compiling the best reading of the week from your friendly local website. Delaney Mes: A point-by-point rebuttal of Tony Veitch’s terrible column “It is appalling. It is appalling to many of us who don’t think he should have a prominent platform from which to share his opinion. He should be embarrassed. And yet, it’s so clearly … Read more
Compiling the best reading of the week from your friendly local website. Hayden Donnell and Duncan Greive: Coup on at MediaWorks “There is a threat of mass resignations across TV and Radio, not just news,” said a senior Mediaworks source. “If there are no actions by the Board in the next 48 hours then resignations at … Read more
New verse by Wellington writer, academic and editor Harry Ricketts. Having trouble with your relationship? You may or may not be to blame. Don’t delay ‒ contact Dumper & Co today. Does he or she play home and away? Suspect them of being bi, straight or gay? Having trouble with your relationship? Some like it … Read more
Compiling the best reading of the week from your friendly local website. Tim Murphy: What happens when you appear before a judge you called a c*** on Facebook? “A man named Troy LaRue found the story on social media, and made an uncomplimentary remark about Roberts’ appearance. Unluckily, he was summonsed to the court for unpaid traffic fines a few … Read more
Compiling the best reading of the week from your friendly local website. Alex Casey and Duncan Greive: ‘I will come forward’ “At 11pm, in her inner city Auckland flat, a 26-year-old product manager named Bridget read Allison’s Facebook post. They’d known one another for 14 years, but she had been unaware of Allison’s history with Tidball. It … Read more
The Spinoff editor Duncan Greive looks back over the site’s year in 2015, ahead of a break from new content over the Christmas / new year period. Dear Spinoff Reader This is just a brief(ish) letter to inform you that we’ve done our dash for this year, and will be off tanning and sleeping until … Read more
Today we turn one, and debut a new iteration of The Spinoff, a little TV website which has lately been nursing big dreams. We relaunch today with five new categories and eight new staff to help run them. It’s been a wild few months: first figuring out what exactly to do, then how we’d fund … Read more
11 months ago today, The Spinoff went live. The very same day, I flew out on a long-planned, month-long, un-delay-able trip overseas. So Alex Casey, who I barely knew at the time, kept the site alive during that first month. And has been its driving force since. I’ve been busy writing a book, commissioning, editing, … Read more