The Spinoff

The Spinoff is a New Zealand online commentary and opinion magazine started by Duncan Greive in 2014. It focuses on New Zealand politics, pop culture and social issues, often from a politically progressive or left-wing perspective.[3]

The Spinoff
Screenshot of The Spinoffs front page
Type of site
Online magazine
Available inEnglish
EditorDuncan Greive
URLwww.thespinoff.co.nz
Alexa rank 40,420 (152 in New Zealand) (June 2020)[1]
Commercialyes
Launched10 September 2014 (2014-09-10)[2]

The Spinoff TV

The Spinoff TV is a TV show that covered current affairs, pop culture, and media and was created as a collaboration between The Spinoff and MediaWorks.[4] It is hosted by Alex Casey and Leonie Hayden, and aired on Three. It premiered on 22 June 2018,[5] and aired its final episode on 5 October 2018.[6] Its first season had 16 episodes; it was not renewed for a second season.

Arts coverage

In 2019, The Spinoff received funding from Creative New Zealand to commission articles on contemporary New Zealand art and artists.[7] The art section is edited by New Zealand critics Mark Amery and Megan Dunn.[8]

gollark: I think you're doing the thing where your models of all the quirky somewhat unintuitive things programming languages do are so ingrained that you don't realise other people lack them.
gollark: I wonder if people would find Haskell etc. more intuitive if they started on it and were not exposed to Cish languages.
gollark: Bees aren't apioforms.
gollark: Hash it plus a random salt. Release the guesses and salt later.
gollark: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11041

References
  1. "The Spinoff web traffic statistics". Alexa. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  2. @duncangreive (10 September 2014). "Today I'm launching a new website called The Spinoff to cover TV for/from New Zealand" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. Olds, Jeremy. "Duncan Greive and the rise of The Spinoff". Stuff. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  4. "Holy heck: The Spinoff TV is coming to Three in 2018!". The Spinoff. 12 December 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  5. Spinoff, The (6 June 2018). "Huge and true: The Spinoff TV is coming to Three on June 22". Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  6. "The Spinoff TV". www.threenow.co.nz. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  7. "Arts Grants Round 1 2019". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  8. Dunn, Megan (3 July 2019). "Introducing The Spinoff Art". The Spinoff. Retrieved 25 October 2019.


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