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16 May 2025
Kia ora [firstname,
Happy Friday! Via an EDM early this morning, Madeleine Chapman announced she would be stepping down later this year as editor of The Spinoff. StopPress editor Penny Murray has the story below and what this means for the online magazine - who is now publicly recruiting for an editor for the first time in its history. Meanwhile, I spoke to the team at Kindred Studio, who, in just 24 hours, set up a fundraising initiative for the tariff-hit and penguin-inhabited Heard Island - a move that added levity to an otherwise negative news story. Media expert Antony Young rounds up industry news around the globe, including Substack's major subscriber surge. Stuff is celebrating being a finalist in four categories at the International Native Advertising Awards and Viva and Glow Lab have partnered up to present the Viva Beauty Awards. This week, IAB New Zealand shared analysis on how New Zealand's digital advertising revenue compared to the rest of the world, and launched a new event on retail media.
Happy reading! And if you have news you’d like to share, let us know. Email editor@stoppress.co.nz.
See you on next week - mā te wā,
Zahra and the StopPress team.