Duncan Greive
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Duncan Greive | |
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Born | 1979 (age 41–42) Auckland, New Zealand |
Organization | The Spinoff |
Spouse(s) | Nicola Greive |
Children | 3 |
Duncan Greive was born in Auckland in 1979. He is best-known as the founder and managing editor of The Spinoff, a subscriber- and sponsor-funded online magazine based in Auckland.
Life and career[]
Greive spent the first 10 years of his life in South London. His English mother worked as a social worker, and his New Zealand-born father held down several jobs. In 1990 the family returned to New Zealand, where his father worked as the managing director of a travel agency. Both parents became major shareholders in the Barkers fashion label. Greive attended Auckland Grammar and the University of Auckland, where he studied history.[1]
Greive left university at 21 before graduating to take up a job as a postie, as he was about to become a father. He went on to finish his history degree part-time. While delivering mail he found work as a reviewer for the Auckland music magazine Real Groove. After the editor John Russell resigned in 2004, Greive was not chosen to replace him, as he didn't have a journalism qualification. So he enrolled in the Auckland University of Technology postgraduate journalism course. Three months after graduating he became the editor of Real Groove.[1][2][3]
By 2009, Greive was working in marketing for the Auckland fashion label Barkers, and working as a freelance journalist. Since 2012 he has written for New Zealand Geographic, Metro, North & South,[3] The Guardian, , The Listener, Faster Louder and Sky Sport Magazine, the New Zealand Herald, Stuff, Newshub and Radio New Zealand.[4][5] In 2015 he co-wrote Dan Carter: My Story with former All Black Dan Carter.[6] The autobiography, published by Auckland publisher Upstart Press, was the biggest-selling book in New Zealand in 2015 and won Best Autobiography in the 2016 .[7]
Greive lives in Auckland with his wife, Nicola, and three children, Jett, Robyn and Vivienne.[citation needed]
The Spinoff[]
In 2014 Greive launched The Spinoff, an online news site publishing breaking news, politics, pop culture, reviews and social issues across a range of platforms. The business is owned by Grieve and his wife Nicola, a lawyer at the Serious Fraud Office.[1] It operates as a website and a copywriting agency; Spinoff staff writers are funded by subscribers and commercial sponsors.[8] The site began as a blog about TV shows sponsored by streaming platform Lightbox.[9][10][11]
The Spinoff also publishes daily newsletters and podcasts.[12] In July 2020 The New Zealand Herald and The Spinoff announced they would share journalism and written content.[13]
"The Spinoff was a combination of an accident and an experiment," Greive told the University of Auckland in a 2017 series on alumni titled 40 under 40: Influencers. "The traditional funding model for journalism is fundamentally broken and I wanted to see if I could create a new model that allowed me to grow a business that’s a combination of a media company and a creative agency."[14]
During the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 - 21, Greive's The Spinoff began working with the World Health Organisation (WHO), after a communications officer there saw a series of widely shared Covid-19 public health illustrations he had commissioned. These were part of a series of pieces explaining Covid-19, a collaboration between two regular Spinoff contributors; staff member and cartoonist Toby Morris and science communicator and microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles.[15]
Publications[]
- Carter, Dan (2015). Dan Carter: my story. with Duncan Greive. Sydney: Upstart Press. ISBN 978-1-4607-5147-3. OCLC 931025745.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Olds, Jeremy (26 August 2016). "Duncan Greive and the rise of The Spinoff". Stuff. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ Bertram, Gavin (11 May 2014). "Being In The Room: Duncan Greive". Pantograph Punch. Archived from the original on 26 August 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-07.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Larson, ed. (August 2012). "Contributors". North & South. Auckland. p. 10.
- ^ Greive, Duncan (25 September 2013). "Storm Chaser: The Story of Metro's Lorde Story". Metro. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ "Duncan Greive". Pantograph Punch. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ Tapaleao, Vaimoana (29 October 2015). "Dan Carter biography due in two weeks". NZ Herald. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ "Rugby: Dan Carter's book wins best autobiography prize". NZ Herald. 28 September 2016. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ Fonseka, Dileepa (11 August 2016). "Death of journalism to blame for rise of Trump and ISIS". The Waikato Independent. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ Fahy, Ben (2015-05-26). "Inside: The Spinoff". StopPress. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ Scouler, Jen (21 February 2019). "Exceptional entrepreneur: Duncan Greive, The Spinoff". Deloitte Private. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ Hamilton, Ramp Festival Wintec (2016-10-05), Wintec Spark 2016 - Duncan Greive, retrieved 2021-03-06
- ^ Greive, Duncan (2021-02-16). "A user's guide to The Spinoff". The Spinoff. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ "NZ Herald and The Spinoff launch new content sharing deal". NZ Herald. 1 July 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ "Duncan Greive". 40 under 40: University of Auckland. 2017. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ Edmunds, Susan (21 June 2020). "How a Kiwi media company became the World Health Organisation's latest Covid-19 weapon". Stuff.
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