INITIATIVES

The Next Page: Editors

Editors play a vital role in our media landscape, yet very few opportunities exist to support their development — whether it’s skills training, individualised mentorship, or having the chance to build a community of peers. This programme was a response to that.

Running through 2023-24, The Next Page: Editors was designed with and for the next generation of magazine editors in Aotearoa. Bringing together 15 editors from across the country, the cohort took part in a series of online workshops and three-day wānanga — with sessions focused on developing skills, relationships, and industry knowledge — as well as providing each editor with mentorship.

Sessions included the editor-writer relationship, trauma-informed interviewing (with Ali Mau and Aaron Smale), navigating risk-taking within a legal framework (with Robert Stewart), harnessing your strengths as a manager and leader (with Courtney Johnston, Emily Miller-Sharma and Simon Day), ways of packaging a story (with Carmen Parahi, Noreen Malone and Henry Oliver), navigating knotty ethics (with Anna Fifield), fact-checking (with Anna Hodge) and storytelling during a crisis (with The New York Times’ Lydia Polgreen and The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner).

Hosted by The Spinoff in partnership with North & South, Pantograph Punch, Ensemble and E-Tangata. Programme design and delivery was led by Rosabel Tan with Rachel Morris.

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