[2][3] The Spinoff began as a TV blog sponsored by the streaming platform Lightbox: it has expanded to a multi-platform news site that also publishes current affairs newsletters, podcasts and online video series.

We give them implicit license because they know what makes good content and we know what our audience is interested in", Greive told business journalist Tash McGill.

These were part of a series of pieces explaining COVID-19, in a collaboration between cartoonist Toby Morris and the microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles.

The Spinoff released the pair's COVID illustrations and animations to Wikimedia Commons, where they have been picked up by public health services around the world.

[10] Some of the New Zealand journalists, staff writers, authors, political figures, academics, scientists and illustrators whose work has appeared in The Spinoff: