The Spinoff

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs The Spinoff

The Spinoff thespinoff.co.nz

New Zealand's home for independent journalism, illuminating perspectives and good times.

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

In English

02 · Privacy

What The Spinoff tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

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   Newsroom newsroom.co.nz English 5 trackers

   Newsroom | Independent New Zealand News and Current affairs

   Newsroom is an independent, New Zealand-based news and current affairs site covering politics, business, climate change and more.

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   Stuff stuff.co.nz Top 10K English 3 trackers

   Stuff: Latest breaking news | New Zealand

   News from New Zealand and the world: breaking news, videos, sport, rugby, politics, business, entertainment, lifestyle, travel, and property

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   RNZ rnz.co.nz English 2 trackers

   RNZ | New Zealand news, culture, radio, podcasts and more

   Comprehensive news, culture, lifestyle, live radio and on-demand audio, podcasts and documentaries from New Zealand's only non-commercial public media.

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   NZ Herald nzherald.co.nz Top 10K English 4 trackers

   NZ Herald: Breaking & Latest New Zealand News - NZ Herald

   Get the latest breaking news, analysis and opinion from NZ and around the world, including politics, business, sport, entertainment, travel and more.

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   1News 1news.co.nz English 5 trackers

   1News

   Latest News, 1News breaking news, in-depth analysis, political and economic news, business , sports, and entertainment and award-winning journalism from New Zealand’s most trusted news source, 1News

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   Otago Daily Times odt.co.nz English 2 trackers

   ODT.co.nz | Otago Daily Times | Latest South Island News

   Local news, sport, business and opinion from Otago, Southland, Canterbury and beyond. The online home of the Otago Daily Times and 23 other South Island newspapers.

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   Vox vox.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

   Vox

   Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.

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   VICE vice.com Top 10K English 8 trackers

   VICE - VICE is the definitive guide to enlightening information.

   VICE is a global media channel focusing on investigative journalism and enlightening videos about everything from world news, travel, art, drugs, politics, sports, fashion, sex, and super cute animals.

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   The Daily Beast thedailybeast.com Top 10K

   American news publication

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    HuffPost huffpost.com Top 1K English 3 trackers

    HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion

    Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.

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    The Intercept theintercept.com English 1 tracker

    The Intercept

    Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.

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    The Independent independent.co.uk Top 1K English 4 trackers

    News | The Independent | Today's headlines and latest breaking news

    The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.

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    Semafor semafor.com English 1 tracker

    Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video

    Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.

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    Slate slate.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts

    Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.

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    Bored Panda boredpanda.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas

    Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.

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    InfoWorld infoworld.com English 4 trackers

    InfoWorld

    Business technology, IT news, product reviews and enterprise IT strategies.

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    TIME time.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates

    Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.

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    MinnPost minnpost.com English 4 trackers

    MinnPost — Nonprofit, independent journalism

    MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.

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    BuzzFeed News buzzfeednews.com English 2 trackers

    BuzzFeed News | Breaking News | Original Reporting | News Analysis

    BuzzFeed News has breaking stories and original reporting on politics, world news, social media, viral trends, health, science, technology, entertainment, and LGBTQ issues.

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    Malaysiakini malaysiakini.com English 2 trackers

    Malaysiakini

    News and views that matter

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Spinoff’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Spinoff uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what The Spinoff adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.