Matt Nippert
@mattnippert.bsky.social
Digger for Herald Business and ICIJ. Disclaimer: Views my own yadda yadda. Signal 64211931011
New Zealander of the Year: McSkimming's complainant.
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 AM
New Zealander of the Year: McSkimming's complainant.
Fatherhood summed up in one image:
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Fatherhood summed up in one image:
I'll say two things about SPG funding boost announced today: 1) No mention of likely costs to the government, 2) The removal of caps on above-the-line-spending on leading actors/directors was largely in response to criticism of SPG subsidising 20% of ScarJo's $25m fee to apper in Ghost in the Shell.
November 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I'll say two things about SPG funding boost announced today: 1) No mention of likely costs to the government, 2) The removal of caps on above-the-line-spending on leading actors/directors was largely in response to criticism of SPG subsidising 20% of ScarJo's $25m fee to apper in Ghost in the Shell.
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BusinessDesk has a fantastic (and rare) for a data journalist in New Zealand. The Herald and BusinessDesk are separate publications, but whoever is in this role will work with me on projects like Budget day visualisations 1/2
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Data Journalist - BusinessDesk - NZME
Join BusinessDesk as a Data Journalist—break market-moving stories, visualise insights, and set the global benchmark for data-driven reporting.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
BusinessDesk has a fantastic (and rare) for a data journalist in New Zealand. The Herald and BusinessDesk are separate publications, but whoever is in this role will work with me on projects like Budget day visualisations 1/2
careers.nzme.co.nz/jobs/6697721...
careers.nzme.co.nz/jobs/6697721...
Think I'm working on my best story since Citizen Thiel. So good I don't even mind writing on the weekend. 3000 words in and it feels like I might be half-way? Just 200 more pages of OIAs, three hours of interview transcripts, and several dense pages of legalese to sythenise and I'm g2g.
November 1, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Think I'm working on my best story since Citizen Thiel. So good I don't even mind writing on the weekend. 3000 words in and it feels like I might be half-way? Just 200 more pages of OIAs, three hours of interview transcripts, and several dense pages of legalese to sythenise and I'm g2g.
In memorandum of the burning down of Palmie's The Fitz, here's my first (and only, really) piece of gonzo journalism for Salient in 2003 about the Worst Pub in the World. CW: Piss and vomit. @jgreenbrookheld.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 5:02 AM
In memorandum of the burning down of Palmie's The Fitz, here's my first (and only, really) piece of gonzo journalism for Salient in 2003 about the Worst Pub in the World. CW: Piss and vomit. @jgreenbrookheld.bsky.social
Had panicked today and worked like a demon thinking it was a short week and I only had one more day before the weekend to finish a long-brewing project. I came home, frazzled and barely holding it together, and my wife told me today was Wednesday, not Thursday.
October 29, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Had panicked today and worked like a demon thinking it was a short week and I only had one more day before the weekend to finish a long-brewing project. I came home, frazzled and barely holding it together, and my wife told me today was Wednesday, not Thursday.
Thai E-Sarn (refugee from Food Alley RIP) on Hobson St might be the best Thai joint in the city. Beef salad 10/10 no notes.
October 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Thai E-Sarn (refugee from Food Alley RIP) on Hobson St might be the best Thai joint in the city. Beef salad 10/10 no notes.
Watercare’s fault reporting service has all the charm of a back-end spreadsheet, but a minor leak in our meter box got sorted <24 hours so AG.
October 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Watercare’s fault reporting service has all the charm of a back-end spreadsheet, but a minor leak in our meter box got sorted <24 hours so AG.
More Talley's v TVNZ: This time with bonus minister talking of a 'culture of fear' at the company. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
‘Culture of fear’: Former minister details WorkSafe concerns at Talley’s
Former minister says Talley's had 'serious deficencies' and a 'culture of fear'.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
More Talley's v TVNZ: This time with bonus minister talking of a 'culture of fear' at the company. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
Goddamn (allergic?) eczema outbreak on my eyelids. My eyes are gonna be swollen shut by morning. Spring is whack.
October 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Goddamn (allergic?) eczema outbreak on my eyelids. My eyes are gonna be swollen shut by morning. Spring is whack.
Talleys v TVNZ defamation trial reaches a crescendo. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
‘I have never seen anything like the fear I saw’: TVNZ reporter explains anonymous sources in defamation defence
TVNZ's Christchurch reporter Thomas Mead defends his investigation into Talley's.
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September 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Talleys v TVNZ defamation trial reaches a crescendo. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
Objectively, nothing tops chorizo-fried bacon, right?
September 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Objectively, nothing tops chorizo-fried bacon, right?
Pickup sticks ‘til ‘26.
September 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Pickup sticks ‘til ‘26.
Out in Titirangi we have lots of power outages. Some water outages. But the most insidious and debilitating is a fibre outage, now ticking into its 30th hour.
September 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Out in Titirangi we have lots of power outages. Some water outages. But the most insidious and debilitating is a fibre outage, now ticking into its 30th hour.
My final story from the epic/tragic/comic Zuru nappy trial. Feat: Reflections on the startup exit stories we tell ourselves, competition issues raised for for supermarkets and suppliers, and a hand-scrawled note where the Taylor family are schooled about FAANGT. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
‘Treasures ends tomorrow. Or it’s on’: How a dispute over diapers erupted into ‘all out war’
The protagonists, the arguments, and a joke than cannot be repeated.
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September 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
My final story from the epic/tragic/comic Zuru nappy trial. Feat: Reflections on the startup exit stories we tell ourselves, competition issues raised for for supermarkets and suppliers, and a hand-scrawled note where the Taylor family are schooled about FAANGT. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
The Zuru nappy trial hearing, just concluded after four long weeks, keeps bringing the tea. (Honestly, the most bonkers civil case I've ever covered.) www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
August 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The Zuru nappy trial hearing, just concluded after four long weeks, keeps bringing the tea. (Honestly, the most bonkers civil case I've ever covered.) www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
Week three of the Zuru nappy trial and it somehow becomes even more absorbing. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/zur...
'I had lost both my business and my mates': Witness tears up at Zuru nappy trial over soured friendship
Former friend of Nick Mowbray tells of relationship meltdown and alleged strong-arming.
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August 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Week three of the Zuru nappy trial and it somehow becomes even more absorbing. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/zur...
The NYT is categorically wrong to describe closing Alien: Earth ep2 with Stinkfist as a "mistep". It is glorious and proof that the content-creating algorithms are perfectly datamining my long-gestating preferences and long may that - and this show - continue. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...
‘Alien: Earth’ Episodes 1 and 2 Recap: Gross Encounters
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August 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The NYT is categorically wrong to describe closing Alien: Earth ep2 with Stinkfist as a "mistep". It is glorious and proof that the content-creating algorithms are perfectly datamining my long-gestating preferences and long may that - and this show - continue. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...
The trial that keeps on giving: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
'Hobson's choice': Ex cop sobs recounting nappy deal with Zuru and Mowbrays
Nappy dispute case hears of alleged hostile takeover and supermarket-driven restraints.
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August 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The trial that keeps on giving: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
Absolute scenes at the Zuru nappy trial. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/zur...
Zuru nappy trial: The billionaire, the basketballer and the secret recording
Mowbray is claiming breach of restraint terms.
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August 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Absolute scenes at the Zuru nappy trial. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/zur...
I spent all day at the High Court hearing about the intricacies of nappy production and how Zuru operates. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
Zuru nappy trial: Former business partner settles before court showdown
The court suppressed details of Rascal's pricing, factories, and marketing.
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August 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I spent all day at the High Court hearing about the intricacies of nappy production and how Zuru operates. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
Exciting developments in the Nippert household. Am jazzing up my kombu tsuyu udon soup recipe with fish tofu and frozen fish balls (mirin-drenched oyster mushrooms warming in oven).
August 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Exciting developments in the Nippert household. Am jazzing up my kombu tsuyu udon soup recipe with fish tofu and frozen fish balls (mirin-drenched oyster mushrooms warming in oven).
TFW you're the first guy to publicly call out an obvious con, get threatened with multiple lawsuits and see two football teams change hands in the aftershock, and finally - after 14 years! - see my original reporting proven in court with prison resulting. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
Notorious conman behind bars after 14-year manhunt
Ahsan Ali Syed finally faces justice for his elaborate advance-fee fraud.
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August 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
TFW you're the first guy to publicly call out an obvious con, get threatened with multiple lawsuits and see two football teams change hands in the aftershock, and finally - after 14 years! - see my original reporting proven in court with prison resulting. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
Back to dreading the weather. Gonna have to rip up my deck to see where stormwater is pooling, as panicking every time the daily level hits 50ml and engages overflow seepage is doing my head in.
July 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Back to dreading the weather. Gonna have to rip up my deck to see where stormwater is pooling, as panicking every time the daily level hits 50ml and engages overflow seepage is doing my head in.