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About Idealog

Matt Cooney

Editor

Matt has edited Idealog since its launch in December 2005. He worked as a journalist in New Zealand and Japan before launching a web development firm in Dunedin, with clients in New Zealand, the US, the UK and Australia. He later headed the development team at listed e-commerce startup e-Media and then returned to journalism with Computerworld in 2003. In 2008, Matt was named Business Editor of the Year.

Cassie Doherty

Deputy editor

Cassie has been in the magazine industry since 2000, working on a range of titles in various roles including a four-year stint as deputy editor of PC World. Previously editor of our travel magazine Inspire, Cassie is now deputy editor of Idealog and has been with HB Media since 2008.

Adrian Clapperton

Art director

Adrian brings over 13 years of publishing design experience with him. He was previously art director at AGM publishing, where he was responsible for the design and development for the first seven years of the now-well established Urbis magazine. He has also won several MPA Designer of the Year awards for Prodesign and Architecture NZ magazines. Adrian joined HB Media in May 2006.

Su Yin Khoo

Designer

Su Yin graduated with a degree in graphic design from AUT in 2004 and was soon giving some much-needed style to the IT press at Computerworld and as art director on PC World. She joined HB Media in November 2006 and quickly introduced her colleagues to Neopets, Facebook, Twitter and the joys of two-wheelin’.

Ben Gibb

Sales & advertising manager

Ben Gibb has a long and successful career selling advertising in New Zealand and in Britain. He played a central role in founding Internet magazine and was advertising manager for Unlimited magazine before being named general manager in 2004. In September 2005 he joined HB Media as sales and marketing manager.

Martin Bell

Business director

Martin has spent nearly 20 years in the publishing industry, starting with book publisher Reed Methuen and moving into magazines with IDG Communications, one of the world’s largest technology publishers. There he became general manager of the New Zealand division and publisher of NZ PC World magazine. He also founded >>FFWD magazine, one of Australasia's fastest growing digital entertainment magazines, and was named Publisher of the Year in 2002 by the Magazine Publishers Association. In 2004 he left IDG to form HB Media with Vincent Heeringa.

Vincent Heeringa

Editorial director

Vincent won many awards as a journalist with Metro magazine and The Independent Business Weekly and was twice named Editor of the Year by the Magazine Publishers’ Association for his role in founding Unlimited magazine. In 2004 he co-founded HB Media and is a publisher at AUT Media, the publishing division of AUT University.

David MacGregor

Co-founder

David is an internationally-awarded creative director and brand consultant (specialising in media brands) with extensive experience in advertising, design, IT and publishing. As a founder of BrandWorld he conceived and developed the phenomenally successful ‘masthead marketing’ brands Family Health Diary and Eating Well (both of which which won unprecedented consecutive NZ Marketing Award for Business to Business marketing in 2005/6). He is also a senior visiting tutor at Massey University, teaching marketing, communications and design research to design students.

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• Mark on Bigger, faster, more productive:
  Fantastic! Finally some vision in establishing a key infrastructure to support New Zealand's future prosperity and commercial competitiveness. Good work Rod, Sam and Steve - your country thanks you for your patriotism!  …
• Margaret Holmes on NZ Institute thumbs down Key's agenda:
  Unfortunately it is not just red tape - it is also the laid back kiwi attitude, compounded by educators who think achieving national standards is a bad thing.
• Tim Marshall on Smile, you’re in New Zealistan:
  The target of higher GDP per capita is all wrong. Aiming for it encourages more production and consumption, often at the expense of quality of life. We need to construct a Genuine Progress Index (GPI) to guide policy. Fr  …
• Peter McL on New note:
  "You got caught up in events at EMI.." and yet shes STILL with EMI - their local branch is distributing her new album. Wonder why?
  
  I blogged some more of Hollies comments on the details behind the fallout  …
• Phil Wollerman on Smile, you’re in New Zealistan:
  Brilliant, insightful article, VH.
  
  This situation has principally arisen because - simplistically - the world no longer wants what we are intrinsically advantaged in supplying.
  
  And yeah, it doesn't look like our co  …
• Anon on Smile, you’re in New Zealistan:
  The answer lies in a) increasing the returns to capital and b) decreasing the cost of capital. To do a) we need to reduce corporate and income taxes and replace them with land, resource, pollution and infrastructure char  …

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