Adam Dudding Podcast Director

Adam Dudding is Stuff’s Podcast Director.

Born in Ōtautahi Christchurch in 1970 and raised in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Adam was schooled in caption-writing and typo-finding at the Listener before heading to the UK, where he was a production journalist at the Independent, the Guardian and the Independent on Sunday. Since 2002 he’s been back in New Zealand, working for Stuff as a section editor, feature writer and, since 2018, podcast presenter and producer. His bestselling first book, My Father’s Island, was published in 2016.

Voyager Awards 2020, Best Episodic Podcast: Out of My Mind NZ Radio Awards 2019, Best Podcast for Gone Fishing (also Gold at NY Festivals Radio Awards and best Investigative Audio in the UK AIB Awards) Ockham Awards 2017, Best First Book of General Non-fiction: My Father's Island NZ Media Award 2013: Senior Newspaper Feature Writer