Podcast Week: Mitch Churi launches podcast, ANZ’s ‘5 in 5’ podcast, Village marks podcast milestone, and hero pilot's podcast
The latest news from the world of podcasting in Australia.
Here's the top podcast news reported by Mediaweek for this week.
Mitch Churi swaps radio for podcasting with The Mitch Churi Chat Show
After parting ways with commercial radio earlier this year, Mitch Churi hasn’t wasted time figuring out his next move.
Instead, the award-winning broadcaster is stepping into podcasting with The Mitch Churi Chat Show, launching September 10 in partnership with Acast.
Framed as a modern twist on the late night format, the podcast will deliver long-form, unfiltered conversations with high-profile guests.
Episodes will be available in both audio and video, with full versions on YouTube and highlights packaged for TikTok and Instagram Reels.
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The Daily Aus offers real-time transparency on its business
The Daily Aus (TDA) will launch Building TDA on August 28, an eight-week newsletter and podcast series that documents the challenges and learnings of building the business.
The series, hosted by co-founders Sam Koslowski and Zara Seidler, is aimed at early-career professionals and first-time founders, offering an unfiltered view of growth, setbacks, and lessons from scaling TDA.
Each edition will combine practical insights with real-time reflections on running the company.
Employment Hero has partnered with TDA on the series, supporting its focus on engaging young Australians interested in business and leadership.
ANZ's '5 in 5' podcast isn't just good listening - it's great content marketing
Early every morning Australians are walking their dogs, driving to work, or hitting the gym with the voice of New Zealand finance expert Bernard Hickey in their ears.
He's the host of ANZ's 5 In 5 podcast designed to get its audience quickly up-to-date with the finance news and information professionals need to get started on their day.
If you're not across the ANZ 5 in 5 podcast, the marketing team at ANZ are actually okay with that.
The Village marks first year with new podcast
The Village, the industry-wide initiative for working parents in media, has announced a podcast with Mamamia, its first Melbourne event, and new commercial partners, just over a year since it launched.
The Village will release its first podcast, It Takes a Village, produced with Mamamia. The series will feature media professionals sharing the realities of balancing deadlines, client work, and family life.
“This podcast is about telling the real stories of parents in our industry celebrating the wins, acknowledging the challenges, and building connection through honesty,” said Lauren Thornborough, Co-Founder of The Village.
Hero Aussie pilot Richard de Crespigny launches Nova podcast
Nova Entertainment has announced a new original podcast, FLY with Richard de Crespigny, hosted by one of Australia’s most recognisable aviation figures. The series premieres Wednesday 28 August.
The weekly podcast draws on Richard de Crespigny’s four-decade aviation career and his experience leading Qantas Flight 32 through a catastrophic engine failure in 2010 – an incident that has come to define his work as a speaker and author on resilience and crisis leadership.
In FLY, de Crespigny revisits the QF32 emergency and explores how the lessons from that flight translate to leadership under pressure.
ABC true crime trial podcast host Stephen Stockwell isn't a court reporter. But he does have questions
Stephen ‘Stocky’ Stockwell doesn’t have a background in law or court reporting, and he sees that as a strength.
“I’m not a court reporter by trade,” he told Mediaweek. “I am a podcast host and journalist, but my role is sort of an audience proxy. So I'm asking the questions that most of us are hopefully kind of thinking.”
That approach paid off.
Following the success of Mushroom Case Daily, the ABC’s breakout true crime podcast chronicling the trial of Erin Patterson, the national broadcaster has brought Stockwell and the team back for a new title: The Case Of.
