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Welcome to the Ideas Channel

Reliable news and informed ideas are essential. We guarantee both.

We are a non-profit organization committed to reliable news, informed opinion, free education and new ideas. We feature news organisations that are some of the most trusted in the English-speaking world. Factual accuracy is their cornerstone, and ours. We also present opinions from prominent global publications, and we are a platform for new ideas. Thousands of visitors now share these interests with us on a daily basis.

We also offer free education with Harvard University, Coursera, founded by Stanford University, also EdX, with MIT and Harvard, and the UK Open University. The Royal Institution is about science, philosophy and discovery. Google Arts and Culture partners with over 3,000 of the most famous museums and galleries around the world for virtual tours, online videos and artwork of the highest resolution. 

Dr Mike Minehan

Mike Minehan is the founder and Managing Editor of the Ideas Channel. He graduated from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, with two degrees and the New Zealand literary award, the MacMillan Brown Prize. Mike's first job was as a TV News Director with the then New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation. He went on to become a Parliamentary Reporter for the NZBC, the foundation TV reporter on the primetime Town and Around, and an investigative TV journalist with New Zealand’s weekly analysis program, Compass.  

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Dr Allan Martin OBE

Dr Allan Martin is the Creative Director of the Ideas Channel. Allan has worldwide experience in radio and TV. For eight years, he was a Producer/Director for Associated-Rediffusion Television, London, after which he became Chief Producer TV for the New Zealand Broadcasting Service. This followed extensive experience in radio as a producer in New Zealand, Australia and Mozambique.

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