Damien Venuto is the host of your daily news podcast, The Front Page.

I am a writer and editor with more than a decade’s experience and feel comfortable interviewing anyone. From the tenacious start-up owner selling cast-iron pans out of his garage to the billionaire rich-lister with ambitions of becoming a marijuana baron, I feel every business owner has a unique angle to their hustle. My objective has always been to find the human aspect under the jargon that so often buries the story. I initially worked as the online business editor at the NZ Herald, joining the team in 2017 off the back of winning the Supreme Editor of the Year Award at the Magazine Publishers Association Awards for my work with NZ Marketing magazine. Now, I host the NZ Herald’s daily news podcast, The Front Page. In each 15-minute episode, I chat with journalists and newsmakers and go behind the headlines to break down what you need to know about the biggest stories of the day, keeping it short and sharp. Feel free to follow us wherever you get your podcasts.