Our Archive is Live: Read 2024's Craccums Online Now

We are excited to announce that our new archive page is now live, featuring every Craccum from 2024. These can be viewed here or at www.craccum.co.nz/archive. We plan to keep expanding our archive page to go back to at least 2017 and will post regular updates as progress is made.

For those who weren't around for last year's Craccum, I'll give you a quick crash course. Craccum was helmed by Kieran Panui and Kala Burgess in 2024. Their editorial vision was bold and ambitious. Back then, they published Craccum weekly and tackled a different theme each week. This was much more frequent than what previous years had attempted.

They established a brand identity for the magazine with the help of Visual Arts Editor Arianna Ramos. The fixed oval logo and the brand-coloured border are both legacies from 2024, which have continued despite our rebranding in 2025. Aside from her other responsibilities, she made 14 of the 22 covers, a monumental achievement. As someone who has made barely 3 Craccum covers (including Issue #13 2024) over the past 3 years, I can scarcely imagine doing such a feat on a weekly basis.

Craccum also launched a Podcast in 2024, which ran for #8 episodes before being discontinued for various reasons. It is currently lost media with the changeover to the new website, but if there is popular demand to preserve this piece of Craccum history, we'll look into re-uploading it. Here is a reel clip promoting the podcast. Craccum 2024 also introduced several new Editorial/staff positions, including Pasifika Editor, Environmental Editor, Horoscopes Editor, 2 x Podcast People and 4 x Interns. Unfortunately, due to funding reasons, not all of these positions could be offered again in 2025.

There was a lot of really great content made by my colleagues in 2024 (I was the Arts Editor). But my personal favourite article from 2024 would have to be the Uni Hack 2-parter by 2024 Features Editor Oliver Cocker, who showed how easy it was for people to be scammed by trojan horse QR codes around campus. He made a dodgy QR code promising an entry into a prize draw that actually stole your personal details, and over four hours, sixty-eight people got scammed. Be careful out there (read more in Issues 16 and 15 from 2024).

I hope that gives you some insight into 2024's Craccum back catalogue, although I've just scraped the tip of the iceberg. So, if you can't get enough Craccum 2025, enjoy our archive in the meantime.

Shout out to the 2024 Craccum staff:

• Kieran Panui (Editor-in-Chief)
• Kala Burgess (Deputy Editor)
• Oliver Cocker (Features Editor)
• Reema Arsilan (Features Intern)
• Lewis Matheson Creed (Arts Editor)
• Tim Evans (Arts Intern)
• Kaavya Ghoshal (Lifestyle Editor)
• Alan Wu (News Editor)
• Trevor Pronoso (News Intern)
• Arianna Ramos (Visual Arts Editor)
• Younsoo Kim (Visual Arts Editor)
• Ben Lai (Podcast Intern/Assistant Visual Arts Editor)
• Sophia Ibbetson (Social Media)
• Lee Li (Social Media)
• Blaze Webster (Te Ao Māori Editor)
• Iatua Taito (Pasifika Editor)
• Mike Cross (Environmental Editor)
• Bennedict West (Podcast Person)
• Anoushka Coulter (Podcast Person)
• Clarice De Toledo (Horoscopes)
• Plus, the countless contributing writers and artists

Also, we apologise for any inconvenience caused by the transition to our new website and any dead links to old Craccum content. We hope you've enjoyed our new content and can see why the move was needed. Thank you for your patience.