Richard Akingbehin is a British-Nigerian artist, curator and DJ living in Berlin. He goes by the DJ name Richard Akingbehin because he needs no other name. He kind enough to take time out of his day as the co-founder of Berlin radio station - and community hotspot – Refuge Worldwide to chat to us for our 13th issue!

We chat to Amy Anderson, the General Manager of online and physical fashion powerhouse Above the Clouds.

She’s also a self-proclaimed reading format purist, something we will let you figure out the meaning of as you read on below.

Let’s face it: there’s clearly enough US election coverage out there, so what better time to binge it than during the countdown week? We put that challenge to our own GM, Sam Somers, a person from a completely different country who has a somewhat uncomfortable and inexplicably vested interest in the political rollercoaster that is American democracy.

For our 10th issue, SKMG’s co-founder and partner, Andrew Knowles, has finally let the cat out of the bag and completed his own COMMPRESS: MediaDiet with all the gusto of a man with a point to prove… That he loves niche content almost as much as he loves K-pop. And that he digests a lot of both on a daily basis.

Sometimes you come across people who just really (like really) have their act together. You know the types; those who can squeeze in a book they don’t even know if they like next to a yoga class followed by a gossip podcast, all while they’re TikTok-ing, Strava-ing, news-reading, liking, commenting, texting back and even visiting hardcore shows.

It’s exhaustingly admirable. It’s very Nell Barabas.

Scott Purcell is the Co-Founder of Australia’s largest men’s lifestyle site, Man of Many, a CFA Charter holder, an ex-senior financial analyst and a guy who has an almost unhealthy obsession with YouTube, self-help podcasts and seemingly any piece of media with the word “business” in its title.

Forbes Australia’s Editor-In-Chief, Sarah O’Carroll, puts us all to shame. Today we give you a glimpse into the media habits of a digital consumption machine, an Irish-born superstar who somehow finds the time to both take in and deliver business and financial news, every single day.

Much like Paul Newman, SKMG has it’s own brand of secret sauce, in the form of one Sam Hillman, who oft sits behind the scenes (from New York) furiously scribbling the best quips, remarks and all manner of pleasant paragraphs that our dear readers of COMMPRESS have come to know and love.

Paul Marvucic is a Haver of Great Hair, a big Google Maps guy (“ever since I was a kid in New Jersey trying to reassure myself there was something out there that wasn’t New Jersey”), and the director of product marketing at crowdfunding platform, Patreon. After stints in London and San Francisco working for TikTok and YouTube respectively, he’s here filling out the form for our fifth iteration of COMMPRESS: MediaDiet.

Tara Bennett is the founder, brains and brawn behind Sydney’s design-hub-slash-Japanese-homewares-importer, Provider Store as well as Hobart’s Provider House and, just recently, Maido coffee pop-up in Surry Hills.

Today we find her hopped up on her own coffee and avoiding admin, candle-making, social media and doomscrolling at all costs.

Matty Sayer is a former Australian Government (CSIRO) turned tech startup Director of Marketing who’s taking a sabbatical from Silicon Valley to traverse all 50 states of the USA.

Today we find him going from state-to-state moderating Facebook groups in the morning, to listening to an unholy amount of self-help podcasts across the day.

Unsurprisingly, SKMG’s own Neil Shoebridge has written far too many words for our second iteration of COMMPRESS: MediaDiet. The media consumption confessional continues – in somewhat longer form – this week because we wouldn’t dare edit his words too deeply.

Welcome to the latest iteration of COMMPRESS: MediaDiet.

First up is Scott Dooley: comedian, writer, and radio presenter who you’ll likely recognise from his long tenure at Triple J. These days he lives in Brooklyn with his wife, contributing to The New Yorker with cartoonist Jason Chatfield, with whom he co-hosts the podcast, Is There Something In This?