John Drinnan: NZ movies making their mark
Auckland's Four Knights Film has emerged as the face of a re-energised film industry.
Auckland's Four Knights Film has emerged as the face of a re-energised film industry.
For over two hundred years in the West, it has often been journalists who have the front line on these issues, digging where others are either ignorant or afraid, writes Alexander Gillespie.
NZ consumers could face higher costs than first predicted as a result of copyright changes in the Trans Pacific Partnership, newly released documents show.
The self-plagiarist tries to take undeserved credit for the work as new and original when they know the material was derived from a previous source, writes Deborah Hill Cone.
The mainstream battle for pay TV subscribers will likely heat up during the New Year.
The night before Christmas, not much was stirring except for the curious issue of 17,084,000 MediaWorks shares to its enigmatic owner.
As observers of the human condition, cartoonists are duty-bound to create and stimulate debate, while underlining the follies of our leaders, writes Rod Emerson. The risk it carries is worth the effort.
John Drinnan predicts 2016 will be an even bigger year for corporates as they adjust to the new ways in which people consume media.
Creditors of magazine publisher Trends Publishing International have won a High Court skirmish against the media company.
TV boss will have to decide if it is worth making another attempt to get taxpayer funding for NZ version of Home and Away.
"This is the best time to be a storyteller," was the message NZ Herald managing editor Shayne Currie brought back to journalists from the World News Media Congress.
Over the years, John Barnett and Dave Gibson have fought to get funding for their respective film and TV dramas.
In the past, a politician saying something factually inaccurate was cause for humiliation. Now there appears to be few consequences, if any, writes Stephen Harrington.
People hold strong views on the topics of immigration, inequality and religion - turns out the facts behind the views are mostly all wrong.
"Season four of The Block may be the best yet," I told her. "People say it's like watching paint dry but on last night's show you could watch concrete dry.
Current affairs programme would be 100% taxpayer funded.
MIKE HOSKING: Accusations about rapists and murderers are't going to dent the Government - but rising unemployment will.
$90 million Hobsonville development plan abandoned partly due to big housing crisis.
This will likely be the article no one will want to read, writes Johann Go. It is going to be the viewpoint that challenges the media and public orthodoxy surrounding the Paris attacks. This article challenges the current state of our world.
Campbell Live had made several unsuccessful requests to interview a member of the Gloriavale community prior to the reporter's visit.
Cause or coincidence? TV3's story barely establishes coincidence. It certainly doesn't show correlation. The idea of cause is laughable, writes Adam Smith.
The Mt Wellington movie pirating operation shut down by Hollywood studios was run by a New Zealand representative sportsman.
Your cellphone sits inside the front of a cardboard viewer very close to the eyes. You view its split screen through a pair of simple embedded lenses, Richard McLachlan.
Hollywood studios are all Secret Squirrel about the identity of the alleged international movie pirate who ran the YTS and YIFY websites.
One of Auckland's biggest corporate relocations is about to begin, as 850 people shift into the new NZME Central building at 151 Victoria St over the next few weeks.
News media in other free countries would be amazed at the restrictions on reporting deaths in New Zealand by suicide.
From the photocopy machine to the after-work drinks, MediaWorks' boss Mark Weldon is a pervasive influence at the broadcaster he has run for a year.