Some have conjectured that Zendaya Coleman, the 19-year-old singer-actress-dancer, can do no wrong. That assessment has so far proved pretty accurate.

More than $200 million was wiped off Sky TV's market value after the company said annual profit would fall by up to 11 per cent as the business grapples with rising costs and online competition from streaming services such as Netflix.

Profits tipped to fall by as much as 11pc in the 2016 financial year as the company battles to retain customers against the rise of on-demand streaming.

Russian hackers infiltrated the servers of Dow Jones, owner of the Wall Street Journal, and stole information to trade on before it became public.

Sport, movie fans to benefit as Sky combats its cheaper online rivals, writes John Drinnan. The upgrade will be made by downloading apps, or using new set-top boxes where necessary.

A desire for Chinese profits may be behind Playboy's decision to drop nude women from its magazine.

I F***ing Love Science has 22 million likes on its page and appears on most Facebook users newsfeed. But its creator isn't in the mood to sell.

It was hard for some to see the justification in Key's decision to deploy the troops in the first place, writes Cliare Trevett. It is harder still to see how Key will justify a decision to cut and run.

New York Times plans to double its digital revenue in the next four years.

NZ's big media players have formed a new advertising exchange.

A failed magazine publisher has admitted $2m in fraud charges.

Hollywood interests are believed to be behind at least one of the two contenders to develop an Auckland Council-backed film studio at Hobsonville, writes John Drinnan.

Long-serving weather presenter Karen Olsen is leaving TVNZ after more than two decades with the company.

High-profile staff of Radio NZ have been moonlighting on outside money-earners.

The discussion of the looming apocalypse for ad-dependent publishers has been impossible to avoid.

We don't need more people like me, writes Deborah Hill Cone. We don't need more introspective bloggers or writers noodling on about personal crises and cupcakes.

All Blacks coach Steve Hansen may be the best advertisement yet for media training.

There's a problem with the male-female mix on television at 7pm, writes John Drinnan.

This is the age when youth shades into adulthood, writes James Meffan. Much literature that really engages people at this stage in life deals with transition and change.

What this ban highlights, is that far from being the 'poor sister' to fact, fiction can be seen by some, to be just as dangerous, writes Dana Wensley.

The SFO has laid charges against Victor John Clarke, a former director of failed media company MediaWeb, for alleged offending involving $2.2 million.

John Campbell starts work on Monday and Radio New Zealand appears confident that staff tensions over his takeover of Checkpoint have been resolved.

Researchers have come up with a list of words appearing in the financial press that may prove to be parlous augers for stock prices.

The Rugby Union is standing by its exclusive deal with Sky TV to broadcast the Rugby World Cup squad from Parliament.

TVNZ chief executive puts a new twist on TV3 assertions that its news ratings slump has been caused by losing the rights to Home and Away to TVNZ.

Matilda Rice has quit her sales job at MediaWorks to go work for the opposition.

The layoffs come after Michael Bloomberg's return about a year ago following three terms as New York mayor.

Privatisation is unlikely, but the Government is looking at other ways for TVNZ to get friendly with the private sector, writes John Drinnan.