Kiwi pop sensation Lorde has graced her second Billboard magazine cover in less than two years.

The subscription video-on-demand service Neon is the brightest light in the new Sky TV product lineup announced last week. The new service will offer movies, and TV shows such as Girls, Fargo and True Blood.

APN News & Media has appointed brokers Credit Suisse/First NZ and Forsyth Barr to advise the company on the possible IPO and float of NZME.

Facebook has pulled down a page featuring a screen shot of women’s breasts used in a highly successful cancer awareness campaign.

Te Arawa kaumatua Sir Toby Curtis has confirmed there have been talks between Maori TV and the Rotorua District Council and other iwi on a plan for studios in Rotorua.

Complaints that a breast cancer ad was 'too explicit' and should've come with a warning have been dismissed by the Advertising Standards Authority.

A combined breakfast show on TV3 and RadioLive will be a massive change to the breakfast media landscape, writes John Drinnan.

A friend rang me recently and laughingly told me I had been pilloried by a blogger over articles I had written.

NZME. has appointed the former Tower executive Michael Boggs as its new chief financial officer as the company considers an IPO.

The Totalisator Agency Board's new broadcasting general manager, Craig Norenbergs, wants tweeters following the horses.

The 10-hour raid on Nicky Hager's house this week gives us a tasty preview of how police could be roped into doing the bidding for higher powers, says Dita de Boni.

APN is still considering floating its NZ media unit with a board appointment announcement this afternoon expected to show the Australian parent isn't considering a trade sale.

TV One may have adopted a "kamikaze programming" strategy by scheduling My Kitchen Rules to clash with TV3's The Block, according to an advertising consultant.

Blogging coupled with social media dissemination is brilliant; perhaps the greatest democratising force of our time, writes Chris Barton.

TV and some radio reporters increasingly imagine themselves as celebrities, writes Pam Corkery. "The words 'big fish' and 'small pond' shout out."

Defamation and media standards expert John Burrows, QC, is to meet with the Press Council to examine the implications for media regulation of the "dirty politics" scandal.

Fashion magazine Marie Claire has apologised for featuring a non-Maori model wearing a sacred Maori tattoo in its October issue.

An Auckland academic says a fashion magazine’s use of a Maori facial tattoo on a non-Maori model is a “cultural insult”.

The Herald-DigiPoll survey came closest to predicting the final election result, an analysis of the four major polls shows.

Whaleoil blogger says he didn't know all the details about fatal car crash and admits "in hindsight" remark was offensive.

Advertising company Snakk Media has announced the opening of a new division, Represent Media, and signed ESPN as its first major customer.

Some in the media, at least, understand their role as chief prime ministerial defenders against communism of any kind - not like those other churnalists and repeaters, writes Dita De Boni.

Maori Television says there will be no job losses at its news show Te Kaea and changes at the station have been put on hold.