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

Sky News Australia is aiming to expand its New Zealand operations. But it is holding intense discussions with its customer in this country - Sky Television - about who will end up covering the increased costs.

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.

The publisher of the NZ Herald plans to sell 60pc of its New Zealand business, generating gross proceeds of A$309m.

Carrick Graham's new business partners say that "Dirty Politics" allegations about Graham have not hurt their new PR agency.

A fund manager says Australia's APN News & Media may have picked an opportune time to float its Kiwi assets.

The publisher of the New Zealand Herald, has announced it is considering an initial public offer and sharemarket float for its New Zealand business.

Former SFO boss Adam Feeley says he would not have briefed ministers on investigations if he had had any suspicion that information was being leaked to others.

Prime Minister John Key said he believed his campaign was still on track, despite the "bomb" that has been thrown since the release of Dirty Politics.

The Dirty Politics storm has exposed the dangers of advertising on controversial political websites.

The battle of the box is heating up as Spark officially launched its online television service overnight, with 5000 hours of content for $15 a month.

The Financial Markets Authority has contacted stock exchange operator NZX after share traders potentially gained an unfair advantage from price-sensitive information published.

Glowing word of mouth testimonials for the movie The Dark Horse have raised hopes that it will attract international buyers at the Toronto Film Festival next month.

Television entrepreneur Richard Driver has returned to the production sector and has been appointed to head the prolific Greenstone TV.

SkyCity Entertainment is tidying up its corporate image, now it has hundreds of extra poker machines firmly in its sights, writes John Drinnan.

The appointment of former NZX boss Mark Weldon as chief of TV3 owner MediaWorks points towards a future market listing for the broadcasting group, say industry sources.

Former NZX boss Mark Weldon is taking over as CEO of Mediaworks, the company which owns TV3, Four and controls half of the country's commercial radio market.

Imagine a plane is taking off from Heathrow Airport. It crashes on the runway. Do you continue to film the burning aircraft or pan away?

Former motorsport boss Max Mosley may serve an injunction on Google over the continued publication of images of him taken at an orgy.

AP announced that it is now publishing stories on corporate earnings based on an algorithm that aggregates data - machines rather than humans will be writing more of these stories.

APN says the technical foundation is nearly complete for its move to a paywall for nzherald.co.nz.

Murdoch had been organising the biggest deal of his career: a US$80 billion ($92.2 billion) bid for Time Warner by 21st Century Fox, his entertainment company.

TV mogul Julie Christie has placed her Auckland Viaduct-based sports bar on the market, along with her extensive personal collection of sports memorabilia.