APN News & Media has bought out its partner in a Hong Kong outdoor advertising joint venture for A$14 million.

Rupert Murdoch is bidding to create by far the world's largest film and television company with an attempted takeover of Time Warner.

A comment to a reporter that he was selling all his companies and giving the money to charity was a polite way of telling him to 'f-off', says Navman founder Peter Maire.

'Oh, you work at Consumer, what a wonderful organisation. My parents used to get Consumer magazine."

A NZ on Air report into media consumption has concluded that kiwis are sticking to traditional platforms despite the big push toward to digital.

Julie Christie has sold off the Living and Food channels to Discovery Networks, leaving MediaWorks staff with the prospect that she might apply for the soon-to-be-vacant chief executive's role.

MediaWorks group chief executive officer, Sussan Turner has resigned after 30 years with the company - going back to the days when it was controlled by Steven Joyce.

Fairfax Media has reached agreement with rival APN News & Media to have its newspapers printed at APN's modernised print facility in Auckland.

Tony O’Reilly, the Irish businessman whose investments once stretched to the NZ Herald newspaper, has asked for more time to sell assets to repay debts.

TV3 owner MediaWorks Holdings is opposing Auckland Transport in the Environment Court over conditions for the $2.86 billion City Rail Link.

State TV bosses point proudly to improved ratings, but signs are, that after a succession of problems, TVNZ journalist morale is numbed, says John Drinnan.

The state broadcaster has confirmed it is planning another restructure of news and current affairs, writes John Drinnan. Some positions are expected to be disestablished, and an announcement is imminent.

Music and movie giants have joined forces to freeze Kim Dotcom's assets, but they'll have to negotiate conditions first.

An annual outlook on the media and entertainment industry says we're in a new era, where Kiwi consumers no longer differentiate between the traditional and the digital., writes John Drinnan.

Radio New Zealand has conceded there could be redundancies as a result of restructuring plans canvassed with staff today.

TV3's gratuitous clip of John Banks picking his ear was a bad call and the timing couldn't have been worse, writes John Drinnan.

Banks stepped in to save the economic system, writes Bob Jones. Had they not, the world would have descended into anarchy with mass unemployment.

Be it $475,000 or $559,000, why is the top editor at one of journalism's most prestigious institutions paid relatively so little?

Radio New Zealand is expected to restructure management at the end off the month.

Footage has emerged of the brawl between Australian media mogul James Packer and Nine boss David Gyngell which shows three men trying to restrain the pair.

If it hadn't been for a fortuitously placed paparazzo, who caught the 'Battle of Bondi' on camera, people might never have believed how Aussie's most powerful men settled scores.

A blogger and political consultant to Mana and the Internet Party has warned he will not support closer ties with the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party.

John Drinnan writes in his media column that NZ's biggest newsroom has taken the unusual step of setting up a register to formally identify 'risks' in its coverage.