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.

Susan Wood went through a recovery process to learn to walk, talk, read and eat again after suffering a brain injury.

Oaktree Capital is still backing MediaWorks chief executive Mark Weldon, amid persistent rumours of change at the top, writes John Drinnan.

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.

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.

Mobile advertisement developer Snakk Media plans to tap investors for $2 million and shift over to the fledgling NXT market from the NZAX.

Is it right to be worried about Murdoch's new part stake in National Geographic's media arm?

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.

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.

If I do anything in the various non-journalistic roles I have, it's to promote good people and good ideas and good outcomes, writes Mike Hosking.

Sky TV's emerged from its first year of viable pay TV competition with only a few scratches.

When the Peters-Hosking stoush erupted, many must have asked themselves: whose side should I take or, for that matter, do I have a dog in this fight?

Talk radio tends to have a conservative audience and when he appears in the Herald Hosking's opinion is one of many. But TV has a pervasive influence, writes John Drinnan.

An initial public offer and float of NZME - publisher of the New Zealand Herald - is still a possibility, says the company's owner, Sydney-based APN News & Media.

Revenue at NZME eased by 1 per cent to $214.9 million in the first half to June 30, despite "challenging" market conditions.