MediaWorks says its new digital audio streaming platform rova will go live in January. The platform brings together all MediaWorks’ radio entertainment stations into one app, offering New Zealanders a streamlined way to access rite Kiwi radio content in a digital environment.

NZ’s Val Morgan has challenged claims – published in M+AD Monday – from indie chain Screen Vistas owner Lisa Matena that hers is the “largest cinema network in New Zealand”.

Christchurch web design studio Sons & Co have designed a new website for Britomart-based customer behaviour insights agency TRA.

Yahoo Platforms NZ has released new audience data for New Zealand brands about the digital daily habits of their audiences, as well as broader information about their lives across automotive, food and health, finance, entertainment, travel and purchase behaviour.

Taika Waititi and Curious Films’ hit movie Hunt for the Wilderpeople has been named No 1 Best Movie of the Year by the UK’s biggest-selling and most influential magazine, Bauer’s Empire (also published in the US, Australia, Turkey, Russia, Italy and Portugal).

Veteran newsman ‘Flash’ Gordon McBride – one of the last of NZ’s old-school newspapermen –died “peacefully” in Wellington yesterday, aged 65, after a battle with cancer.

Getty Images has released its retrospective Year in Focus 2016 Collection – a curation of the most defining images of 2016. Year in Focus 2016 showcases 2016’s most important moments in the world of news, sport, entertainment and archive anniversaries and obituaries.

Creating a brand identity for a new, weekly free print publication that would catch the eye of the digitally native ‘urban adventurer’ required a design ethos that would arrest the attention of this much vied-for audience, says Bauer commercial director Paul Gardiner.

Although Tim Murphy – former New Zealand Herald editor-in-chief and co-founder of soon-to-be-launched digital news offering Newsroom – has written about the proposed merger between Fairfax NZ and NZME, he hasn’t previously stated his personal view. Now, thanks to NBR Online, he’s gone public.