New Zealand Geographic magazine has unveiled its finalists for 2014 Photographer of the Year. A total of 42 images and stories were whittled down from more than 3000 entries received in the competition across four categories – Society and Culture, Wildlife, Landscape and Photo Story.

The Magazine Publishers Association has today announced the finalists for the industry’s annual awards, which take place in Auckland on Thursday 25 September.

No Hollywood star deaths in the modern era have hit Kiwis this hard. Pages and pages of coverage in this morning’s papers, and on TV and radio all yesterday. Humanity oozed out of every pore of Robin Williams. Here are three of his best recent commercials – many might say they are among the most moving TV ads ever made.

The NZ office of global media agency Vizeum (part of the Dentsu Aegis Network) has been appointed by Red Bull for all media strategy, planning and buying duties across New Zealand following a competitive pitch.

Quentin Tarantino, Bob Weinstein, Ben Afflick and J J Abrams have joined other global directors to make long-term commitments to using cinema film supplied by the last chemical film company left standing in the world – Kodak.

Also catching our eye in the latest Herald on Sunday was a remarkably even-handed piece on the Israeli-Gaza conflict, from one of the paper’s best columnists, Paul Thomas.