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.

New Zealand business owners with a story to tell the world can now access funds and video production resources to help share their messages globally.

Palmerston North-based cinema advertising network Screen Vistas – independently NZ-owned and a major player in the marketplace for the past 28 years – has won a tender for exclusive national advertising rights for Reading Cinemas in New Zealand.

Here’s a tribute you won’t read in any daily paper – it’s rock’n’roller Larry Morris’s account of the last hours he spent at the deathbed of pioneering Kiwi pop legend Ray Columbus.

Z Energy was the big winner at last night’s 2016 Deloitte Top 200 Business Awards at the Vector Arena, taking out the Company of  the Year Award, and CEO of the Year (for Z’s Mike Bennetts). Spark, Chorus, ACC, Zespri, Synlait, and ASB also featured among the winners.