Dozens of South Taranaki pensioners ditched the slippers and bingo in favour of laser strike weapons and virtual reality goggles at an Ageing Disgracefully event in Normanby yesterday.

Mediawatch – Jacinda Ardern and her family attracted plenty of attention in New York this week, but did the media mistake international interest for genuine influence asks Colin Peacock.

Mediawatch: The bid to combine New Zealand’s two biggest publishers of news is all but over. Colin Peacock looks at why and what comes next.

Director Peter Jackson could furnish a “powerful” testimony supporting an actress’s lawsuit against film producer Harvey Weinstein, her attorney says.

Award-winning US playwright Neil Simon, known for works such as The Odd Couple and The Goodbye Girl, has died in New York.

Newshub’s early reveal of Simon Bridges’ big travel bill created a political drama for the rest of the media this week but the handling of the leak also sparked a pushback from some in the media.

TVNZ has removed a documentary that claims Celts settled New Zealand thousands of years before the arrival of Māori from its on demand service

Mediawatch – Two online provocateurs from Canada sparked a debate about free speech and hate speech here without ever setting foot in the country.

RNZ has been allocated $4.5 million of extra funding for this financial year of the $15m allocated in the Budget for public media.

Mediawatch – John Campbell joined RNZ determined to lure TV viewers to Checkpoint. Three years later he’s heading back to TV and leaving media pondering precisely why, Colin Peacock writes.