New Zealand’s interactive media and gaming industry grew 40 percent a year in the past six years, and could be worth $1 billion by 2024 if supported, a report says.

Mediawatch – Do reports of widespread discontent among the nation’s gun owners stack up, when thousands of weapons have been peacefully surrendered, asks Colin Peacock.

Mediawatch: Last week the Sunday Star-Times ran an article asking the question: Is the New Zealand media eco-friendly? It was more an environmental stock-take of the media businesses themselves than an analysis of their editorial commitme…

Mediawatch: Once upon a time our major media companies and telcos were none of each others’ business. Now they are all up in each others’ business because of ‘convergence’ driven by digital technology and the internet.

Thirty years on, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing is as urgent as ever, says Dan Slevin.

Mediawatch: Broadcasters say their political polls aren’t perfect but they do reveal significant swings of support. In that case, they ought to notice more and more people don’t like being asked to pick a ‘preferred prime minister’.

Mediawatch Back in the day, nudity on TV was rare and the isolated sightings were almost national events. There’s plenty of it available on-demand and on any device these days, but does it do us harm?

Amazon’s games streaming platform Twitch has lost one of its biggest stars to a rival site owned by Microsoft.

Corny “dad jokes” actually become funnier when they are followed by recordings of laughter, researchers say.

Forty years ago this week a milestone meeting of scientists led to the first comprehensive report on climate change science. Forty years later, media outlets around the world – including Stuff – have hooked up to boost coverage of the issue global…