Within 50 years, the dead are expected to outnumber the living on Facebook. Max Towle asks if being ‘friends’ with our deceased loved ones helps or hinders the grieving process.

Scientists say that 5G is safe, but a small, vocal group of people insist it causes cancer. Susan Strongman speaks to two of the rollout’s most rowdy opponents.

The Spinoff has announced the launch of The Spinoff Members, a new venture for the company and a first for a New Zealand media brand.

Labour came to power promising big boosts to public broadcasting but last week’s Budget offered only stop-gap increases “pending major policy decisions.”

NZME’s punt on the paywall appears to be paying off, with CEO Michael Boggs saying New Zealanders have put a high value on the importance of quality journalism by backing NZ Herald’s digital news subscription service – the paywall has reached 10,000 subscribers in just six weeks.

Every Saturday for the last 16 years, the Weekend Herald’s glossy lift-out lifestyle magazine, Canvas has indulged readers with its signature blend of leisurely weekend content while sister lift-out Weekend has given readers a rundown on the weekend’s happenings. Now, the pair are joining forces to make a one-stop-shop lift-out for weekend content. We chat with NZME Weekend magazines editor Sarah Daniell about shaking things up.

PHD Group has announced the appointment of Nick Scott as strategic partnerships director, and the promotion of PHD group business director Helen Brown to group investment director.

MediaWork’s FY 2018 results are out and with a net loss after tax of $5.5 million, the company is showing signs of moving towards profitability.

Facebook’s role in the Christchurch terror attacks, and Mark Zuckerberg’s placid response, brought with it widespread condemnation. Now the social media giant has finally responded to the public scrutiny by banning users from live streaming if they “violate our most serious policies” and invested $7.5 million in research to improve video analysis technology. Idealog asked local social media experts whether the world’s most powerful company could have done more to prevent social media hate crimes.

Facebook is tightening its rules around live-streaming in direct response to the Christchurch terror attack.

NZME’s move to put a paywall on NZHerald.co.nz has been labelled “bold” and “brave”. In the wake of its implementation, we talk to premium content editor Miriyana Alexander about how it came into play and what it means for readers and advertisers.

Infrastructure investor Infratil is teaming up with a Canadian investment firm to buy the local operations of Vodafone for $3.4 billion.

Major New Zealand news organisations, including RNZ, have agreed to protocols for covering the trial of the person charged for the Christchurch mosque attacks.

GfK’s first non-commercial radio survey of 2019 is out, showing Radio New Zealand’s audience is up 60,000 year-on-year to reach 696,600 New Zealanders each week, while RNZ National’s 616,200 listeners makes it the biggest station in the country.

The New Zealand Herald’s publisher NZME has announced digital subscriptions will be available from next week. Online readers will have to pay $5 a week for everything the Herald has to offer.

With Three holding its eleventh consecutive week at the top for the crucial 25-54 demographic, we chatted to head of content Andrew Szusterman about how the lineup is appealing to the masses and what’s coming in the future.

Creative agency Augusto and 23-year-old film maker and Voices of Hope co-founder Jazz Thornton have joined forces to kickstart a conversation around youth suicide. The duo have recently released Jessica’s Tree, a web documentary series hosted on the NZ Herald and Youtube that examines the last 24 hours of the life of Jessica, one of Thornton’s friends who took her own life. The series carefully balances tragedy and hope, and has been produced by Augusto and directed by Thornton. Here, Thornton and Augusto executive producer Cass Avery talk telling this sensitive story, social advocacy and using a creative medium to create change.

Bunnings is to launch a New Zealand version magazine Bunnings Magazine in July, with Lisa Morton appointed as editor.

The finalists for the 2019 Voyager Media Awards were announced earlier this week, with Stuff taking the lion’s share of nominations with a total of 84 nominations across 63 categories. Rival media company NZME goes into the awards with 55 nominations.

Mindshare has been appointed as Tourism New Zealand’s global media agency partner.

Last month, TVNZ’s Duke celebrated its third birthday. Having been born at a time when the term ‘TV is dying’ was no stranger to headlines, its creation was a confident move from TVNZ, which compared the channel to a lab of experiments. Now, we check in with Duke and TVNZ 2 controller/programmer Edward Kindred to see if that experimenting has paid off and if people have been tuning in or tuning out.

Wrestler co-founder and chief executive Ben Forman has slipped into the 2019 Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list at the ripe old age of 29. Forman is one of only six New Zealanders to make the list this year, and the only Kiwi in the media, marketing & advertising category. We chat to him about life as a young CEO and his vision for the future.

Sky Network Television’s former chief executive John Fellet is stepping down from the board, following other executives out the door.

One year into NZME’s OneRoof, the real estate website has gone from strength-to-strength. We sat down with chief digital officer Laura Maxwell to chat about how the platform has grown, why it works and where to next.