NZ work has picked up a further Silver Pencil and four Bronzes on the second day of 43rd Annual One Show Awards in New York City.

Presence in the marketplace earned Cuisine Magazine’s June/July 2015 the Publications category Prize in the 2016 Pride In Print Awards, held at Sky City on Friday night.

Whybin/TBWA NZ has created a $20 million, 12-month global campaign for Air New Zealand and Tourism New Zealand to promote NZ to new and existing international markets and collaboratively grow the value on in-bound tourism.

Entries for the Australasian Catalogue Association’s 25th annual awards, which recognise excellence in catalogue marketing in NZ & Australia, close on Wednesday 1 June.

Claudia Macdonald of Mango, Gina McKinnon of Fuse and Simon Kenny of McDonald’s NZ shared the Supreme Award at last night’s annual Public Relations Institute’s PRINZ Awards in Auckland, for their entry Crave and rave – golden praise drives results for golden arches.

NZ has picked up three Gold Pencils, four Silvers and a Bronze in early results from the 43rd annual One Show Awards at Gotham Hall in New York City overnight.

Blacksand ECD Jens Hertzum, the Media Design School’s Jamie Telford, NZME’s Dallas Gurney, Vice NZ ed Frances Morton, Animation Research’s Ian Taylor, Y&R New York’s Catherine Patterson, and Augusto’s Leon Kirkbeck are among the 25 high-powered NZ and offshore speakers – including who will speak at the Magnify VR & AR South Pacific Summit next week in Auckland.

CAANZ and NZME have released the first hi-res pix of the NZME Best Dressed Male & Female competition winners from last week’s Beacons in Auckland.

The Commerce Commission will have the final say on the APN-Fairfax merger proposal – and how much impact the overwhelmingly negative views of media commentators and hostile journos have on the ultimate decision remains to be seen.