TV3 has appointed Amy Prebble to the new role of Senior Publicist – News & Current Affairs. This is a part-time position reporting into TV3 and FOUR Publicity Manager Jacqui Loates-Haver, responsible for publicising TV3’s News & Current Affairs programmes and people.

Entries for the 2014 TVNZ NZ Marketing Awards close next Friday 23 May at 5pm. But the Marketing Association is offering the alternative of a late entry that pushes the deadline back by one week.

“New Zealand was a quiet place in 1982 and very heavily regulated. At night gangs of bureaucrats and policemen roamed the streets trying to catch people like me and confiscate our paste buckets.

Britomart-based 2D digital animation studio Crayon Animation has relaunched following the return of Creative Director Simon Crane from Ireland.

Fairfax Media has appointed Jonathan Milne as Sundays editor. The award-winning news, features and political journalist will oversee the Sunday Star-Times and Sunday News publications for Fairfax.

Google’s Giles Tuck and Tui’s William Papesch kept an invited audience of 150 agency executives well entertained & illuminated at this morning’s CAANZ PREScom Champion Speaker series at Kensington Swan in Auckland’s Viaduct precinct.

APN NZ has unveiled its new integrated advertising planning & sales function which aims to provide national and agency clients with a seamless group-wide solution across its media assets, including TRN and GrabOne. The company has appointed Nina Bialostocki to develop the function.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau is looking for a part-time chief executive following the resignation of Alisa Higgins, who in July will become an industry consultant providing marketing and strategic advice to publishers, agencies and marketers.

The Magazine Publishers Association has issued its call for entries for the 2014 Magazine Awards.