AUCKLAND, Friday: The radio industry has decided the 2020 NZ Radio Awards will not be proceeding as a live event this year – for obvious reasons.

AUCKLAND, Today: Recruitment agency 3rdeye has established a Covid-19 agency support network to help work remotely with agency teams, or the type of feedback from clients.

AUCKLAND, Today: Indie design & ad agency Run has launched www.paywhatyouwant.co.nz, offering to build quality websites for businesses for a pay-what-you-want fee.

PARIS, Today: France-based British journalist Mark Tungate has issued an updated Adland – A Global History of Advertising (2nd Edition) – a groundbreaking examination of modern advertising, from its origins in the 19th century to the evolution of the current advertising landscape.

SYDNEY, Today: Two large AU/NZ magazine publishers are about to merge, following approval from Australia’s competition watchdog, which has this morning given the green light to Bauer Media’s bid to purchase Seven West Media’s Pacific Magazines.

AUCKLAND, Today: “Blacksand remains open,” screamed the headline in the latest TVNZ email flyer. “Just because you’re locked in, doesn’t mean we’re shut down!

LONDON, Wednesday: Melbourne Business School adjunct professor of marketing Mark Ritson – a respected commentator on the NZ ad-media scene – writes (in UK Marketing Week): “The first lesson of the coronavirus crisis that now engulfs us is to shut the fuck up and let the experts guide us.

AUCKLAND, Today: The National Business Review has canned its weekly print edition and moved to a fully digital-based subscription.

AUCKLAND, Today: The New Zealand PR Institute has opened up its jobs board to everyone who is seeking a job/project work, or to advertise a role – free of charge (in more normal times it’s a members-only service).