AUCKLAND, Today: Saatchi & Saatchi has appointed Cece Chu as a senior creative. She will be working across a number of the agency’s major creative accounts, with particular focus on Heineken, My Food Bag, The NZ Olympic Committee, and Toyota and Lexus.

AUCKLAND, Friday: The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that it’s appointed Saatchi & Saatchi to handle advertising around the two referenda that are part of this year’s General Election package – Cannabis and Euthanasia*.

AUCKLAND, Today: Another quiet news day, so we’ve padded today’s edition with a few bon mots that caught our eye in the past week …

AUCKLAND, Today: Based on the best-selling novel by Simon Winchester about the birth of the Oxford English Dictionary, the movie The Professor and the Madman comes to NZ next month.

AUCKLAND, Today: Phantom Billstickers have expanded their service to include Australia. We’ll let them tell the story in their own nicely crafted words (via their weekly Phan Mail newsletter) …

AUCKLAND, Today: The Ministry of Justice has appointed Saatchi & Saatchi to deliver information about the euthanasia and recreational cannabis referenda for the ballot at the September 19 election.

AUCKLAND, Today: Entries for the 2020 NZ Radio Awards open on Monday. Entrants are required to register as a user (scroll down for the link).

AUCKLAND, Today: Broadway-based independent NZ advertising & design agency Run is working to transform Auckland City’s Ellen Melville Centre into a rainbow hub.