AUCKLAND, Today: Porter Novelli executive director Louise Wright has been promoted to the acting managing director role at the Clemenger Group PR agency following the resignation of Sarah Williams.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Rainger & Rolfe’s Seriously Spicy execution for Texas Chicken has won Stuff’s inaugural The Paper Planes competition, a national event that celebrates the creative possibilities of print.

AUCKLAND, Monday: Special Group has won a pitch for health insurance company Partners Life – previously with Assignment and VMLY&R.

AUCKAND, Today: The February entry window is now open for Lumo’s quarterly digital outdoor creativity competition, the Pixel Awards.

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) …