[ad_1] Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the majestic Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, died on Friday (Saturday NZT) of cancer, his representative said. He was 43 years old. Boseman died at his home in the Los Angeles …
Read More »Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman dies
[ad_1] List movies like Marshall and the recent Give 5 Bloods, movies that were shot during a period between “countless surgeries and chemotherapy.” But Boseman was arguably best known for his role in Marvel. Black Panther movie. He first appeared as the well-known African American comic book character in 2016 …
Read More »NZME Stuff game goes to court – again
[ad_1] The lengthy saga of the mega-merger of our two top news editors is heading to the High Court, not for the first time. Last time, NZME and Stuff were fighting for the right to reunite. This time, the couple is seriously estranged. NZME’s aggressive search for rival stuff is …
Read More »New Zealand enters coronavirus level 2 when hairdressers open at midnight
[ad_1] New Zealanders welcomed the 51-day closure of their country’s coronavirus on Wednesday at midnight Wednesday, lining up on the street to cut their hair. Companies that include salons, cafes, restaurants, and shopping malls opened their doors in the first hours after the country dropped to ‘level 2’ of its …
Read More »NZME seeks injunction against Stuff owner Nine Entertainment
[ad_1] NZME’s attempt to buy rival Stuff is headed to the High Court as it closes its horns with Australian owner Stuff in the midst of an increasingly bitter process. NZME, owner of the NZ Herald, has petitioned the Auckland High Court for a provisional injunction against Nine Entertainment, which …
Read More »Coronavirus: Jacinda Ardern wary of outbreaks as country moves to ease Covid-19 restrictions
[ad_1] As New Zealand prepares to significantly ease coronavirus restrictions, some countries that have already at least partially released their societies are facing outbreaks in new Covid-19 cases. In a briefing on Tuesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern acknowledged that she was concerned about the possibility that cases in New Zealand …
Read More »All Stuff’s options still on the table after NZME’s curious gambit
[ad_1] ANALYSIS: Pundits have been speculating wildly about the future of Stuff in the wake of a stock exchange announcement from NZME that it had asked for a law change allowing it to buy Stuff for a dollar. But all we really know for sure is that Stuff’s Australian owner, …
Read More »Coronavirus: Jacinda Ardern wary of outbreaks as country moves to ease Covid-19 restrictions
[ad_1] As New Zealand prepares to significantly ease coronavirus restrictions, some countries that have already at least partially released their societies are facing outbreaks in new Covid-19 cases. In a briefing on Tuesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern acknowledged that she was concerned about the possibility that cases in New Zealand …
Read More »All Stuff options still on the table after NZME’s curious gambit
[ad_1] ANALYSIS: Experts have been speculating wildly about Stuff’s future in the wake of the NZME stock exchange announcement that it had called for a change of law allowing it to buy Stuff for a dollar. But all we really know for sure is that Australian Stuff owner Nine would …
Read More »Pattrick Smellie: Nine have told the government that Stuff has borrowed time?
[ad_1] COMMENTARY: Today’s NZME move to try to intimidate the government into urgent legislation to allow its rejected merger with Stuff could work. This is because NZME and Stuff owner Australian Nine Entertainment threaten a much larger and more politically damaging version of Bauer Media’s early April shutdown in New …
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