Newstalk ZB host Rachel Smalley criticism of a "near-monopoly of white male broadcasters " has kicked off a vigorous debate online.

Bianca Zander is a lecturer in creative writing at AUT and recently published her second novel, The Predictions. She talks about leaving her journalism career to write fiction.

Te Karere presenter Anzac Pikia has died, aged 35.

Last week I got a knock on the door. It was a 74-year-old retired truck driver who was checking that I was all right as my column hadn't appeared for two week, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

At an awards event, hosted by accounting firm EY, two of the Herald's reporters have been honored with top awards.

Respected producer Annabelle Lee has resigned from Maori Television's Native Affairs programme, according to former colleague Mihingarangi Forbes.

The future of TV3 news and current affairs rests on the success of the new current affairs show called Story, writes John Drinnan.

Spark was this week given a lesson - if one were needed - that it is dangerous to mix with a toxic brand like the Whale Oil website, writes John Drinnan.

Labour Party folk were stunned when journalist Paddy Gower embarked on a radio tirade, saying the party was "rotten to the core", writes John Drinnan.

It has been a spluttering start for the Paul Henry show and alarm bells should be ringing at MediaWorks, writes John Drinnan.

TV3 management keeps chopping and changing its direction and if I was silly enough to be a TV3 shareholder, I'd be concerned, writes Myles Thomas.

News of Campbell Live's axing was met with widespread condemnation but what are we, the viewing public, losing? Sarah Baker looks at the issues.

Herald on Sunday chief reporter Amy Maas was crowned the country's best crime and justice newspaper feature writer at the 2015 Canon Media Awards on Friday night.

After a full day hearing, a judge has reserved her decision as to whether convicted double murderer Scott Watson can meet a journalist.

Convicted double murderer Scott Watson says after 17 years of silence he now wants the opportunity to speak about his perceived miscarriage of justice.

Joanna Norris is chair of the New Zealand Media Freedom Committee and editor of the Press. The Canon Media Awards to be held on Friday celebrate media freedom.

TV is the equivalent of comics when it comes to serious journalism, although undoubtedly it contributes a useful visual element, but that's it, writes Bob Jones.

Writers protest Hebdo prize Criticism of the PEN American Centre's decision to honour the French magazine Charlie Hebdo continues.

John Campbell and his team have been trying every trick in the book to try to escape TV3's death row.

An Al-Jazeera news presenter who got his break in journalism at 3 News has come out in support of his old colleague John Campbell.

Don't want to see John Campbell leave your TV screen in the evenings? Then put these seven ways to save Campbell Live into action.

There has been much hyperbole in the reaction to a review by broadcaster MediaWorks of its evening current affairs show Campbell Live.

John Key has dismissed Campbell Live, saying viewers were more interested in “light entertainment” such as Seven Sharp at that time of day.

A highly respected public relations person told me this week news is just a humdrum commodity like biscuits, writes Deborah Hill Cone, and that is why MediaWorks shouldn't baulk too much if it has to shut down current affairs programme Campbell Live.

It'd be a barren media landscape without John Campbell and Campbell Live and if Mediaworks doesn't appreciate the team, I hope another broadcaster does, writes Kerre McIvor.

Rolling Stone magazine this week retracted a story of alleged university gang rape after an investigation found it was a “journalistic failure”. Andrew Laxon examines the fallout.

John Campbell has not been afraid to challenge the PM directly where some of his rivals have adopted a more supine stance, writes Fran O'Sullivan.