They're about to start hosting a new late night news show together - but David Farrier and Samantha Hayes will also be heading home together after each episode.

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.

A bitter row has erupted among top writers over the decision to award a top prize for freedom to Charlie Hebdo.

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.

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.

John Campbell has called in lawyer Linda Clark to fight his corner as MediaWorks confirms the company is looking for a homegrown soap to replace Campbell Live.

Does the demise of Campbell Live signal the end of serious current affairs on prime-time television? Geoff Cumming, Matt Nippert and Phil Taylor report.

Journalist Nick Davies pulled at a thread and everything unravelled, exposing the British tabloid phone-hacking scandal. Next month he is in NZ for the Auckland Writers Festival.

The most popular song on Anthonie Tonnon's previous album Up Here For Dancing was Marion Bates Realty.

Boris Nemtsov is not the first Russian dissident to die in mysterious circumstances in recent years. These rebels also paid with their lives.

Sarah Stuart interviews journalist Lisa Owen.

I've always found something both annoying and reassuring about Brian Williams, bannered by American pundits as the most trusted face on US news television.

Disturbing images appear to show a man charged with having a homosexual affair being stoned to death after he survived being thrown off a building.

The family of freed Australian journalist Peter Greste won't say when he'll be home, saying their top priority is protecting his mental health after 400 days in jail in Egypt.