Not all journalism is meant to last forever. Some of it is about as memorable as my kids' diary entries, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Hello and welcome to this, my 50th column for the Herald. Wow ... listen to those trumpets sounding.

The Herald on Sunday's new editor will be leading Auckland journalist Miriyana Alexander.

It will be a comment that could go down in broadcasting history - or be quickly forgotten in an avalanche of emotion and images.

An epic journey to the heart of New Zealand is underway in search of Kiwis' greatest stories to celebrate the New Zealand Herald's 150th anniversary.

Great newspapers are all about their readers, not their journalists.

The TVNZ America's Cup coverage - which has been described as 'choppy' - needs to get some wind in its sails to ensure this is a huge event, writes John Drinnan.

One of the top journalists working in global hotspots says she faces a constant battle to avoid surveillance in war zones.

I am struggling, despite my best efforts, to work myself up into much of a lather over a journalist's phone log and emails being handed across by mistake to a Prime Ministerial inquiry.

When the Washington Post's entire staff was summoned by chief executive Donald Graham to a meeting at 4.30pm on Monday, many assumed he was announcing the sale of the newspaper's downtown office, its prize asset.

The Herald is reaching 1.3 million people in print and digitally across the week, latest figures released by Nielsen show today.

It's ironic that just as Western societies, including our own, are becoming agitated over perceived threats to the freedom of the press and freedom of communication, the Washington Post newspaper has been acquired by Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bez

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says he has evidence that the police wanted to access his phone records during the teapot tape investigation.

Police have seized the text messages of a photo-journalist involved in the "teapot tape" saga, including exchanges with his family, his lawyer and journalists.

The Defence Force may have a legitimate role in maintaining the military strength of the nation but since when was its job to suppress information?

"An indescribable scene is occurring on the main road leading out of Napier," the Herald reported on February 5, 1931.

I was too scared to open my laptop much of last week because of the vitriol hissing out. Deborah Hill Cone explains her comments about female journalists.

I've been reading my kids a book called Maude by Lauren Child, but I think it might make a cautionary tale for journalists.

Fairfax Media is set to scrap Computerworld, NZ PC World and Reseller News magazines next week, writes John Drinnan. "They have been marginal for some time," said Fairfax Magazines general manager Lynley Belton.

At the Canon Media Awards, the title of best newspaper inserted magazine is usually scooped by the glossier parts of the paper: lifestyle, recipes and celebrities.

For an industry corroded by criminality and scoured by fast-evolving technology, journalism professor Mark Pearson has some hopeful advice.

Whither print journalism? It's a question that's been asked ever since the mid 90s.

After an immensely long labour, Australian Communication Minister Stephen Conroy has produced a media policy mouse with a modest roar.

Guyon Espiner and Duncan Garner have done some intelligent television in their different ways. When they teamed up on TV3 for a programme billed "a new kind of current affairs", I looked forward to it.

For the past two years, former editor David Hastings has been poring over original pages of Auckland's first newspapers at the Auckland Museum as part of research for his new book.

Michele Hewitson interviews Ian Wishart, controversial editor of Investigate magazine.