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Deborah Hill Cone: 'Clickbait' journalism won't survive the years
Not all journalism is meant to last forever. Some of it is about as memorable as my kids' diary entries, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Rhys Darby: We're walking on the wild side of Los Angeles
Hello and welcome to this, my 50th column for the Herald. Wow ... listen to those trumpets sounding.

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

Scrambling for right way to hail the victory
It will be a comment that could go down in broadcasting history - or be quickly forgotten in an avalanche of emotion and images.

Herald duo on trail of tales
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.

People power key to win
Great newspapers are all about their readers, not their journalists.

John Drinnan: Cup coverage needs to improve
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.

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

Rodney Hide: Bags writing the movie script...
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.

Print legend's glow lures digital ace
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.

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

Paul Thomas: Our Kiwi bumblers rate low on threat list
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

Peters: Police wanted my phone records
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 seize Cuppagate texts
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.

Freedom of information serves us best
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?

The facts will always get through - fast
"An indescribable scene is occurring on the main road leading out of Napier," the Herald reported on February 5, 1931.

Deborah Hill Cone: A little self-loathing goes the wrong way
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.

Deborah Hill Cone: Better to blend in than be tempting target
I've been reading my kids a book called Maude by Lauren Child, but I think it might make a cautionary tale for journalists.

John Drinnan: Computer mags face chop
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.

Business counts, for every view
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.

Stick to core values - plea to journalists
For an industry corroded by criminality and scoured by fast-evolving technology, journalism professor Mark Pearson has some hopeful advice.

Print journalism - game set and match?
Whither print journalism? It's a question that's been asked ever since the mid 90s.

Michelle Grattan: Media assault sees Canberra crumple
After an immensely long labour, Australian Communication Minister Stephen Conroy has produced a media policy mouse with a modest roar.

John Roughan: Serious TV should make us sit and think
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.

Read all about 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 Interview: Ian Wishart
Michele Hewitson interviews Ian Wishart, controversial editor of Investigate magazine.