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Rachel Glucina: TVNZ demotes <i>Close Up</i> reporter
The dream of being the next Judy Bailey is now a distant possibility for Kate Lynch.

Media: <i>Close Up</i> 'plagiarism' reporter in dispute with TVNZ
The Close Up reporter at the heart of the alleged plagiarism of a US news item...

Alan Cocker: Despite Murdoch the press remains a force for good
The phone-hacking scandal unfolding in Britain is now well and truly out of the bottle and its repercussions are spreading from the deceased News of the World through the British body politic.

Paul Holmes: You just wouldn't read about it
The Murdochs' protestations to MPs this week defied credibility.

Trouble for heir to the empire
James Murdoch gets 'please explain' over discrepancy.

Bryan Gould: The day I lunched with Rupert Murdoch
Press baron's real danger lies in his blatant influence on politicians and global economic policies, writes Bryan Gould

<i>Close Up:</i> 'Let's be frank, we let you down'
TVNZ current affairs show Close Up has apologised over an item it copied from a United States network, saying "we were rightly picked up on"..

Police chief quits, Brooks bailed
Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch's former British newspaper chief, was arrested this morning on suspicion of phone hacking and bribing police, while Britain's top cop also quit as the scandal deepened.

'Close Up' accused of plagiarism
The NZ Herald's Sideswipe column catches out Close Up for 'blatant plagiarism' from a US show.

Deborah Hill Cone: Disgrace takes the fun out of Fleet St
Thanks to the Murdoch papers, clever-dick journalism doesn't look so clever any more.

Kiwi back on job after jail time in Yemen
Kiwi journalist Glen Johnson, freed from jail in Yemen this week, is heading to Egypt to start chasing his next story.

Fiction Addiction: Introducing 'Lost in Shangri-La'
There are two kinds of readers - those who peek at the last page and those who wouldn't dream of it.