Former NZX boss Mark Weldon is taking over as CEO of Mediaworks, the company which owns TV3, Four and controls half of the country's commercial radio market.

Imagine a plane is taking off from Heathrow Airport. It crashes on the runway. Do you continue to film the burning aircraft or pan away?

Former motorsport boss Max Mosley may serve an injunction on Google over the continued publication of images of him taken at an orgy.

AP announced that it is now publishing stories on corporate earnings based on an algorithm that aggregates data - machines rather than humans will be writing more of these stories.

APN says the technical foundation is nearly complete for its move to a paywall for nzherald.co.nz.

Murdoch had been organising the biggest deal of his career: a US$80 billion ($92.2 billion) bid for Time Warner by 21st Century Fox, his entertainment company.

Ten years ago, Pita Sharples - now Minister of Maori Affairs - said he wanted to see an end to mangled te reo words used in Parliament and in mainstream media broadcasts.

APN News & Media has bought out its partner in a Hong Kong outdoor advertising joint venture for A$14 million.

Rupert Murdoch is bidding to create by far the world's largest film and television company with an attempted takeover of Time Warner.

A comment to a reporter that he was selling all his companies and giving the money to charity was a polite way of telling him to 'f-off', says Navman founder Peter Maire.

'Oh, you work at Consumer, what a wonderful organisation. My parents used to get Consumer magazine."

A late night talkback segment from radio host Mark Staufer that featured foul language has been pulled from RadioLive's website.

A NZ on Air report into media consumption has concluded that kiwis are sticking to traditional platforms despite the big push toward to digital.

Mike Hosking's article in last Friday's Herald attacking the Labour Party and supporting the National Party raises some interesting issues, writes Michael Cullen.

MediaWorks group chief executive officer, Sussan Turner has resigned after 30 years with the company - going back to the days when it was controlled by Steven Joyce.

A senior journalist working for a rival to the News of the World was alleged to be involved in directing a private investigator to hack into the voicemails of Milly Dowler.

Evidence suggests that Rupert Murdoch's News International paid private detectives unlawfully accessed the phone records of a leading IRA mole in hiding.

Fairfax Media has reached agreement with rival APN News & Media to have its newspapers printed at APN's modernised print facility in Auckland.

Auckland Transport mounts lively ad campaign, then undermines it by using shuttle vans to help staff get around instead of public transport.

Editorial: It is common in election years for political parties under pressure to attempt to shoot the messenger. And the Herald's been shot many times.

Playboy is getting more time to transform itself into a licensing company from an aging publisher as readers desert print.

British PM David Cameron has apologised to Parliament for hiring ex-tabloid editor Andy Coulson, convicted yesterday over phone hacking. But now he's in trouble too.

Tony O’Reilly, the Irish businessman whose investments once stretched to the NZ Herald newspaper, has asked for more time to sell assets to repay debts.

TV3 owner MediaWorks Holdings is opposing Auckland Transport in the Environment Court over conditions for the $2.86 billion City Rail Link.