Rupert Murdoch is back on the front foot but fellow titans the BBC and Facebook yet to recover from own goals.

Self-described contrarian investment firm Allan Gray has emerged as a major player in the media shake-up under way in the Australasian market, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

If newspapers are to stay in business then they have no option but to publish what the public wants to read, ie, content that "sells newspapers", writes Alan Ringwood.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully appoints political lobbyist, and old friend, to board of Antarctic New Zealand.

John Drinnan's media column looks at Paul Henry's chances of a TVNZ close up, and the fallout from a Kiwi newsman's 'Gotcha' tape of Alan Jones.

An outsider tuning in to the Valerie Adams medal ceremony could be excused for thinking Adams came from the small Pacific nation of "ANZ Bank".