Radio Hauraki's high-profile new host says the station has become "crap" and drastic change is needed - including widening playlists out from rock.

I was once "the most hated woman in New Zealand". In April 2000, writes Deborah Hill Cone. I chose to name the policeman who shot a young young man called Stephen Wallace in Waitara.

Former shock jock Iain Stables says prank calls are here to stay as the fallout continues from an ill-fated Australian radio prank.

This past weekend, we saw the media - old, new, and social - trying to digest the indigestible, writes Patrick Stokes. The death of Jacintha Saldanha.

The radio hosts behind a prank call to the Duchess of Cambridge's hospital say the thought they may have played a part in a nurse's death is "gutwrenching".

The shockwave caused by the death of UK nurse Jacintha Saldanha after a prank call by two Aussie DJs could mean changes on the airwaves in New Zealand.

Two Australian radio disc jockeys have apologised after impersonating Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles in a prank call.

Television New Zealand reportedly faced "internal opposition" in its newsroom over proposals to offer Paul Henry a role fronting the replacement to Close Up.

Kim Hill has hosted Radio NZ Saturday Morning Show for a decade. Hill was last week awarded “radio personality of the year” in the International Media Excellence Awards.

Veteran Aussie broadcaster Alan Jones says "21st Century cyber bullying'' is the reason all commercials have been pulled from his radio breakfast show.

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.

The former enfant terrible of New Zealand broadcasting is happy in his new Hauraki timeslot.

John Drinnan asks why are taxpayers set to fund a second overseas format talent show while public broadcasting collapses around our ears?

Paul Holmes went into hospital expecting keyhole surgery on his heart. He never dreamed he would instead endure open heart surgery.

Paul Holmes' wife, Deborah, says the outlook is very bright for the veteran broadcaster, who came out of an induced coma yesterday..