Television New Zealand boss Rick Ellis's $140,000 credit card spending in two years sounds high, Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman says, but he will reserve judgment until he hears from the state broadcaster's board today.

Public sector bosses have racked up thousands of dollars on fine dining.

Mediaworks wants to put TV and radio news operations under one roof.

Paul Henry says he feels "37 and three months" and has the hair of a 40-year-old.

Auckland University senior lecturer Sue Abel addresses the issue of balance in TV news, and the relative lack of Maori voices in mainstream news bulletins, in the third in a series of lectures discussing the state and future of journalism.

TVNZ has used figures showing the rising popularity of its 6pm news to fire an attack on its rival TV3's "smoke, mirrors and big marketing campaigns".

TVNZ is looking for kiwi Lego Masters for an NZ version of the global phenomenon. Video / TVNZ

News bosses set a new course for current affairs show Sunday but smooth-talking TVNZ journalist Cameron Bennett has decided to jump ship.

Ex-journalist Janet Wilson reckons the current crop of female TV reporters provide little more than great 'eye-candy'.

Mark Irving: It's men treated as sex symbols and in some cases downright idiots!

Does Murdoch have his eye on Sky TV?

A staff shake-up at TVNZ will put more focus on editing and packaging at the expense of analysis and journalistic groundwork, says Labour's broadcasting spokesman.

Around 31 news and current affairs roles are being disestablished in TVNZ's latest round of cuts, which it hopes will save $3 million a year.

An ongoing media feud has escalated into a very public - and rather entertaining - online slanging match.

David Fane has been suspended from his Radio Network job for a week for offensive comments made during an expletive-laden rant last week.

Viewers rated the Wahine disaster as the biggest local news story of the past 50 years in a TVNZ poll.

The apparent haste in its preparation seeped through this two-hour One News special which attempted to be exhaustive but just came out exhausting.