John Campbell and his team have been trying every trick in the book to try to escape TV3's death row.

An Al-Jazeera news presenter who got his break in journalism at 3 News has come out in support of his old colleague John Campbell.

Don't want to see John Campbell leave your TV screen in the evenings? Then put these seven ways to save Campbell Live into action.

There has been much hyperbole in the reaction to a review by broadcaster MediaWorks of its evening current affairs show Campbell Live.

John Key has dismissed Campbell Live, saying viewers were more interested in “light entertainment” such as Seven Sharp at that time of day.

A highly respected public relations person told me this week news is just a humdrum commodity like biscuits, writes Deborah Hill Cone, and that is why MediaWorks shouldn't baulk too much if it has to shut down current affairs programme Campbell Live.

It'd be a barren media landscape without John Campbell and Campbell Live and if Mediaworks doesn't appreciate the team, I hope another broadcaster does, writes Kerre McIvor.

Rolling Stone magazine this week retracted a story of alleged university gang rape after an investigation found it was a “journalistic failure”. Andrew Laxon examines the fallout.

John Campbell has not been afraid to challenge the PM directly where some of his rivals have adopted a more supine stance, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Journalist Nick Davies pulled at a thread and everything unravelled, exposing the British tabloid phone-hacking scandal. Next month he is in NZ for the Auckland Writers Festival.

The most popular song on Anthonie Tonnon's previous album Up Here For Dancing was Marion Bates Realty.

Boris Nemtsov is not the first Russian dissident to die in mysterious circumstances in recent years. These rebels also paid with their lives.

Sarah Stuart interviews journalist Lisa Owen.

I've always found something both annoying and reassuring about Brian Williams, bannered by American pundits as the most trusted face on US news television.

Disturbing images appear to show a man charged with having a homosexual affair being stoned to death after he survived being thrown off a building.

The family of freed Australian journalist Peter Greste won't say when he'll be home, saying their top priority is protecting his mental health after 400 days in jail in Egypt.

Japan says the death of journalist Kenji Goto is an 'atrocious act' as Isis threatens to kill a Jordanian pilot if a female prisoner isn't returned by Friday.

'Je suis Aotearoa." It has a certain piquant charm and would get a great deal of public attention if it was chosen as the branding to unite New Zealanders of all hues, nationalities, races and....

Zealots are dangerous because there is a deadness in their soul. To be human is to grapple with doubt, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

A stint as a schoolyard human billboard urging teachers to vote for United Future sparked a political passion that has led to a dream job for television journalist Heather du Plessis-Allan.

It has become one of the hallmarks of the news now. Whenever there is a dramatic event, social media instantly comes alive with comment and conjecture as facts vie for attention with fiction.

The Newsroom has had a fraught relationship with critics, mostly because of the tendency of the drama's characters to repeatedly, condescendingly explain what journalism really is.

Mass media, citizen media, new media, and politician media management - it all gets frequently evaluated, criticised and sometimes praised, writes Bryce Edwards.

Maori Television has appointed veteran journalist Maramena Roderick to the position of interim head of news and current affairs.

New Zealand Herald sports editor at large Dylan Cleaver tonight cleaned up the print and online categories at the Sir Terry McLean National Sports Journalism Awards.

In the weeks and months before he was brutally murdered on camera by militants from Isis, James Foley was beaten, starved, subjected to mock executions and even waterboarded by his captors.

A friend rang me recently and laughingly told me I had been pilloried by a blogger over articles I had written.