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.

John Campbell has called in lawyer Linda Clark to fight his corner as MediaWorks confirms the company is looking for a homegrown soap to replace Campbell Live.

Does the demise of Campbell Live signal the end of serious current affairs on prime-time television? Geoff Cumming, Matt Nippert and Phil Taylor report.

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.

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.

At least 10 people have been killed in violent protests in the West African nation of Niger over the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo's depiction of the Prophet Muhammad.

Peter Bromhead's take on the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

'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....

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.

It's an outrage! A shocking abuse of police power! Oh my goodness. The police have raided Nicky Hager's house.

Nicky Hager has claimed the rights of a journalist in response to the police search of his home, and I suppose he is one.

In the wake of Nicky Hager's home being raided to ferret out Rawshark it's become clear that journalists are seen as a source of information by authorities in more ways than

The 10-hour raid on Nicky Hager's house this week gives us a tasty preview of how police could be roped into doing the bidding for higher powers, says Dita de Boni.