The Herald is reaching 1.3 million people in print and digitally across the week, latest figures released by Nielsen show today.

It's ironic that just as Western societies, including our own, are becoming agitated over perceived threats to the freedom of the press and freedom of communication, the Washington Post newspaper has been acquired by Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bez

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says he has evidence that the police wanted to access his phone records during the teapot tape investigation.

Police have seized the text messages of a photo-journalist involved in the "teapot tape" saga, including exchanges with his family, his lawyer and journalists.

The Defence Force may have a legitimate role in maintaining the military strength of the nation but since when was its job to suppress information?

"An indescribable scene is occurring on the main road leading out of Napier," the Herald reported on February 5, 1931.

The grainy film captures the soldier as he shoots from his vantage point on top of the yellow stone building.

'Why shouldn't you, Mr Greenwald, be charged with a crime?' A question the journalist who broke NSA surveillance story faced from one of his own.

I was too scared to open my laptop much of last week because of the vitriol hissing out. Deborah Hill Cone explains her comments about female journalists.

At the Canon Media Awards, the title of best newspaper inserted magazine is usually scooped by the glossier parts of the paper: lifestyle, recipes and celebrities.

For an industry corroded by criminality and scoured by fast-evolving technology, journalism professor Mark Pearson has some hopeful advice.

Whither print journalism? It's a question that's been asked ever since the mid 90s.

After an immensely long labour, Australian Communication Minister Stephen Conroy has produced a media policy mouse with a modest roar.

Guyon Espiner and Duncan Garner have done some intelligent television in their different ways. When they teamed up on TV3 for a programme billed "a new kind of current affairs", I looked forward to it.

For the past two years, former editor David Hastings has been poring over original pages of Auckland's first newspapers at the Auckland Museum as part of research for his new book.

Michele Hewitson interviews Ian Wishart, controversial editor of Investigate magazine.