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.

APN News & Media said it would consider progressing its plans to launch an initial public offer for its New Zealand unit, NZME., some time in the New Year.

Rupert Murdoch prepares to complete the merger of his British, Italian and German pay-TV companies next week.

The New Zealand Herald and nzherald.co.nz have recorded another strong result in the latest readership figures, with our combined print and online audience lifting to 844,000 readers a day and 1.34....

Latest readership figures show our combined print and online audience lifting to 844,000 readers a day and 1.34 million across the week.

Billionaire Gina Rinehart has quit the board of the Ten Network to focus on the construction of her giant iron ore project.

Kiwi pop sensation Lorde has graced her second Billboard magazine cover in less than two years.

The subscription video-on-demand service Neon is the brightest light in the new Sky TV product lineup announced last week. The new service will offer movies, and TV shows such as Girls, Fargo and True Blood.

Facebook has pulled down a page featuring a screen shot of women’s breasts used in a highly successful cancer awareness campaign.

Te Arawa kaumatua Sir Toby Curtis has confirmed there have been talks between Maori TV and the Rotorua District Council and other iwi on a plan for studios in Rotorua.

Complaints that a breast cancer ad was 'too explicit' and should've come with a warning have been dismissed by the Advertising Standards Authority.

MediaWorks chief executive Mark Weldon will be hoping the new Paul Henry double breakfast show helps the company find new investors, writes John Drinnan.

A combined breakfast show on TV3 and RadioLive will be a massive change to the breakfast media landscape, writes John Drinnan.

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

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.

APN is still considering floating its NZ media unit with a board appointment announcement this afternoon expected to show the Australian parent isn't considering a trade sale.

TV One may have adopted a "kamikaze programming" strategy by scheduling My Kitchen Rules to clash with TV3's The Block, according to an advertising consultant.

Blogging coupled with social media dissemination is brilliant; perhaps the greatest democratising force of our time, writes Chris Barton.

Miranda Kerr sparked controversy last week when she appeared in Japanese Vogue dressed in a kimono.

Britain's Sunday Mirror is under pressure to explain the details of its Twitter sting where it used a fake 'PR girl' to engage tweets from a Tory MP - who sent her graphic pics.

TV and some radio reporters increasingly imagine themselves as celebrities, writes Pam Corkery. "The words 'big fish' and 'small pond' shout out."

Defamation and media standards expert John Burrows, QC, is to meet with the Press Council to examine the implications for media regulation of the "dirty politics" scandal.

Fashion magazine Marie Claire has apologised for featuring a non-Maori model wearing a sacred Maori tattoo in its October issue.

An Auckland academic says a fashion magazine’s use of a Maori facial tattoo on a non-Maori model is a “cultural insult”.