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The online-only edition of Mediawatch, which tackles queries and comments from listeners and updates stories from recent editions of the radio programme. This month - World Cup fever in the media; the… Audio

All Whites draw but PM wins; Greens' main man slammed for pro-Tibet stand; two more views on the future of television; claims a radio presenter's been silenced by politics. Audio

Hounding an under-fire MP; recruiting readers for newsgathering; Freeview and the digital switchover; the All Whites irritate cranky commentators. Audio

Media frenzy over ministers' spending; a TV show hoaxing the news media; more views on TV's 50th anniversary; the end of the Independent. Audio

TVNZ marks 50 years of television with a new channel of shows from the archives. But why is it only on pay TV? And will TVNZ be a public broadcaster in the future? Also: reporting from prison, and… Audio

The online-only edition of Mediawatch, which tackles queries and comments from listeners and updates stories from recent editions of the radio programme. This month - bad maths in the news; budget… Audio

The debate about prisons, and a rare glimpse of what life's like behind bars; Iceland's initiative for media freedom; how a tragedy in 1975 changed attitudes to journalists' safety. Audio

The battle for hearts and minds over smoking - and "crowdsourcing" vs "astroturfing"; politics trumps history in two land rights stories; Hanover's head honcho harshly harassed on holiday; GST… Audio

Reporting two stories which traumatised high school students, a Sunday paper's South African scoop, a NZ star of intelligent reality TV, rugby swearing, female cricketers forced to follow on and… Audio

Left out of the loop for the PM's 'secret' trip to Afghanistan, a broken embargo offshore, the partisan British press pick winners prematurely, reporters testing service at service stations. Audio

Lobbying on the liquor laws, an ANZAC Day tragedy, reports of conflict over promoting peace, bad maths on TV, the spotlight on a rockstar businessman and are working mums really up in arms? Audio

The online-only companion to Mediawatch, taking in queries and comments from listeners and updating some of the recent stories on the programme. This month: more plugging of 'The Pacific'; verdicts on… Audio

How the media make use of social networking websites - and why you need to be careful; why political reporters try to pick winners; misunderstanding the nation's nuclear policy. Audio

Picking over failed finance companies; proposals to curb the media in Fiji; sympathy for the poster boy of dirty dairying; strange reporting from the US. Audio

The increasingly intense scrutiny of elected representatives, an MP interviews a politician for a change, the outcry over aviolent music video, and some seedy statistics. Audio

Investment from China brings forth fears on talkback radio; the media focus on young offenders; a classic hoax; spinning Australia's papers - and keeping British ones afloat. Audio

The online-only companion to Mediawatch, taking in the best of the queries and comments from listeners and updating recent stories from the programme. This month: TV broadcasters plugging their own… Audio

A company in crisis helps out a programme investigating its failures, TV3's pursuit of a date with Destiny Church's top man and Toby Manhire on the explosion of comment published by papers - on paper… Audio

A widely condemned security scare scoop; Joanne Morris on six years in the chair at the outfit upholding broadcasting standards; and how TV channels use the news to plug their upcoming entertainment… Audio

A courageous Kiwi soldier in Afghanistan is hailed as a hero, but how did he end up in the headlines? An Australian initiative offers journalists here a platform to probe their own industry; more… Audio

Sounding the tsunami alert last weekend, RWC TV deal finally done, telling the tale of the Princess Ahsika from Tonga and with politicians' spending under scrutiny, do journalists get a free lunch. Audio

The online-only companion to Mediawatch, taking in listeners' queries and comments and following up on recent stories in the programme. This month: the rights and wrongs of fatal footage in the news… Audio

Does Radio New Zealand need to be "saved" from the government as campaigners are claiming?; the challenge to a made-up climate change quote; journalists' gripes go global online. Audio

Dwelling on a death in the TV news, whats the government expects from the governors of RNZ, a presnter pursuing a personal agenda on the air. Audio

Sunday papers turning tabloid, the media condemn a court ruling shielding a local man from shame and how the PM got bumped by a shamed sportsman while Alan Bollard got gazumped by a pie. Audio