A library in your handbag? Cheaper reading? The salvation of newspapers? Digital publishing promises all that and more. But, reports Karyn Scherer, the future isn't quite here yet.

These studies themselves are not to be trusted - they reinforce prejudices rather than illuminate reality.

The Fijian government is attempting to dictate who controls the island nation's media.

David Fane will have the next couple of weeks to mull over his comments about HIV sufferers and Jews, after being suspended from his radio host job.

Viewers rated the Wahine disaster as the biggest local news story of the past 50 years in a TVNZ poll.

The apparent haste in its preparation seeped through this two-hour One News special which attempted to be exhaustive but just came out exhausting.

bro'Town co-creator and radio star David Fane has apologised for racist and anti-gay remarks he made in a speech but his future may rest on a meeting with his bosses.

This year the Montana NZ Book Awards have become the NZ Post Book Awards, with fewer categories and smaller shortlists.

New Zealand's top broadcasting bureaucrat is tuning out of the sector to be Climate Change Ambassador.

British student Richard Turner is so impressed with Maori TV he's travelled to NZ to find out why it's so successful - especially with Pakeha viewers.

The Italian press were as ungracious after what amounted to a defeat for the Azzurri yesterday.

Perhaps it is our fascination with those on television, or with the fourth estate, but it really is quite amazing how often those involved in the news become the news.

Attorney-General Chris Finlayson believes about 2000km of NZ's coastline will eventually be covered by iwi customary title.