Our vacuum cleaner is clogged with long orange hair. When you clean it, you get a little orange mat. This is life living with Samantha Hayes, my colleague and friend of almost a decade.

The Maori Television board last month rejected major changes as it pushed for the appointment of a contentious applicant for the chief executive's job.

The Government is facing flak on two fronts over issues affecting Maori Television, amid staff concerns about plans to realign its news and current affairs department.

Maori broadcasters have weaved a tangled web of politics with upheavals at both Television New Zealand and Maori TV, writes John Drinnan.

The Maori TV board is pushing ahead with plans to appoint controversial broadcaster Paora Maxwell as chief executive in the next two weeks, broadcasting sources say.

Charlotte Dawson said in the New Year, "2014 is going to be productive and I'm determined to lay the foundations for my future." Two months later, she was dead.

The late Princess Diana leaked a royal phone directory to the now defunct News of the World tabloid, its former royal editor has told Britain's phone-hacking trial.

'I'm Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire tyrant, and this is my skybox'. The business and media magnate turns 83 today.

Television New Zealand is unlikely to prod staff about their political affiliations despite controversial proposals put to politicians by TVNZ chief executive and Kevin Kenrick.

At a time when the print media in Australia is under intense economic pressure, last weekend proved to be a super Saturday of change.

I just sort of hitched my thoughts to her death; ill-advisedly, as it turned out, writes Deborah Hill Cone. I asked if it was presumptuous of me to do this. Now I know the answer. It was.

Now that Bauer owns 120 per cent of the nation's newsstand magazines, do we have any independent periodicals left?

Publisher Morry Schwartz knows more than most how the digital revolution has left print media barons haemorrhaging red ink.

Police top brass have suffered from communications cock-ups in the past 12 months.

Charlotte Dawson will be farewelled at a small family-only funeral and cremation service in Sydney this week, but friends will be able to say their goodbyes later.

Telecom's ShowMeTV should cut another chink in Sky Television's armour built up over 25 years of being a pay television monopoly, writes John Drinnan.

The Commerce Commission has announced it will investigate claims that Countdown and its parent company, Woolworths, are engaging in extortionate behaviour.

Shares in APN News & Media surged to an 18-month high when they resumed trading after institutions put up A$112 million in a planned capital raising.

Schapelle Corby has been warned not to do a much-anticipated media interview, after Indonesian authorities said it could end her parole.

Morning Report co-host Simon Mercep will follow his co-host and step down from the show when Geoff Robinson leaves in April.

Twelve Questions talks to Hauraki Breakfast Show host Jeremy Wells who has been on New Zealand TV screens since 1997.

A lot is resting on the success of TV3's cooking show The Great Food Race, so channel bosses are remaining optimistic, writes John Drinnan.

The prosecution in the phone-hacking trial has entered the final stages of its case against Rebekah Brooks and six co-defendants, who deny all the charges against them.

On trial are seven people associated with the now defunct News of the World newspaper. Here is a summary of the defendants, the charges they face and the main evidence so far.