Acclaimed businessman Ian Taylor has given more details on why he resigned over the botched Maori TV chief executive appointment.

The chairwoman of Maori Television says there will be no further resignations from its board despite its failure to reach a unanimous decision to appoint a new chief executive.

The board of Maori Television should win an award for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, writes John Drinnan.

Maori Television says it will not appoint a new chief executive after its board was unable to reach a unanimous decision.

Mediaworks and TV3 are starting to sound like the Jones channel in covering the Labour leadership campaign.

Labour MP Claire Curran claims the Maori Television chairwoman Georgina te Heuheu favoured a friend of hers in getting him shortlisted for the job of chief executive.

David Frost, who died on Sunday aged 74, sat down with many big names over half a century.

Kiwi journalist Wayne Hay has been celebrating his release from detention in Egypt with a cold beer.

Broadcaster David Frost, best known for his interview with ex-US President Richard Nixon, died of a heart attack aboard the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship.

The TVNZ America's Cup coverage - which has been described as 'choppy' - needs to get some wind in its sails to ensure this is a huge event, writes John Drinnan.

Gerry Brownlee has questioned why political reporters' phone, email and swipe card records should be protected when they publish the private records of others.

Sky Network Television has delivered another solid profit in its financial results for the year to June 30, but there are warnings that the golden weather may not last.

Hollywood heart-throb Michael Fassbender (Prometheus, X Men: First Class) is tipped to play the lead role in Slow West

"In terms of the politics of the interview, the Prime Minister was absolutely brilliant," says John Campbell after their fiery interview.

The sale of media company MediaWorks has been confirmed this morning by its receivers KordaMentha.

Slow progress in completing an inquiry is fuelling concern that the Commerce Commission is backing away from challenging Sky TV's hold on video content.

Being thin and carrying a low proportion of body fat are two different things, writes Steve Stannard. What is too skinny?

One of the top journalists working in global hotspots says she faces a constant battle to avoid surveillance in war zones.

When the Washington Post's entire staff was summoned by chief executive Donald Graham to a meeting at 4.30pm on Monday, many assumed he was announcing the sale of the newspaper's downtown office, its prize asset.

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

Violence is the new "sexy" for teenage girls, according to one expert who advises parents and teachers on how to stamp out the increasingly aggressive behaviour.

The beast is back. Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-born naturalised American media billionaire, is out to get Labor with a sledgehammer.