For five years our news media kept the story of kidnapped nurse Louisa Akavi under wraps and this week they won praise for putting her safety ahead of a scoop. But the last time this happened, the media’s ethics didn’t quite come out so squeaky clean in the wash-up.

TVNZ made a bold move screening a contemporary local drama each weeknight this past week - but it was a foreign fantasy on pay TV that grabbed the media's attention. And turns out New Zealanders have a stake in the much-hyped Game of Thrones series too.

TVNZ made a bold move screening a contemporary local drama each weeknight this past week - but it was a foreign fantasy on pay TV that grabbed the media's attention. And turns out New Zealanders have a stake in the much-hyped Game of Thrones series too.

Sitting on a sensational story for safety's sake; accounting for carbon in the age of climate change; in thrall to Thrones.

Sitting on a sensational story for safety's sake; accounting for carbon in the age of climate change; in thrall to Thrones.

TVNZ made a bold move screening a contemporary local drama each weeknight this past week. But it was a foreign fantasy on pay that TV grabbed the media’s attention - and it turns out New Zealanders have a stake in the much-hyped Game of Thrones too.

After Christchurch, governments around the world are gearing up against the ‘weaponisation’ of the internet by terrorists and extremists. The grim content they create also forces news media to make tough calls. Professor Roxane Cohen Silver has studied the effects of extreme images - and what the media need to know about that.

Over the past four years, a small  team of local journalists at multimedia outlet Vice has published New Zealand and Pacific stories watched and read around the world over the past four years. A new lid-lifting look at billionaires’ bunkers beneath our soil is set to go viral too. So why has the plug just been pulled on Vice’s local journalism?

Over the past four years, a small  team of local journalists at multimedia outlet Vice has published New Zealand and Pacific stories watched and read around the world over the past four years. A new lid-lifting look at billionaires’ bunkers beneath our soil is set to go viral too. So why has the plug just been pulled on Vice’s local journalism?

After Christchurch, governments around the world are gearing up against the ‘weaponisation’ of the internet by terrorists and extremists. The grim content they create also forces news media to make tough calls. Professor Roxane Cohen Silver has studied the effects of extreme images - and what the media need to know about that.