The annual gathering of journalism educators was held this week at a school that’s just closed its journalism programme. It’s not the only one and the number of journalism trainees is slumping too. Is that just because the news business itself is shrinking or does journalism as a career have a PR problem too?

There are around three billion phones in the world that can shoot and send video. HashtagOurStories is a network of citizen journalists to capture stories most media miss with their phones.

Heart-breaking news and suppression frustration; tough times for training journalists; Yusuf Omar: mobiles get stories the media miss.

Mediawatch Midweek is our weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Jeremy chats to Karyn about apologies, graphic journalism, and a new New Zealand website for public interest documentaries.

An MP and a senior public servant have been accused of bullying staff this week, and an inquiry into bullying at Parliament is under way too. All that made heaps of headlines this past week and kept reporters and political commentators busy, but where does the public interest lie?

New Zealand’s biggest-ever inquiry into our mental health system says it’s broken and action is urgent. Many in the media pointed out that’s what previous inquiries have said too so we shouldn’t expect much meaningful change now. Is that realistic reporting or damaging defeatism?

Women's football doesn't often make much of a mark in our sports news but the unprecedented achievements of the Young Ferns and a sexist joke from a bloke in Paris did this past week. The minister of sport also bluntly challenged our sports reporters to up their game too. Fair call?

Bullying in the bulletins; is mental health media coverage helping?; Upping the game on women's sports.

Mediawatch Midweek is our weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Colin chats to Karyn about new multimedia projects from the latest public media funding boost; ads intruding in podcasts; where Paul Henry has been hiding and how one jerk's twerk joke soured a soccer ceremony with sexism.

What happens if a local council has a debate on democracy itself and nobody reports it? No, it's not a Philosophy 101 conundrum - it's what happened earlier this year when Hutt City Council reviewed the way councillors and community boards were elected. Mediawatch's Jeremy Rose on the decline and fall of local body reporting.