Shooting the messenger hunting for the MP gone MIA; the Herald's big push to 'break the silence' surrounding suicide; an unconventional account from a convention

Mediawatch looks back on a century and a half of investigative journalism with veteran journalists Jim Tucker and Rebecca Macfie and James Hollings the editor of the soon to be released A Moral Truth: 150 years of investigative journalism in New Zealand.

Heard the one about the Aussie comedian, the Tongan teenager and the New Zealand TV channel?  No-one’s laughing now after Maori TV's top brass stepped in to dump a controversial comedy after one episode.

The feats of Kiwi sportswomen around the world recently have been hard to spot in sports sections bulging with blokes. Mediawatch asks two front-rank female sports journalists: is that down to bias in the media, or what people actually want? And why are the media getting behind women’s sport across the ditch more than they seem to be here?

Controversial comedy sparks clash of cultures; putting women's sport in the frame.

Viewers were startled when Sky Sports slipped in an ad after the haka in the All Blacks-Lions test last weekend. It’s not the first time broadcasters have cashed in, but what does the outcry reveal about what people expect from broadcasters these days?

There’s been heaps of coverage of Team New Zealand’s triumph in Bermuda lately, but lots of it came courtesy of the organisers, the teams and their sponsors. RNZ’s man at the Cup tells Mediawatch it calls into question the future of real news coverage from big sports events.

A sports special: Hawking the haka sparks ad indignation; Americas Cup coverage calls news media's role into question.

Established news media and the parliamentary press gallery were scooped by a recent online start-up on the biggest political scandal of election year so far.

The Conversation is an international effort to bring academics and their expertise to an audience beyond the ivory tower. Mediawatch asks its newly appointed New Zealand editor Veronika Meduna what it will bring to our media landscape.