Many pundits were in no doubt about the outcome of the UK's general election. A hostile press and pundits predicted Labour would be buried by a landslide - and they said so with such certainty they ended up looking foolish.

A tale of two cites' terrorism; reporting terrorism linked to further attacks; the Sundance Festival of journalism; Corbyn's Labour confounds critics and perplexes pundits.

Mediawatch looks at two cases of local papers taking a very different approach to controversial stories that weren't backed up by facts.

The world's media are slowly getting past the stereotypes of poverty, disease and corruption that have characterised coverage of Africa in the past but there's still a way to go, says a media scholar.

We know about driverless cars, but are reporterless stories and podcasts just around the corner too? And what does a "true-blue Aussie" robot reading the news sound like? (Spoiler: not good)

A couple of cases of the facts getting in the way of good story; moving past 'Afro-pessimism'; a robotic reporting re-boot?

Mixed messages and extreme responses to Manchester's atrocity; an award-winning editor on newspapers' prospects and fake news fears; Donald trumps trade issues for English abroad.

The media struggled with the contrasting moods of horror, anger and sorrow in the wake of this week's suicide attack in Manchester. Some commentators aired extreme views at a time when calm was being called for - even here.

No editor had a better night at last weekend’s Canon Media Awards than Miriyana Alexander. Her Weekend Herald won ‘Newspaper of the Year’ and she won a fellowship in the UK to study so-called ‘fake news’. Mediawatch asked her if that’s really a problem the media here need to worry about.

A big media contingent followed Bill English on his trip to Tokyo where kickstarting a US-free TPP was the top priority. But some political reporters pressed him for opinions on what was going on in Washington.