The government is being criticised for keeping the future of public broadcasting a mystery.

Cabinet is forging ahead with the plan to create a new, super-sized public broadcaster, but ministers have taken some convincing.

Mediawatch: It was no surprise that Harry and Meghan’s decision to retreat from royalty fired up the hyperactive British media. But half a world away, ours were strangely in a frenzy over it too. ​

A specially adapted helicopter is completing the third part of an aerial survey over Queenstown this month.

MediaWorks has reached an agreement to sell its Auckland property, housing its head office and television studios.

The Otago Daily Times cartoon joking about the Samoa measles epidemic was “gratuitously hurtful” and had a “racist quality”, the Media Council has found.

YouTube has premiered a Robert Downey Jr-fronted series, with the first episode focusing on a University of Auckland lab’s research project.

Mediawatch – Dan Eaton wrote No White Lies – a thriller involving a kidnapping, spies and dodgy journalism. He’s also a former editor and the national security policy director at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Mediawatch – To pump up interest in its transport policy, the National Party spoon-fed the media part of it: police fining cyclists who spurn cycleways. But the prospect of Bike Force Raptor backfired.

The National Party is slating the delay of a final Cabinet decision on public broadcasting as the latest broken promise in the government’s so-called “year of delivery”.