1Ten days into the football World Cup, the All Whites are at level-pegging with the defending world champions from Italy. Are the foreign football journalists who wrote them off now eating their words? Keywords: Graham Taylor; The Guardian; The Times; Gabriele Marcotti; Mark Chapman; BBC; Roy Meredith; Kevin Day;

2Mediawatch looks at the pursuit of an under-fire MP who wasn't sorry enough for the media's liking. Keywords: Chris Carter; TVNZ; Simon Dallow; One News; Guyon Espiner; 3 News; Hilary Barry; Close Up; Mark Sainsbury; Campbell Live; Tony Reid; John Campbell; RadioLive; New Zealand Herald; Dominion Post; Lockwood Smith;

3So-called 'citizen journalism', where the public play a role in the process of collecting, reporting, analysing and disseminating the news, has been a buzz phrase in media circles for a while. In New Zealand, up until now, it has been more of an interesting idea than a reality, so the Stuff website's decision to scan 16,922 pages of documents relating to MPs' expenses and invite its readers to search through them for potential scandals is a potentially significant development in this country. Keywords: stuff.co.nz; The Guardian; Bob Ainsworth; Michael Ancram; Gerry Brownlee;

4Freeview and the digital switchover. Keywords: 50 year anniversary of television in New Zealand; TVNZ; Prime TV; Sky TV; Football World Cup; Wimbledon; Maori TV; Brent Impey; Mediaworks; John Key; Freeview; Sam Irvine; C4; TVNZ 7;

5This week, Radio New Zealand presented Sean Plunket made headlines again when it was announced that he would be quitting in early September. That followed the earlier revelation that he would be writing a column each month for Metro magazine from now on, having earlier taken legal action against Radio New Zealand when the broadcaster would not let him write a column about politics for the Auckland-based monthly while he was still presenting their flagship news show. The Employment Court decided in Radio New Zealand's favour, and media outlets jumped the gun in announcing his decision to quit. Keywords: Herald on Sunday; Morning Report; Sean Plunket; Dominion Post; Radio New Zealand; Dennis Welsh; Nine to Noon;