The French town of Bayeux is better known for its tapestry, but Paul Mulrooney finds another reason to visit.

COMMENT: The media, which did such a good job in bringing an important story to public attention, cannot duck out now.

Reporter Rebecca Wright has revealed her most embarrassing moment, saying she froze during a live Anzac Day cross and didn't want to go back to work.

A Kiwi living in Istanbul says despite the roar of military jets, she is not afraid of the attempted coup in Turkey.

Many on social media today ignored requests by French authorities to not spread rumours and stick to official accounts for their news on the Nice attack.

COMMENT: According to the show business adage, you should always leave them wanting more. Today I bow out after 12 years as a Herald columnist.

COMMENT: It takes courage to stand up and defend something in the face of criticism. But without courage we are on a slippery slope to a media blackout.

COMMENT: When the all-but-inevitable merger of media companies NZME and Fairfax was announced, journalistic reaction fell into two camps.

COMMENT: Too many experts aren't confident talking to the media and feel that stepping into the public arena on controversial issues is a losing game, writes Peter Griffin.

Former head of TVNZ's Maori and Pacific programming, Whai Ngata, has died.

A digital newspaper that is connected to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has published an article detailing the US presidential election.

Paris, like any big city, really only gets meaning when you have French friends to explain the experience, writes Alan Duff.

As far as scoops go, Sean Penn's interview with the fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was sensational.

For over two hundred years in the West, it has often been journalists who have the front line on these issues, digging where others are either ignorant or afraid, writes Alexander Gillespie.

The self-plagiarist tries to take undeserved credit for the work as new and original when they know the material was derived from a previous source, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

As observers of the human condition, cartoonists are duty-bound to create and stimulate debate, while underlining the follies of our leaders, writes Rod Emerson. The risk it carries is worth the effort.

The law is clear. When it comes to search warrants, there is a line which protects all in society, and in some cases particularly the press.

In the past, a politician saying something factually inaccurate was cause for humiliation. Now there appears to be few consequences, if any, writes Stephen Harrington.

Something happened this week that gave me a lot to ponder. I've been ruminating on it for days.

Friends and colleagues of long-time Herald political journalist John Armstrong gathered to celebrate his career yesterday as he bowed out of journalism.

Mediaworks staff are being asked to boycott their chief executive's wine business because Mark Weldon "doesn't support journalism", a leaked email says.

John Roughan has been forced to release recordings of his conversations with PM John Key as part of a court case relating to the "teapot tapes".

For a year now I have been fending off lawyers who want notes, recordings or transcripts of interviews I did with John Key for my book on him.

This will likely be the article no one will want to read, writes Johann Go. It is going to be the viewpoint that challenges the media and public orthodoxy surrounding the Paris attacks. This article challenges the current state of our world.

Rachel Smalley, recovering in Beirut from her first marathon, hot-footed it to a bomb site where at least 43 people were killed in a shopping street.

Cause or coincidence? TV3's story barely establishes coincidence. It certainly doesn't show correlation. The idea of cause is laughable, writes Adam Smith.

Broadcast journalist Paul Hobbs hasn't let his Type 1 Diabetes stop him covering stories around the world, including in war zones and at the Olympics.

Both claim to be journalists, Cameron Slater and Nicky Hage have found their work subject to the scrutiny of the High Court.

"We didn't order a firearm for a bit of a laugh...We had to investigate it, and if it was as bad as we'd heard it was, make sure the flaw was shut down."