Former Herald writer John Armstrong yesterday received the insignia of an officer of the NZ Order of Merit for his services to journalism.

COMMENT: It's hard to have faith in your audience when it shows an increasing appetite to be entertained to the point of brain death.

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.

After 152 years, the Herald is moving out of the Queen St valley where it and Auckland began.

The Herald's 152 years in one Auckland CBD block may have set a record in a city where businesses rise and fall and shift premises relentlessly.

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.

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."

Detectives sought the banking, telephone and travel records of author and journalist Nicky Hager without any search order or other legal power.

BBC journalist Sarah Teale was filming a report in the street about the harassment of women - then she became a victim herself.

"John became so busy that I found it hard to get hold of him in the end. I hope I am able to return phone calls better than John did."

They flee because they fear, indeed they know, that they will not survive in the environment they are in, writes Maria Hayward. They just want to be able to be safe.

Cameron Slater has been found in contempt of court in seven instances and reminded there are responsibilities which come with being a journalist.

The Herald's investigative editor, Jared Savage, won the prestigious Hegarty Scholarship at the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association (Panpa) awards in Sydney last night.

The layoffs come after Michael Bloomberg's return about a year ago following three terms as New York mayor.

A new teaser trailer has been released for The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, showing the new host settling in on set.