Facebook has struggled for months over whether it should crack down on false stories and hoaxes being spread on its site.

The New Zealand Herald's readership - in print and online - continues to rise, with readership growing for the 4th consecutive survey period.

Kiwi chef Al Brown remembers his good friend AA Gill as one "out of the box".

COMMENT: Blame internet giants for allowing fake news to spread globally.

Veteran newsman Gordon 'Flash' McBride has died after a battle with cancer.

COMMENT: We urgently need to educate our society about media literacy and critical thinking.

We, a group of more than 30 editors, are writing to say, with respect, you are wrong. We believe that you have misinterpreted the state of NZ journalism.

There are people who truly believe journalism is a dark art practised by latter-day witches who seek only to deceive readers by telling

COMMENT: Every reader and viewer saw headlines like 'mathematical impossibility' that Trump could win enough electoral votes.

The extent of the collusion between the BBC and the police to arrange for a raid on Sir Cliff Richard's home to be shown live on television has been revealed.

Go ahead and sue: New York Times responds to Trump threats over "inappropriate touching" reports from women.

COMMENT: Facebook's decision to block a Norwegian user's post containing the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of children was met by a cry of outrage.

DJ Cameron was rarely rattled by anyone. Not a riled-up cricket hero fuming over a story the candid Herald sportswriter had written, nor a thirsty, world-conquering mountaineer.

COMMENT: I hope everyone in the media space follows NPR's lead as it would help make online conversation great again.

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.

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 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.