Facebook is launching its own journalism project, continuing its efforts to change the way media organizations work with the social network.

Its first annual loss in four years came as it wrote off than $100 million from the value of its mastheads and buildings.

With these little tweaks and third party software, you can personalise your Netflix binge-watching experience like never before.

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

SKY TV has cut its 2017 earnings guidance citing rising content costs and falling revenue and subscribers.

Redundancies are an economic reality facing both businesses, the companies told the Commerce Commission.

Michael Moran has held the position in the interim since June.

President-elect Donald Trump said he won't spend any time working on the new version of the TV reality show he starred in.

COMMENT: TVNZ has defended its live broadcast cross to Joseph Parker - including plugs for his fast food supporters, John Drinnan writes.

The possibility that a future owner of a proposed merged media entity would seek to influence what is published has been raised by the Commerce Commission.

If a merger of the country's two largest newspaper and online news publishers is blocked it will be the regions that suffer, the Commerce Commission has been told.

Whether Facebook's sucking up of advertising revenue will lead to more cat videos on news websites has been a talking point at a hearing into a proposed media merger.

New Zealand's media landscape is "massively changing", the Commerce Commission's public conference into the proposed merger of NZME and Fairfax has heard.

COMMENT: New Zealand's funding body must spread its money further, John Drinnan writes.

News Corp Australia has taken control of Australian News Channel, the operator of the Sky News pay TV channels.

The country's two largest news publishers blindsided a start-up competitor involving two of the country's most experienced journalists yesterday.

The Commerce Commission has received a raft of new submissions on its preliminary decision to reject the merger between NZME and Fairfax.

Media plurality would suffer if the status quo were to remain, NZME and Fairfax said in a submission to the Commerce Commission.

The Business Herald's Grant Bradley has won the Australasian Aviation Press Club aviation journalist of the year.

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.

In its long history, Vice Media has treasured a reputation for operating at the edge, embracing the digital shift and paying little heed to tradition.

COMMENT: Momentous times for media, including Facebook - even if it refuses to accept that it is a media company.

They're the "young and energetic" movement who helped propel Donald Trump to the White House. But the "alt-right" may already by dying.

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is negotiating with an Australian company for a contract to redesign its website, the Herald understands.

COMMENT: "John Key was kidnapped in Peru by drug lords." If you saw that message on social media, you might just think it's true, writes Juha Saarinen.

COMMENT: People no longer agree on what high-quality news is, writes Gregory Ferenstein.

Canterbury Television is waving goodbye to TV.

A man who made a living off viral news hoaxes says he hates Trump, but could be the reason he's now in the White House.

COMMENT: The $500,000 proposal to change Auckland's slogan received predictable criticism, writes John Drinnan.

COMMENT: Accurate, substantive news is on the brink of extinction, and it's not all the social networks' fault.