In an extraordinary year for news, New Zealanders have turned to sources they trust

The latest readership figures from Nielsen show nearly two million people access New Zealand Herald print and digital journalism each week.

Overall print-digital readership is at a record level, and newspaper readership is at its highest level in almost a decade.

Numbers choosing to read the daily Herald newspaper has increased by 26-thousand in the past 12 months to 585-thousand - the highest since 2011.

More than one million Kiwis now read the Herald newspapers across the week.