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Director general Mark Thompson has questioned whether the BBC's news website needs to be so extensive

BBC admits plan to scale back website

Corporation likely to rein in operations across TV, radio and internet

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Johnston Press to charge for local papers online

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Johnston Press, the regional newspaper group, is to begin charging for the online content of some of its local titles, in the latest sign that the industry has shifted heavily in favour of making the internet pay.

BBC Trust dampens Worldwide's plans for global domination

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Corporation reins in its commercial division

Google says sorry for offensive Michelle Obama image

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Google is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the First Lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, left, has agreed to a payments system if Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation takes steps to remove all its content from Google

Murdoch turns to Gates for website help

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Microsoft and News Corp joins forces in bid to make internet news pay

Murdoch courts trouble if he blocks Google on news

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Rupert Murdoch has spent months complaining that Google is ruining the newspaper business, and now he wants to do something about it.

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YouTube helps media find citizen journalists

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

YouTube is trying to help shrinking newsrooms expand their video coverage without increasing their payrolls.

On 17 October 2007, a man admitted hacking his wife to death with a meat cleaver, after she changed her Facebook status to 'single'. The couple had split four days before the attack, but Wayne Forrester, 34, became enraged when his former partner, Emma, announced their separation online. The HGV driver travelled 15 miles to where Emma was staying at her sister's house, armed with the cleaver. He said: 'She posted messages on the internet website telling everybody she had left me.'

Goodbye Vietnam - Facebook faces blackout

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Vietnam's growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country's communist government might be blocking the popular social networking website, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks.

Ian Burrell: PCC to regulate UK bloggers?

Monday, 16 November 2009

Baroness Buscombe, the new chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, has ambitions for her organisation that go beyond the traditional newspaper companies.

Sky provokes backlash after iPhone viewing offer

Thursday, 12 November 2009

BSkyB said last night it was not worried that its new Sky Mobile TV service for iPhones, where all Sky's sport content is now available for an all-time low price of £6 per month, will cannabilise sales of its core product – pay-TV sport – and damage its business model.

James Hong: 'Whether it was viral or word of mouth, it was always based on the content'

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

An interview with James Hong, co-founder of 'HotOrNot'

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