Media Studies: Police say there are 3,870 names in Muclaire's records and only a small fraction have so far been informed

Media Studies: The decline of newspaper sales are much more grievous than most politicians and critics of the press appear to realise

Media Studies: It would have been far preferable for almost everyone, excepting the Murdochs, if the News of the World had been decontaminated and cleaned up

This month in San Francisco, Mark Zuckerberg will address for the fifth year his annual F8 conference on the future direction of his gift to the world: Facebook.

Media Studies: If newspapers were prevented from publishing information given to them by police sources, there would be an awful lot of blank spaces to fill

The circulations of many women’s magazines are falling off a cliff. It’s partly down to the recession. When supermarket aisles are less crowded there are fewer people to make impulse purchases at their news-stands. And celebrity titles seem less attractive when the sumptuous lifestyles of the featured stars seem so far out of reach.

There was a time when I looked forward to BBC2's Newsnight. I felt sparks might fly, particularly if Jeremy Paxman were in charge. Along with Radio Four's Today programme, it provided by far the most informative political forum in broadcasting, though in the heyday of New Labour's virtual one-party state it was a bit too much part of the project for my tastes.

Media Studies: It seems that the more upmarket BBC4, which is the Corporation's sole remaining enclave of Reithian values on television, will be the greater loser

Media Studies: Cost-cutting and imitation will only get him so far – but that could be quite a long way

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Robert Peston, the BBC's business editor, is a member of the board of the Media Standards Trust, an organisation committed to "quality, transparency and accountability in news". I wonder what it has to say about Mr Peston's apparent reliance on a close friend for a series of scoops that may serve the best interests of that friend – Will Lewis, group general manager at Rupert Murdoch's News International, and a former editor of The Daily Telegraph.

Media Studies: Both Cameron and Osborne have bent the knee to the Murdoch Empire

Media Studies: The Times is still a fine paper, and honest enough to write fearlessly about the Murdoch empire over the past week

The Times might struggle to attract a new buyer willing to cover its annual losses of £50m