If reader comments aren't one of the worst things on the internet, they are probably pretty close, which is why many mainstream media outlets seem to have given up on trying to save them - or have turned them over to Facebook, which amounts to the same thing. Gawker Media founder Nick Denton, however, continues to see them as having a lot more value than most publishers are willing to admit, and is rolling out new comment-filtering features that he says will take the collaborative aspects of Gawker's Kinja platform to a new level.

Bonnier Publications magazine Olivia, a Finnish title, went one step further in 2010 when it built a platform which would enable its readership to effectively build an edition of the magazine. Speaking at magazine conference FIPP Congress in Rome today, Marjaana Toiminen, chief executive of Bonnier Publications, shared the team's experience in working with readers to create an edition of Olivia, which it has continued to do on an annual basis, with the fourth edition currently in production.

Rupert Murdoch's media empire has spent $382m (GBP238m) over the past two years on legal fees dealing with the aftermath of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. In its annual report, released over the weekend, News Corp revealed that its total cost of legal and other professional fees relating to civil and criminal proceedings concerning its UK newspaper arm in the year to June 2013 had been $183m. This is in addition to the approximately $199m it spent in the year to June 2012.

The online project, described by one insider as "BuzzFeed for adults", was pitched to the Trinity Mirror board last week and is understood to be taking priority over plans to redesign the Sunday newspaper. An overhaul of the Sunday People has been in the works since June, when Trinity Mirror appointed the former Sunday Express editor Sue Douglas to lead a revamp under the editor James Scott.

As the traditional media industry has struggled with the ongoing decline of its traditional business and the emergence of new competitors like The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed, a number of different business models have taken shape, from paywalls or metered subscriptions to native advertising. But it is becoming increasingly clear that journalism - which in a sense has always been a subset of media - will never be able to survive without assistance from some other entity, whether it's a rich benefactor or a non-media business.

The Daily Telegraph is understood to have earned about GBP400,000 for Monday's cover wrap for a Lloyds Bank rebranding ad, with the overall deal including sponsorship of the paper's comment pages said to be worth seven figures. Telegraph Media Group's deal with Lloyds usually includes sponsorship of a Fraser Nelson comment section on page 20 of Monday's paper.

The Daily Mirror is seeking to position itself as a 'smarter' alternative to The Sun with the launch of a poster campaign spoofing the topless page 3 models for which the rival red top has become famous. Supplanting its typical page 3 layout for a full page ad publisher Trinity Mirror has reproduced a shot of a naked model reclining in a bath with two strategically placed elbows.

In our diary article "Museum finally signs its deal to be fine and dandy" (August 7, 2013) we referred to the exhibition of the late Sebastian Horsley's suits at the Museum of London and the Whoresley show, an exhibition of his pictures at the Outsiders Gallery. By unfortunate error we referred to Rachel Garley, the late Sebastian Horsley's girlfriend, who arranged the exhibitions, as a prostitute. We accept that Ms Garley is not and has never been a prostitute. We offer our sincere apologies to Ms Garley for the damage to her reputation and the distress and embarrassment she has …

About 200 million fewer female internet users when compared male users, and the gap could grow to 350 million by 2016, if no action is taken, according to a new report from the United Nation Commission's Broadband Commission Working Group on Broadband and Gender. The latest study, 'Doubling Digital Opportunities: Enhancing the Inclusion of Women & Girls in the Information Society,' revealed that globally, women are going online later and more slowly compared to men, leading to a 'significant and pervasive' 'tech gap' in accessing information and communication technologies.

Readers will be surprised to find that pages two and three of the paper are left almost entirely blank, with the former containing little more than the crossword and weather forecast and page three simply bearing the hashtag #Madeuthink. The abundance of white space is explained on page 6 when the paper asks, "Did you notice the blank pages?" before stating: "Something that isn't there can be as thought provoking as something that is."