The World Federation of Advertisers has unveiled the headline speakers for the 2013 Global Marketer Conference, which will be held in Brussels to coincide with the organisation's 60th anniversary. The March 6 event will bring together the world's top marketers to discuss common challenges to building global brands.

To mark the opening of its Shoreditch office, The Drum has announced the appointment of former New Media Age journalist Jessica Davies, as senior reporter. Working from this base in the heart of the UK technology sector, Davies will report on how digital is transforming the marketing scene.

It used to be an article of faith that a print subscription would give you access to a publication's online offerings. That assumption is being tested by one magazine's decision to "unbundle" its digital privileges.

The Daily, News Corp.'s attempt to create a newspaper for the iPad era, is shutting down after less than two years. The media giant, which also owns this Web site, said it will "cease standalone publication" of the app on Dec. 15. It says that "technology and other assets from The Daily, including some staff, will be folded into" News Corp.'s New York Post tabloid. The app/newspaper has approximately 120 employees.

The iPad edition will be available for free from Monday-Friday but the Saturday edition and the Sunday Mirror will only be available in print at the weekends. The Daily Record is also pursuing the same strategy and it launching its own free iPad app today. A seven-day edition will be available for international readers at a cost of GBP4.99 a month. The Mirror's strategy is a departure from the rest of Fleet Street, including its tabloid rivals The Sun and Daily Star.

More and more sites are getting blacklisted by Russia's new hitlist of digital child porn and other supposedly law-breaking content. But, despite some recent examples, search engines are not supposed to be amongst the list. Russia's Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications has issued a "clarification" to say Web search, image search, news search, video search and other content cached by search engines like Google, Yandex and Bing should not be included in the recently-launched Zapret web blacklist.

The father of a child accused of illegally downloading music in Finland has paid a EUR300 (GBP243; $390) fine to a Finnish anti-piracy group. He had refused to pay the original settlement of EUR600 and sign a non-disclosure agreement. A police warrant was then issued to confiscate the laptop of the girl, who was aged nine at the time. The anti-piracy group said it was acting "within the boundaries of Finnish legislation". The girl had searched blocked torrent site The Pirate Bay for an album by Finnish popstar Chisu.

The 25 original classical tunes were recorded with the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra and some are already available on some Nokia Lumia models. Nokia said they decided to hire the orchestra after a study revealed that classical music ringtones were the second most popular. The pieces were composed by the mobile phone giant's in-house 'sound designers' before being recorded with the 55 members of the orchestra.

British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin will not face any action after he tweeted the address of a gay couple who won a landmark court verdict against a B&B owner. Griffin urged his followers on Twitter to stage a demonstration after a court ruled that Christian Berkshire B&B owner Susanne Wilkinson had discriminated against Michael Black and John Morgan by turning them away. Cambridgeshire police launched an investigation into Griffin's actions, but the case was dropped this week.

The changes recommended by Lord Justice Leveson to the special treatment journalists are given under data protection laws have provoked the strongest concerns from David Cameron and Nick Clegg that journalism could be damaged. The provisions, in particular those that would place new restrictions on the media's wide-ranging exemptions in gathering personal confidential data under the 1998 Data Protection Act, led the prime minister to say he was "instinctively concerned".