For the purposes of this list the Press Gazette have defined Facebook popularity according to the number of 'likes' on a publication's own Facebook page. They have only included print titles which are based primarily in the UK, founded here or have separate UK Facebook accounts. See how the top three, The Economist, The Sun and FHM, developed their Facebook pages.

The new social channel, which aims to become a direct rival to Twitter, takes inspiration from the micro-blogging site - but has added features such as voice notes, audio clips and live-broadcasting in a bid to expand the offering. A user posting regular blogs can apply a monthly subscription fee for users to pay in order to access the material. Elsewhere this can be used in the case of a broadcasting event, with hosts setting it up on a pay-per-view basis.

CNN has launched a news discovery dashboard, with the support of Lexus, which will enable users to track and explore the web's most buzzed about stories. Fueled by Zite technology, CNN Trends will identify the most conversation-provoking news topics to pair with a CNN story and content from ten additional sources. CNN Trends will utilise technology from Zite, monitoring conversations through the social web and surface the topics of greatest relevancy.

The app most recently launched for iPhone. A UK edition of Niiiws was launched for iPad in June and followed Portuguese and Spanish versions of the app. Editions are now available for seven countries: France, Brazil, US, Ireland, plus Portugal, Spain and the UK. The app, which displays articles creating most buzz on social networks, organises content by traditional newspaper sections, such as 'world', 'politics' and 'sport'.

The offensive messages are circulating labelled with the #unbonjuif (#agoodjew) hashtag. The tweets are being removed following the threat of legal action by a Jewish student group. The Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) was planning to get a court injunction to make Twitter remove the offensive tweets.

Joanna Shields, one of Facebook's most senior executives, is to quit the social media giant and join David Cameron's project to create a competitor to California's Silicon Valley in East London. In a significant coup for Downing Street, Shields will spearhead a push to bring greater foreign direct investment into the area around Shoreditch which has seen investments from Google, Intel and Cisco.

The company, which makes money from BBC programmes by selling the rights to other broadcasters overseas, has grown into one of britain's biggest media businesses under his leadership, delivering GBP155m of profits on GBP1.1bn of revenues last year. John Smith is understood to have wanted Worldwide to be privatised so that he could run it in a shamelessly commercial manner. Tim Davie, who cut his teeth at PepsiCo before joining the BBC in 2005, had been widely tipped to succeed Smith.

A poll by YouGov which studies the reading habits of business leaders found that The Telegraph was the most popular news source, with some 32% having read the paper edition within the last week. The closest competitors were The Times, read by 26%, and The Guardian, favoured by 21%. The results could impact the way business websites deliver their content marketing approach. Using The Telegraph as a guide should, in theory, endear their content to a business audience successfully.

Wall Street Journal has launched a local language edition in Korea as part of the latest development in its 'WSJ Everywhere' strategy, which drives the franchise's development across new geographies, platforms and devices. Through this strategy the site has launched 11 sites in eight languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and German.

The media baron has apologised to Hugh Grant after he suggested on Twitter that the actor had abandoned his "love child's". The News Corporation boss made his second Twitter climbdown in less than 24 hours on Thursday, as he expressed regret for earlier comments about Grant's personal life. Murdoch said on Twitter: "Hugh Grant states that he is deeply involved in his daughter's life - I accept that,regret tweet on the matter. Apologies to both parents."