Local World chief executive David Montgomery has outlined his vision for a newspaper group where journalists oversee a 20-fold increase in content. He said that the conventional idea of the sub-editor does not feature in his vision and that editors will become "pretty redundant" as the job of journalists is to "manage content and lots of content that comes from the community itself".

Google, Facebook and Twitter's decision to establish their European bases in Dublin has opened the internet giants up to EU defamation and privacy laws like never before, a libel lawyer has warned. The world's biggest search engine and the social networks' presence in Ireland will also enable lawyers to sue the companies on behalf of clients abused by anonymous bloggers and tweeters according to Paul Tweed, the Belfast-based libel expert.

The search giant said one police force asked it to remove 14 websites from search results that criticised it and claimed "individuals were involved in obscuring crimes". In a separate incident, Google said it also refused to take down a YouTube video that alleged racism by another force. Google has declined a request by the Daily Telegraph for further details about the police authorities involved.

Spain's influential El Pas newspaper has withdrawn what it says was a false photo of Hugo Chvez that it published in its online and print editions on Thursday. The grainy photo that El Pas originally splashed on its front page, billed as a global exclusive, portrayed the head of a man lying down with a breathing tube in his mouth. The Venezuelan president has cancer and has been undergoing medical treatment in Cuba, where he had surgery in December. He has not been seen publicly for six weeks.

In a leaked internal memo, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton says that what the network calls "commerce journalism" - posts filled with affiliate links - will become a major focus for the company in 2013. According to Denton, this business is expected to produce 10% of revenues this year, just part of the 40% revenue growth the network is projecting.

Although advertisers continue to spend the most on TV ads, spend on the internet and cinema advertising grew at rapid rates, well ahead of the 3.3% rise in global ad spend overall during the same period of time. Cinema advertising saw a resurgence in Asia-Pacific where third-quarter regional ad spending increased 54.7%. On the other hand, Latin America (-5.5%) and Europe (-4.5%) posted year-on-year declines in cinema ad spend.

The Times, Sunday Times and Sun newspapers have signed a three-year-deal with the Premier League to broadcast "near live" clips of live football matches to mobile devices. Starting in August 2013, the deal means NI titles can show up to eight 30-second clips of key moments during live matches via mobile devices (except for games played on Saturday at 3 pm). Clips of up to 60-seconds from each game will also be available for a week after matchday via the websites.

Facebook has admitted that there is almost nothing it can do to stop young users setting up profiles, with academic research suggesting that more than a third of UK 9-12 year olds now have their own page on the social network. The world's biggest social network, with more than 1 billion registered global users, has a rule that under-13s are not allowed to have profiles and also has strict rules for policing explicit content and preventing bullying and grooming.

Every national website audited by ABC was up year on year in December apart from the redesigned Metro, which saw traffic drop 37%. Metro unveiled ambitious plans to go 'mobile first' in November with new apps for Android and the Kindle Fire, alongside a realaunched website using 'responsive design' technology tailored to different devices. Mail Online was once again the best performing title in terms of daily browsers, up 45.5% year on year to 7,038,933, though it was down 0.9% on November's figures.

CEOs have been advised to use Twitter as a useful tool for building trust between their company and the people they wish to reach. Cited by holmesreport.com, a study from PR firm Weber Shandwick recently found that only 2% of the top 50 CEOs in Fortune Magazine's Global 500 rankings had an active Twitter account. Despite the platform witnessing a rapid increase in account holders over the last two years, this was down from 8% in 2010.