The nation's first youth police crime commissioner, Paris Brown, has stepped down from her post, sparking a new debate about the privacy rights of those posting social media content. The 17 year-old from Sheerness in Kent was appointed last week in a high profile attempt to bridge the gap between the police force and young people. However, dailymail.co.uk reported that the teenager had boasted about drug-taking and made violent, racist and homophobic comments on her Twitter feed.

Spending on mobile advertising in the UK has more than doubled to GBP500 million in 2012, up 148%, mainly driven by the adoption of smartphones and tablet computers and the increasing use of apps, according to a new report. PwC's study for the Internet Advertising Bureau revealed that British firms spent about GBP5.42 billion on online advertising in 2012, up 12.5% compared to year-on-year. The study also revealed that mobile currently accounts for 9.7% of all digital advertising spend compared to 1.1% in 2009.

No, there are no traffic reports from the Appian Way, nor does the station assign a political reporter to the Forum. But, on Friday evenings before the main news broadcast, the Finnish Broadcasting Company presents five or six short news stories in Latin. In recent weeks, the subjects have included the financial crisis in Cyprus, an unusually brilliant aurora borealis and the election of Pope Francis. While the broadcasts once went out over the airwaves, with shortwave reception for listeners outside Finland, more and more listeners tune in to the program's Web site, through podcasts and MP3 downloads.

Digital revenue growth among online publishers in the UK is expected to grow by 15% in 2013 according to the fifth annual organisation census by the Association of Online Publishers, while technology and data will play an increased role in revenue streams and recruitment policy. Advertising is still the main source of revenue for the majority of members but the changing nature of the industry is seen as playing a key role in diversifying revenue.

Near You Now, which is located at the Sussex Innovation Centre in Falmer, will let news sites present content to readers based on their locations. Speaking to Journalism.co.uk, founder Anthony Sheehan said the content can be presented in a range of ways, such as via a mobile app, live stream or just a series of links on a news site. "As a user hits that page they place a call to our service and we return them the 10 most appropriate, most relevant, local stories for that user and that place at that time," he explained.

Tony Gallagher, the editor of the Telegraph, said that even the newspaper's email address for reader tributes was "filled with abuse" and it decided to close the comments down. The paper, which traditionally supports the Tory party and was edited by the former Conservative cabinet minister Bill Deedes during seven of the eleven and a half years of Margaret Thatcher's reign, was singled out for abuse on Monday by Thatcher critics.

Facebook has started charging its UK users up to GBP10 to contact celebrities, public figures or other users outside their network as part of its efforts to prevent users being flooded with spam messages. Initially launched as a trial scheme in the UK, the social network's new system is aimed at private messaging and create a sliding scale of payments to celebrities. According to the social networking site, the charging fee structure differed as per the number of factors that include the number of followers and a secret fame algorithm.

The site, which aims to give men ideas for things to do with their "spare money, spare time and spare mind", has been running for three years and makes money both through advertising and a metered paywall, charging readers GBP1.50 a month for access. Blokely is now planning to sell licences to journalists who will run the regional sections as quasi-independent businesses and earn a revenue share.

England's not-for-profit football governing body The FA has launched the first foreign-language version of its website in China in response to the increasing international reach of the England team. The key digital platform, theFA.com, will be available in Mandarin and will be complemented by an England and The FA Cup's presence on popular Chinese social networks Weibo and Sina, as it looks to create online communities for Chinese fans.

That's according to research from Kenshoo exclusive to The Drum. The report, conducted during the fourth quarter of 2012, spanned the Kenshoo platform comprising over 100 advertisers and totalling GBP1 billion's worth of paid search spend globally. UK search spend jumped 21% from the third to fourth quarter, while the US saw spend climb even further with a 30% rise, but Europe saw volume spend drop by 4%.