• Sky Joins Facebook Ad Boycott
    Facebook is under pressure to tackle offensive material on the site afterBSkyB became the latest major advertiser to pull its campaigns from the social network. The pay-TV giant has suspended its marketing campaigns on Facebook after one of its advertisements appeared alongside offensive content earlier this week.
  • Digital First Media CEO Urges Risky Behaviour
    News outlets need to focus on "reducing legacy costs and investing in digital", the chief executive of Digital First Media told the Global Editors Network. In his presentation to the conference, John Paton signalled a "bright future" for news outlets which are prepared to take risks and invest in the areas of growth - i.e. digital. He said Digital First Media itself will "look remarkably different from where it is today".
  • Sunday Herald's 2nd Issue Of Life On IPad App
    The second issue includes features on Annie Lennox, Calvin Harris and film director Bill Forsyth. The iOS only app, which is developed with the backing of Scotrail, also features recipes and the second parts of directories of Scottish fashion designers, film directors, authors and the arts.
  • Nearly Half In Australia Lie To Protect Online Privacy
    Forty-seven per cent of Australians provide inaccurate information about themselves to websites as a privacy precaution, a paper by the Australian Communications and Media Authority has found. The report is on privacy and personal information. It found that more than a third (36%) of respondents said they would rather not use a service than give inaccurate information. Only 17% said they are happy to provide accurate data about themselves.
  • Live On YouTube: It's Wimbledon
    Wimbledon's channel will also include interviews, behind-the-scenes content and press conferences when the two-week tournament starts today. The Rolex-sponsored live stream will be accessible in the UK, US, Canada, Netherlands, Belgium, Cyprus, New Zealand and South America (with the exception of Brazil). Highlights will be available globally, except in the UK, US, South America, Germany, Austria and Italy. Additional content will be available to all YouTube viewers around the world.
  • Google Privacy Breaches Claimed By France, Spain
    The French National Commission on Computing and Freedom (CNIL) and Spanish data protection agency, La Agencia Espaola de Proteccin de Datos (AEPD), have started proceedings against Google over privacy policy. CNIL ordered Google to comply with the French Data Protection Act, within three months or face fines. AEPD has accused Google of breaching five data privacy laws in Spain, punishable with fines of EUR40,001 to EUR300,000.
  • Social Comment Costs Civil Servant A Promotion
    A civil servant was banned from promotion for a year following "misuse" of social media, official documents show. The employee was one of seven staff members disciplined by the Welsh government for writing "inappropriate comments" on Facebook or Twitter during the past five years. The civil servant was issued with a written warning and prevented from career progression for 12 months after posting remarks that were deemed to breach the civil service code on Facebook.
  • Evening Standard Sees Largest Traffic Gain
    Visitor numbers to the website of the freely distributed commuter title rose to 4.7 million, compared to 3.9 million in April, the biggest month-on-month percentage increase among audited national UK newspapers in May. The increase represents a recovery for the Standard, after monthly figures had fallen from 4.2 million in April, as it also recorded the biggest increase in terms of daily visitors, breaking the 200,000 mark with an increase of 13.47%.
  • Mail Online's May Audience Highest Ever At 129M
    Its average global total for daily 'browsers' was 8.2 million, up 46.8% year on year. Its total number of unique browsers for the month was 129 million. Meanwhile, audience growth for Telegraph.co.uk has been slowed - but not halted - by the decision to put the site behind a metered paywall at the end of March. It remains the third most popular newspaper website in the UK with 2.8 million average daily browsers.
  • Trinity Mirror Plans Largest Photo Archive Anywhere
    All of the archives will be centralised into a single library in Watford, which will bring decades of photographic content, across many titles, under the same roof. Consolidating the archives in one central library creates a single shared resource that all of Trinity Mirror's journalists can access in print or online, while also bringing new commercial opportunities to the group. The archive will also be searchable in its entirety as a complete unified collection.
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