Donovan Neale-May has outlined three ways in which content marketing can be optimised for success. In an interview with Mila D'Antonio of 1to1media.com, Neale-May claimed that there were three individual ways in which brands could be sure their content marketing efforts were geared up to be a success. The first was to have a clear focus.

The Respect Party MP has joined up with filmmaker Greg Ward to produce The Killing of Tony Blair, an anti-Tony Blair project that will "bring together many the things George has been fighting for during his long political career". Ward said that the film will detail "how Blair killed the Labor Party, killed hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq and how he made 'a killing' out of doing both".

The creation of compelling and engaging graphic representations of stories has become an important part of any large news organisation's output. Which is why the Financial Times has recently struck a deal with MapBox, a platform for creating custom maps. "As a global news organisation we have to be prepared for the eventuality of having an event happen pretty much anywhere in the world," Martin Stabe, head of interactive news at the Financial Times, told Journalism.co.uk.

Founder and editor Milo Yiannopolous told Press Gazette the site has secured financial backing from technology investment entrepreneurs Berlin 42. The Kernel was forced to shut in March after former editor Jason Hesse won a lawsuit against the title's parent company, Sentinel Media, which could not afford the GBP16,853 of unpaid wages it owed him.

Independent and Evening Standard content director Chris Blackhurst has claimed that "senior politicians" have urged newspaper editors to establish their own regulator outside of the auspices of a Royal Charter. Blackhurst told BBC Radio 4's The Media Show that politicians, whom he would not identify but described as "household names", had called him and other editors to "go alone". The calls came, according to Blackhurst, despite the three main Westminster political parties already having agreed a Royal Charter on press regulation due to be considered this autumn.

Individually, online reading time increased, Neil Thurman, the study's author and senior lecturer in electronic publishing at City University, told Journalism.co.uk, but not enough to offset decreases in print. The study, titled Newspaper Consumption in the Digital Age, looked at "time spent reading" data for the titles but did not include data from apps. There is a large disparity between the relative success of individual titles, however.

The website linked to the suicide of the teenager Hannah Smith is facing a backlash after several major companies decided to withdraw advertising from the site. Specsavers, Vodafone, Laura Ashley and the charity Save the Children have all pulled ads from ask.fm. Hannah, 14, was found hanged on Friday after being bullied on the website.

A new study has proved once again that good customer service is crucial to the running of small businesses, reportsfreshbusinessthinking.com. One way that small companies could guarantee that all queries are answered would be to have someone monitor their social media news feeds at all times, or at least be clear as to when there would be someone around.

The email service used by secrets leaker Edward Snowden has abruptly shut down, shocking 350,000 customers. Its owner said it wouldn't "become complicit in crimes against the American people"and is taking its fight to court in the area that US national security agencies are headquartered . A second encrypted e-mail service , Silent Circle, has also announced it is preemptively shutting down its service, saying they "see the writing on the wall."

The i newspaper is advertising once again for second-year undergraduates to publicise the title on university campuses as student brand ambassadors. The benefits i lists of being a brand ambassador include "invaluable" experience in papersmarketing and event management, and the opportunity to build contacts. The position also grants students "campus reporter" status, with the possibility of having work published in i newspaper, or on the Student section of the Independent website.