Duffy has been appointed as non-executive chaiman of the TV venture - which has ITV, BBC, Channel 5, Channel 4, Arqive, TalkTalk and BT as shareholders - and will take over from interim chairman Sir Charles Dunstone immediately. Duffy is currently non-executive chairman of bwin.party digital entertainment and mobile company mBlox.

The new venture that lured Guardian writer Glenn Greenwald away from the title in the midst of the Edward Snowden NSA leaks is backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and involves film maker Laura Poitras and The Nation's Jeremy Scahill. According to Jay Rosen of Press Think, who spoke to Omidyar about the project, he got Greenwald on board with his idea earlier this month after learning he had already been planning to form a new journalism venture with Scahill and Poitras.

The shift from print to digital journalism can lead to an increase in editorial staff according to the Financial Times. Mary Beth Christie, the title's head of operations, said that since going "digital-first", the number or journalists on staff has increase to more that 650. "That is more editorial staff than during our history." She was speaking at a Digital Editors Network data conference held at News UK's Wapping HQ.

Social gaming firm Rekoo is looking to invest in London's Tech City cluster, the first high-profile Chinese company to open a base in the city. Rekoo said the London office would be used to market its games to consumers across the rest of the continent, while collaborating with other European and UK-based associates to bring out their products in Asia.

Friedrich Nietzsche is best known for his works Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-92) and Beyond Good and Evil (1886) and his famous statement that "God is dead". The phrase first appeared in his 1882 work The Gay Science and repeated several times, including in Thus Spake Zarathustra. Other key Nietzschean concepts include the superman (bermensch) - the overman who rises above the herd and ideas of good and evil.

Tech City News, Vice and the Monocle took gold at The Lovie Awards yesterday, with the Guardian, Financial Times and Huffington Post all securing silver-level recognition. The London-based awards celebrate "the entire breadth of content created for the internet", with accolades covering five main categories: websites, mobile and applications, internet video, online advertising and social. Each category is then split into different sub-categories. A panel of judges decide on the winners of the gold, silver and bronze awards.

Its Clash of Clans and Hay Day games have made Finnish startup Supercell one of the biggest mobile games firms in the world this year,grossing $179m (GBP116.7m) in the first three months of the year alone. In April, Supercell raised $130m of venture capital funding valuing the company at $770m, but six months later it has announced another cash injection that puts even that in the shade.

Projects can be started online ahead of the launch from today, and workshops will be held in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Auckland to 'walkthrough' the process of building a project. "Beginning today (like, right now!), people in Australia and New Zealand can start building their projects by clicking on the "Start a project" button on the Start page," Kickstarter announced.

Unlike text-based stories which are picked up by competitors and published quickly, visualisations are "content that cannot be copied", according to data journalist Esa Makinen. Speaking at Digital Journalism Days, a conference in Warsaw organised by Polish title Gazeta Wyborcza, Makinen explained the many advantages of data journalism and talked through the approach.

Viral content site BuzzFeed plans to launch French, Spanish and Portuguese homepages this month - but to do so, it won't rely solely on traditional translation or regional editors. Instead, BuzzFeed will use language-learning site Duolingo to translate some of its most popular content. Duolingo has about 10 million users and has raised over $18 million from investors including Union Square Ventures.