The related report, published today, states that out of the 589 journalists from the UK who took part in its worldwide 2013 Social Journalism Study - carried out by Cision and Canterbury Christ Church University - 96 per cent interact on social media "on a daily basis", and 92 per cent do so on Twitter in particular. This compares to the 70 per cent who, two years ago in 2011, said they engaged with social media each day, and the 80 per cent for whom Twitter was a regular tool in 2012.

The comments section below YouTube videos is an infamously troll-ridden Wild West of abuse, ignorance and spam. But possibly not for much longer. Google's online video service is rolling out changes to the way comments work on YouTube, giving creators more power to moderate and block comments, and adding new sorting mechanisms to ensure better, more relevant discussions appear at the top.

Google has worked with R/GA London to launch Google Outside, a pilot scheme that brings search outdoors running across 160 sites in London providing information on local attractions, weather and travel information. Designed to help Londoners and tourists alike, the screens use the same Google Now technology which is used in smartphones to provide location-based, real-time information.

The Sun is "learning all the time" about its digital audience and how to measure engagement, following the introduction of its online paywall in August, according to editor David Dinsmore. While he would not reveal any paywall-related statistics, Dinsmore did give a glimpse into the mind of The Sun in terms of where it places itself in the digital content market, identifying BuzzFeed as a competitor.

The launch, revealed at its 2014 Upfront event in London today, will see a range of "creative" and "experimental" short-form commissions brought exclusively to 4oD. This includes a format called Extracts, which features some of the most tweeted about moments from the broadcaster's shows based on Twitter data.

Italy's centre-left Democratic Party, which is the senior partner in the country's ruling alliance, has proposed a legislation to make internet majors including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others to pay more taxes on their revenues generated in Italy. The tax dubbed as "Google Tax" law, which is aimed at raising government revenues, is anticipated to raise about $1.35bn per year.

BreakingNews, the mobile-first news curation service, has relaunched its iPhone and iPad app and website to give a more personalised service. The new update gives users the ability to 'mute' specific topics, add stories of interest to a list of trending headlines and create alerts to receive push notifications on certain topics to iOS mobile devices. The same updates are planned for the Android app soon.

The New Statesman has announced record website traffic with more than 2.5 million 'users' visiting the magazine's website newstatesman.com in October. This follows an earlier record of 1.84 million unique users in August, the magazine said in a statement (which quoted Google Analytics figures). Helen Lewis, deputy editor of the New Statesman, said: "Russell Brand's essay was a huge success for us, with more than half a million hits, nearly 90,000 Facebook interactions and 1,000 tweets".

This means that the site will carry no display advertising but has instead signed up a number of commercial partners whose products are promoted within the editorial content. The site is the brainchild of Trinity Mirror's director of Sunday brands Sue Douglas. She previously led a consortium which had sought to buy The People and revamp it in the spirit of the now defunct News of the World.

In Europe, the company's data analysis predicts 12% of total online sales will come from mobile devices, a 68% year-over-year increase. This growth greatly exceeds mobile holiday sales growth in the US, which will hit 14% of online holiday sales, or 40% YoY growth. If these two growth rates hold the same for 2014, European mobile sales as a percentage of all online holiday sales will equal or slightly exceed US mobile sales.