Luke Bozier, the entrepreneur who set up Menshn last year with then-MP Louise Mensch, announced the closure of the Twitter-style social network in a post on his website. Bozier wrote: "Louise and I no longer have anything resembling a working relationship, and she no longer wishes to run a company in which I own shares." Launched in June last year, Menshn was intended to be a topic-based alternative to Twitter and, early on, was pitched as a home for political discussion.

Almost one in five consumers (19.6%) now prefers to buy all their music as downloads, says trade body the BPI. Last year, 27.7% of UK music fans purchased downloads from stores such as iTunes or Amazon; or streamed songs on services like Spotify or YouTube. Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know was the most-streamed song of 2012, closely followed by Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe with more than 3.7 billion tracks streamed in the UK in 2012 or 140 per household.

The independent music magazine is to close eight years after it was launched, its owners have announced. Editor Phil Hebblethwaite confirmed yesterday that the December/January edition will be the last edition of free bi-monthly newspaper, which had an average circulation of 54,588 according to its most recent ABC figures. Hebblethwaite hinted that he could come back with deputy Alex Denney to work on the website "but not unless we can find a way to fund things properly".

Figures released by News Corp today reveal the enormous ongoing financial impact of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. In the three months to 31 December the company incurred $56m (GBP35.7m) in costs relating to phone-hacking - bringing the total figure to more than $340m (GBP216.9m). Lawyers at News Corp's UK publishing arm News International have been settling claims with phone-hacking victims since the Sunday tabloid was closed in July 2012.

Last week Trinity Mirror announced plans for "significant changes to its publishing operations" across its regional newsrooms, with a "greater emphasis on the production of digital content". This includes a proposed "newsroom 3.0" model, which it plans to roll out across all its regional newsrooms pending consultation. The publisher hopes the introduction of a new workflow will enable it to become a "fully-fledged, digitally-focused news operation", as editorial director Neil Benson said in the original announcement.

A new combined circulation chart has been announced by the UK magazine industry trade body that will show the performance of both print and digital editions. The Professional Publishers Association (PPA) intends to use the new system for the first time to report the July-December ABC figures, coming on February 14. The PPA noted that the magazine industry has seen a "significant" growth in consumption of digital magazines in forms almost identical to the print edition, such as tablet magazines.

The takeover sees Planet Rock joining Bauer's growing portfolio of national radio brands joining the likes of Kiss, heat, Q, Kerrang!, The Hits and Smash Hits. Planet Rock was put up for sale in September last year by owner Malcolm Bluemel after it reportedly chalked up losses of around GBP300,000 a year. Bluemel had purchased the station in 2008 from GCap Media and invested GBP3 million of his own money into the station but failed to make it profitable.

The British Journal of Photography, which has been in print since 1854, has been taken over in a management buyout and will form part of a new digital media company called Apptitude Media. The company comprises the team behind the British Journal of Photography and is led by chief executive Marc Hartog, the former publishing director of the BJP. It promises to "help-reinvent the magazine, combining old-world publishing expertise with a proven talent for publishing to tablets and smartphones".

Trinity Mirror is to introduce a set of five newspaper templates that will be used across its entire regional newspaper portfolio. The news comes as details begin to emerge about the radical 'digitally-focused' publishing operation unveiled last week that will see a net loss of around 40 editorial jobs at the publisher. Trinity's 130-plus portfolio includes the Western Mail, Liverpool Echo and Manchester Evening News.

Future's Football Week is its "first product" in a publishing partnership with the Press Association, Mike Goldsmith, editor-in-chief of digital editions as Future Publishing, told Journalism.co.uk. He said we could expect more live-updating apps - as PA can provide feeds on a range of subjects, not just sport - and because the specialist magazine publisher has developed its platform for creating apps, digital editions can now take a feed from any source.