It is understood the production and photographic production departments will be the hardest hit at the Group, which produces the Glasgow-based Herald, Sunday Herald and Glasgow Evening Times. Staff were given the news on Thursday afternoon. Scotland's NUJ organiser Paul Holleran said the union was very concerned at the latest job cuts and criticised American parent company of publisher Newsquest, Gannett.

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has come out with a mammoth study that looks at the attitudes of consumers towards different platforms and traditional news outlets, and says there has been "a significant shift in public attitudes towards digital news, with more than twice as many people paying for digital news content than a year ago." Does this mean that media companies can rest easy, knowing that their paywalls and subscription plans are going to become a growing source of revenue? In a word, no.

An Idaho photographer, Kai Eiselein, has filed a copyright lawsuit against BuzzFeed, claiming the site used one his images without permission for a soccer montage called "The 30 Funniest header faces." The lawsuit, filed in New York earlier this month, claims BuzzFeed owes more than $3.6 million in damages as a result of the soccer pic appearing on 64 sites around the web. According to Eiselein, who uploaded the original image to Flickr, BuzzFeed is liable for "contributory infringement" because the site's viral news model encourages readers to share the content they find.

Last weekend's Sunday People splash showing Nigella Lawson apparently being attacked by husband Charles Saatchi has been viewed 20 million times, according to a well-placed source at the paper. The story is already the most popular article ever published on MirrorOnline. A Trinity Mirror spokesperson declined to reveal the precise amount of traffic generated by the picture-led exclusive.

Facebook now has more than 1 million companies and brands advertising on its service, with 61% of its users in the UK having 'Liked' at least one local business' page on the social network. The 1 million milestone was announced by Facebook's director of global marketing solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses, Dan Levy, on the company's blog.

Cyber-attacks, long the weapon of choice for intelligence services, political dissidents and anti-capitalist protesters seeking to hobble their enemies, are seldom used to pump smut into the primary-coloured and innocent world ofchildren's animation. But on Monday, Peppa Pig, her brother, George Pig, and their parents, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig, found themselves the victims of a hacker with too much time on their hands - and too many grubby thoughts on their mind.

Netflix is to continue its global expansion drive by introducing its film streaming service to the Netherlands later in the year. The U.S. firm is keen to further expand its presence in Europe with this being its seventh territory on the continent, the first in a more cautious roll-out programme after earlier breakneck expansion racked up losses.

Almost GBP400 million in print advertising is forecast to be lost from the UK newspaper market by the end of 2014, with digital revenues only able to make up about 25% of this decline, according to a new report by Group M. Group M, WPP's worldwide media buying operation, said that the total UK ad market is looking to be in relatively rude health this year, underpinned by an increase of more than GBP1 billion of digital ad investment by the end of 2014.

Skype has launched the full version of the video messaging service for Windows desktop, Windows 8, Mac, and its mobile clients for iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry. The service allows users to send recorded video messages of about 3 minutes to friends that can be played when they come online and it has been released following the trial version launched in February this year.

Rocket Fuel is expanding its European presence with the launch of a new office in Spain, as it looks to work with Spanish clients to deliver multi-channel campaigns through programmatic buying. The new Madrid office will be led by newly-appointed managing director Juan Sevillano Zabala, who joins from Tradedoubler, where he was vice-president of LatAm and managing director of Spain and Portugal.