The move comes less than a week before the high-profile launch of Beats, which is challenging Spotify with an enormous marketing campaign that includes promotional deals with AT&T and Ellen DeGeneres and is expected to include an ad that airs during the Super Bowl. Unlike Spotify, Beats will launch without a free tier after a 7-day trial, making it harder for them to attract casual users and then convert them to paying customers.

There are new ways of doing journalism as the digital revolution moves on. But what are these innovations? How do they work? How are they changing journalism, and with what effects? City University London is hosting a panel discussion on 28 January to explore these developments and the challenges they pose. It will be chaired by Professor George Brock, City's head of journalism, in room A130 in the College Building. Doors open at 6pm, with the discussion beginning at 6.30pm and a drinks reception from 7.30pm.

Europe's digital chief is already claiming that "newly disadvantaged U.S. startups" should move across the Atlantic - but a similar net neutrality disaster could still happen in the EU, if key proposals aren't tightened up. Neelie Kroes yesterday tweeted: Watching US #netneutrality news. Maybe I shd invite newly disadvantaged US startups to EU, so they have a fair chance. Really, Neelie?

The chief executive of bookmaker William Hill has closed his public Twitter account after a bizarre Saturday night row between himself and campaigners against high-speed, high-stake betting terminals. Ralph Topping, the four-decade betting veteran who says he "never forgives" an insult, got involved in a heated discussion on social media between his public affairs manager, Andrew Lyman, and the Campaign for Fairer Gambling 10 days ago over the fixed odds betting machines.

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN-IFRA) has arrived in the UK amid concerns over press freedoms in the wake of the Royal Charter press regulation legislation and the treatment of the Guardian newspaper following the Edward Snowden revelations. WAN-IFRA has previously sent delegations to countries such as Ethiopia, South Africa, Libya, Yemen, Colombia and Azerbaijan, and the trip marks the organisation's first press freedom mission to the UK.

James Harding, the BBC News director, believes the corporation has an obligation to deliver local news and the problems facing localnewspapers are "not the BBC's fault". Harding, the former Times editor, in his first public speech since joining the BBC in August last year, said he thought the view that the corporation should limit its local news output for fear of damaging local newspapers was mistaken.

Johnston Press has announced the appointment of Jeff Moriarty, currently VP for digital products for The Boston Globe and general manager for Boston.com, as chief digital and product officer. Moriarty will join Johnston Press in April with responsibility for the vision and development of the company's digital strategy.

Russian web giant Yandex has struck a deal with Facebook that will see it index publicly posted content on the social network that comes from the countries Yandex covers - Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkey. This "firehose" deal is similar to that signed a few years back between Facebook and Microsoft, relating to the Bing search engine. Twitter also invites others to drink from its firehose, and Yandex has been a happy partner on that front since early 2012.

The Guardian has removed a post by Emma Gilbey Keller about Lisa Adams, who blogs and tweets about her cancer. Keller's story was followed by an opinion piece by her husband, former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, who linked to it. Both posts attracted criticism. Boing Boing editor Xeni Jardin said on Twitter the Keller stories were "Shoddy, shitty, heartless, inaccurate grandstanding."

"Everyone's aware that the news industry is in crisis and no one's really worked out how to offer content for free, pay journalists and make a profit," says William Stolerman, founder of The News Hub, a publishing platform he hopes will be able to do all three. "There are only a couple of businesses that are cashflow positive. I don't think it should be that way."