CCTV footage of Rebekah Brooks's husband allegedly hiding evidence from the police investigating phone hacking has been shown to the jury in the Old Bailey trial. Charlie Brooks was recorded coming down the lift from their apartment in Chelsea Harbour and entering the car park carrying a jiffy bag and a laptop. Moments later he is clearly seen returning to the entrance of the lift empty-handed.

The number of text messages sent by mobile users in the UK has dropped for the first time in two decades by 7bn to 145bn in 2013. The lower figures come as new smartphone owners turned to web-based instant message services including WhatsApp and Snapchat, according to a new report. Deloitte's latest annual technology predictions report revealed that the number of text messages is anticipated to drop again to 140bn this year.

Employers no longer see a traditional CV as an effective way of assessing potential candidates, new research has revealed. Recruitment specialist Hello My Name Is... questioned hundreds of UK business leaders to ascertain what makes one CV more engaging than another and discovered that candidates uploading a video accompaniment alongside their CV that have the edge. This direct approach has gained the support of several corporate firms that are inundated with applications.

The Telegraph Media Group made over GBP60m last year, marking the third year in a row the company has increased its operating profit, according to reports. Roy Greenslade revealed the figure in his Guardian media blog and said TMG is expected to formally announce results in the spring when it files its 2013 accounts with Companies House.

As the New Year kicks off, you might feel you're still stuck in an old job. Whether you're looking for a fresh challenge or you're just stepping into the industry for the first time, the range of positions you could fill has never been broader. The digital revolution has also revolutionised marketing recruitment - marketers are now heavily recruiting for positions that would never have been thought of years ago. Creative and tech is merging in more ways than ever throughout the creative and marketing industries, and the skillsets required by employers has significantly changed.

It has sold the office of the Hemel Hempstead Gazette and the five journalists on the title, which has a paid-for weekly circulation of just over 9,000, now have no office and work remotely. Whereas it has become common for staff on local weeklies to be moved from town centre offices to remote centralised locations, this is believed to be the first time a major publisher has tried publish a newspaper without an office altogether.

Stories range from students hospitalised by dodgy drugs and vice-chancellor pay rises to "UK's horniest student bollocked by bigwigs" and "The most annoying hashtags on Instagram". Unlike so much student journalism, the site's content is lively, brash and, perhaps more importantly, perfectly designed for sharing on social media. For a student publication, it has had an impressive number of its stories covered in the nationals - from freedom of information requests on Cambridge University's disciplinary procedures to the viral "milking" craze.

Closer, the French magazine which broke the story of an alleged affair between president Francois Hollande and actress Julie Gayet, has agreed to pull the story from its website. The magazine claims the photos it published online, as well as for an exclusive story in its print edition, show Hollande arriving at a Paris apartment followed soon after by Gaynet. The report suggested that he had "got into the habit of spending the night".

A new 'micro magazine' launched this week with the aim of helping journalists and publishers get to grips with opportunities in the app and mobile world. The first issue of App Publisher magazine was released on Apple Newsstand yesterday in a move that founder Paul Blake also hopes will test the viability of creating low cost 'micro magazines' for Apple Newsstand. "If developing an app feels like it's a scary, expensive thing to do, it doesn't have to be," he explained.

The 1% are about to get their own publication. The digital media titan Arianna Huffington and the billionaire investor Nicolas Berggruen on Wednesday announced the launch of World Post, a comment and news website that looks set to become a platform for some of the most powerful people on the planet. Inevitably, the World Post will be launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this month.