BuzzFeed are continuing to expand their serious side with the appointment of Paul Hamilos as foreign news editor, based in London. The appointment is the latest in a number of hires in the UK and around the globe as BuzzFeed World, launched last August, broadens the emotional palette of the organisation beyond light-hearted, shareable content

Andy Coulson today denied knowing that Milly Dowler's phone was hacked while he was in charge of the News of the World. He did not know the practice was illegal but would have regarded it as "intrusive" and "lazy journalism", he told the jury at the Old Bailey hacking trial. Giving evidence for a second day, he said that before the Dowler incident he was only vaguely aware of accessing voicemails "in the ether".

We have all accidentally posted something on social media and broken out in a body-wide sheen in fear of slipping down our carefully constructed ladder of social credibility - but imagine if you're a brand. In light of American Airlines unfortunate model-plane-vagina catastrophe, .rising has compiled a list of the best (or worst) branded social slips. Enjoy.

Sarah Hardcastle, in a T-shirt reading "women who eat wherever the fuck they want", produced a bottle of juice neatly relabelled "bloody feminist cocktail". "It's very bitter," she explained. The gathering in a London underground train carriage was a response to a controversial Facebook group entitled Women Who Eat on Tubes, featuring surreptitious mobile phone photographs of just that.

Zeebox has completely rebranded and overhauled its strategy, after realising the app's main user was a "geeky male" and it had effectively become seen as "a new-fangled social TV guide" rather than the social network and TV participation experience it had set out to be.

There hasn't exactly been an outpouring of new material from The Intercept - the high-profile First Look Media property that includes newly crowned Pulitzer Prize winners Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. Editor John Cook said the main reason for the radio silence is that the new entity is still trying to figure out how things are going to work and hiring writers and editors.

You can't buy one of those yet, but The Guardian is bringing an experimental print version it has been working on to the United States for the first time: a printed paper that is generated entirely - or almost entirely - by algorithms based on social-sharing activity and other user behavior by the paper's readers. Is this a glimpse into the future of newspapers?

The Local now has offices in seven countries across Europe and is on the verge of opening its eighth office in Austria. "What happened early on is we realised that we didn't have any money," Paul Rapacioli told Journalism.co.uk, "but if we can get the global media writing about the stories that we're covering, and citing us, then that's the way to lift our profile."

The report reiterates serious industry concerns regarding the reform of the regulatory system in the United Kingdom, while revealing cautious optimism from those who believe current proposals to be an opportunity to restore public trust following Lord Justice Leveson's Inquiry into press standards.

With social media becoming an increasingly attractive prospect for businesses across the country, many of them are taking tentative steps into a world with which they may not be at all familiar. As such, the wealth of data that's on offer with a social media campaign can prove to be a somewhat daunting prospect, which only leaves brands feeling alienated.