A second and final round of judging will take place in June to decide the winners in all categories apart from Front Cover of the Year, which will be decided by an online public vote at www.ppa.co.uk/theppaawards. The winners of The PPA Awards 2014 will be announced on July 10 at a ceremony at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London's Mayfair.

Among the new features Zuckerberg announced for Facebook at the F8 developers conference in San Francisco, the 'like' button for mobile apps, an app 'deep-link' ability, and a way of off logging in to third-party apps anonymously should make Google just a little bit afraid. Not to mention Facebook's announcement of a mobile ad network.

Suggesting the phone-hacking scandal was down to "bad apples", Sajid Javid said in Parliament: "We must be careful to recognise that the press and their freedom is a cornerstone of our democracy." The new Cabinet minister spoke as a Court of Appeal judge rejected a bid by newspapers and magazines to continue a legal battle over the Government's rejection of the industry's own press regulation charter.

On the second day of the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, delegates were treated to a round up of data journalism trends and developments from around the world. Aron Pilhofer, the New York Times's director of digital strategy, opened the session by giving three examples of where data journalism should be heading. His first came from the Guardian.

"There is no such thing as 'the news' in the way it was 50 years ago", believes David Dunkley Gyimah, an award-winning video journalist and a lecturer at the University of Westminster. Speaking at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, he noted that though much has changed in the news industry, the format and methodology for video reportage has not.

Charles Caldas, chief executive of independent music licensing body Merlin, is the latest to criticise YouTube, in a keynote speech at this week's Music Connected conference in London. "If we look at our partners like Spotify, Beats and Rdio, and the high-value versus low-value companies in the food chain, those companies are at the top of the food chain: they're paying what we consider to be the top rates," said Caldas.

The UK has embarked on a "global race for tech talent" as it looks to position itself as a leader in the global start-up ecosystem, according to the new CEO of Tech City UK Gerard Grech. Speaking at a Microsoft Ventures event in London this week, Grech, who took up his role as CEO from Joanna Shields on 3 February, said Tech City is focused on making the UK a "pioneer" and world-class, leading country when it comes to "digital competitiveness".

Britain has slipped down the global rankings for freedom of the press as a result of the government's crackdown on the Guardian over its reporting of whistleblower Edward Snowden's surveillance disclosures. The annual index of media freedom, published on Wednesday, attributes the UK's drop to "negative developments", mainly the way the government responded last year to the Guardian.