Even in a digital-media landscape that is dotted with odd startups, Medium is a strange beast: founder and former Twitter CEO Evan Williams has said it uses the magazine as a guiding metaphor, and yet it is also a platform for anyone to publish. It has "collections," which are sort of like mini-magazines, and yet the site itself is like a magazine. As part of the relaunch of Matter, a journalism startup that Medium purchased last year, Williams tried to put some of the questions about his site to rest, but instead seems to have only compounded the confusion.

Alexander Klopping writes, "I'm co-founder of a journalistic startup from the Netherlands called Blendle(the first true iTunes for journalism in the world). Excitement around journalistic startups is quite rare-we're dealing with the old world of newspapers and magazines. Indeed not the most sexy industry in the world. But currently, against my own expectations, I'm living the startup founder's dream."

News Corp Australia's lawyers have written to Mail Online publisher Martin Clarke, listing 10 instances where it alleges Mail Online has copied articles from News Corp titles. Mail Online launched an Australia edition in January this year as part of a bid to grow its global traffic. In April it averaged 10.9m unique browsers per day worldwide, of which 6.3m were outside the UK. According to News Corp-owned daily The Australian, Mail Online is accused of "blatantly lifting content" from Australian titles.

While your marketing department may be most interested in public sentiment around its latest hashtag campaign, your PR department may want to track trends in negative sentiment for crisis response. Synthesio's guide, KPIs For Social Media Monitoring, helps you divide your tracking strategy to please all the arms of your business.

Telegraph Media Group (TMG) and MediaCom have launched an innovative video-led campaign for Audi, tracking two teams of sporting heroes as they compete to reach Le Mans first, using the least fuel, in an event which echoes the world famous 24-hour race.

Scotland Yard must embrace social media more effectively to dismantle and quash gang culture in London, according to New York police officers. Evidence on the territories and memberships of gangs, and crimes committed by them, has never been easier to find online, US police said, adding that tracking the electronic footprints of criminals had led them to crush entire gang structures in Manhattan.

At first it seems like a playful (and mildly insulting) term, but the cause is serious: German project"Krautreporter" aims to be the country's biggest crowdfunding campaign in journalism ever. The funding phase has now been running for three weeks. The goal is to find 15,000 people who commit to paying 60 Euros ($80) a year. Here's an insider's view of the campaign and our lessons learned so far.

CNBC has brought in John Armah to lead its digital strategy outside of the US. As head of digital for international, he has also been tasked with managing CNBC's product offering, overseeing digital video production and ensuring that content is integrated across the network's linear and digital properties.

The BBC and ITV have signed a new deal with Fifa to broadcast the 2018 Fifa World Cup and 2022 Fifa World Cup across TV, radio and online. The 2018 finals will be the 14th consecutive Fifa World Cup that BBC and ITV have broadcast together.

The carrier group has published a very lengthy and reasonably detailed breakdown of its interactions with law enforcement and spy agencies, covering 29 countries where its operators have faced metadata and wiretap requests. In the U.S., similar reports have been issued in recent months by Verizon and AT&T, though neither carrier has anything approaching the breadth of Vodafone's operating business portfolio.