Freeview and Digital UK will develop a new, free connected TV service which will make on-demand TV accessible to viewers on internet-connected smart TVs. The five-year plan to develop and market Freeview Connect was announced by shareholders the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV on Thursday and the service aims to "make the best of broadcast and on-demand TV available free for everyone."

Internet users who look at copyrighted material online aren't breaking copyright by doing so, the Court of Justice of the European Union declared on Thursday. Before you splutter "Well duh" at your screen, note that this judgement finally ends a very long-running and somewhat stupid legal debate over rights relating to online newspaper clippings. This is a useful ruling that will apply across the EU, much to the chagrin of certain publishers.

The role of social media in delivering news and engaging with readers has become more important than ever. Homepage traffic is declining as increasingly readers find news via social networks - coming in through the 'side door' - and news organisations continue to experiment with ways to cater to this change in audience behaviour. For local news outlets, which tend to have smaller teams and fewer resources, responding to this digital turnaround may be more of a challenge.

The WSJ. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal's lifestyle publication, is launching two new editions; the WSJ. Magazine Brasil and WSJ. Magazine Amrica Latina. The two new editions, which will be printed in Portuguese and Spanish, respectively, will be published four times a year: October 2014, December 2014, April 2015 and July/August 2015.

Jurors in the hacking trial have been told not to be "dazzled" by the defendants' power and influence when they decide their verdicts. Mr Justice Saunders began summing up the case against former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks (pictured, Reuters) and Andy Coulson and five others on the 126th day of the trial. He told the jury that everyone was entitled to their privacy and should not have their phones hacked.

'Telegraph Reach', an example of one of The Telegraph's audience extensions, will facilitate a genuinely new route to market by allowing enhanced postcode targeting to enable TMG to deliver highly relevant and targeted campaigns including Telegraph Reach consumer packs, magazine distribution and in-home sampling, say the publishers. Running alongside the Telegraph's weekly inserts offering, 'Telegraph Reach' will also include digital packages to offer a complete multi-media solution.

Internet phishing scammers are targeting fans of Oscar Pistorius with bogus Facebook pages that solicit public donations to fight the murder charge against him. The latest such con appears on a profile purporting to be that of Carl Pistorius, the athlete's older brother, and has been condemned by his family, who are seeking to shut it down.

The BBC is to wield the axe on 600 staff in its news and radio departments as part of an ongoing cost cutting drive by its director of news and current affairs, James Harding. Reports suggest up to 500 people could be lost from BBC News with a further 80 roles relinquished at BBC Radio, with further cuts also in the pipeline.

At the end of March, there were 6.8 billion mobile connections around the globe, meaning there were more than 9.3 cellular links for every 10 people living on the planet, according to Ericsson's latest Mobility Report. That puts the world on pace to reach 100 percent mobile penetration in 2015, meaning the number of mobile connections will surpass the population.

Online video news network Zoomin.TV announced today an exclusive license agreement with The Washington Post for the content of its digital video channel, PostTV. The partnership makes Zoomin.TV the first and only digital platform in Europe and Latin America that can deliver video produced by The Washington Post and translated to information sites online.