In the UK, BuzzFeed claims to have attracted 15m unique users in June, making it bigger than the Express, Star and Evening Standard websites. The UK staff upload 30 to 40 stories a day, but British homepage can also take its pick of up to 500 articles a day which appear on BuzzFeed globally. While most news websites rely on search engine optimisation for much of their traffic, BuzzFeed gets most of its readers from social media.

Tweetminster co-founder and CEO Alberto Nardelli is joining the Guardian as data editor. Nardelli co-founded Tweetminster in 2008, which was designed to help people find MPs on Twitter. It has since grown into a technology and news company compiling data and trending topics in politics, media and business.

As Amazon continues to tighten the screws on book publishers like Hachette - by making its books difficult to find, impossible to pre-order, and so on - the conventional wisdom seems to be that the company is an aggressive and possibly illegal monopoly aimed at killing publishers, and that its behavior is also bad for authors and probably consumers as well. The only problem with this view is that most of it, if not all of it, is completely wrong. What Amazon is doing is not only good for book-loving consumers but arguably good for authors as well - and …

Now the ruling has been implemented Google has started to redact offending articles on its website, starting with a blog by BBC economics editor Robert Peston on Stan O'Neal, the former boss of investment bank Merrill Lynch forced out after it "suffered colossal losses on reckless investments it had made". The implication for anyone interested in finding controversial information is that it will be harder if you are googling from the EU. And so we're going to teach you how to bypass it.

Yahoo is closing its Contributor Network website, resulting in articles by hundreds of writers from over the last two-and-a-half years being deleted from the internet. The Contributor Network, which typically paid at least GBP15-20 up-front for articles and an extra 70p per 1,000 page views, will close down in mid-August. One affected writer told Press Gazette: "This is the work of hundreds of young writers, thousands of articles, going up in smoke.

In 2014, children are playing Minecraft, watching YouTube and playing with apps - but they're also still reading books, watching TV and playing with toys. Kids are more digital, but that doesn't mean they're abandoning traditional sources of entertainment. That makes an event like the Children's Media Conference very interesting. Founded as an annual gathering in Sheffield for children's TV creators and executives, in recent years digital has played a growing role.

Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan was rated the UK's most influential online reporter by the Press Gazette's Social Media Journalism Awards. Morgan, who has a Twitter following of over four million people and regularly argues with Sir Alan Sugar and Jeremy Clarkson, is no stranger to controversy. On picking up the award, the TV personality, whose CNN show was axed earlier this year , said: "I don't win many awards as you can imagine.

BrightMove have announced that more geo-targeted digital ads will be coming to the top of London black cabs. The rollout of the technology will begin in September, culminating in the introduction of 400 new screens by the 1 October 2014, with a total of 700 screens being introduced by the end of the year.

Nokia may have one of the biggest mobile network-building operations in the world, but you would have hardly noticed in the U.S. over the last decade. When the 4G revolution kicked off, Nokia landed a single contract: T-Mobile's LTE network, which it split with Ericsson. But Nokia's network fortunes are improving in this key global market, and it's starting to scale its operations to meet new demand. On Wednesday, Nokia announced it is acquiring Chicago-based SAC Wireless, an engineering firm specializing in the planning and logistics of network deployment. Nokia didn't reveal the financial terms of the deal.

The National Union of Journalists has condemned as 'pitiful' a website which is encouraging freelance writers to work for GBP5 per 150 words. A senior editorial manager for Quill said they needed writers who are "passionate about art, music, theatre, food and drink" to turn information about events into a "personable, chatty description that really sells the event". She said she wanted freelance writers to produce 10 to 15 pieces a week at GBP5 for 150 words, the equivalent of 3.3p per word. The NUJ suggests a minimum rate for online content of GBP275 per thousand words.