Jo Baldwin, has been promoted to take on the role across the wider Bauer Media group. She will be responsible for driving the growth of 'non-traditional digital revenues', according to a statement, and 'supporting the digitalisation' of the sales teams. She will also oversee Bauer ticketing service Aloud.com to develop revenue in the live entertainment market.

The Herald launched its paywall in 2011 and reported in January this year that digital subscribers had reached 5,600, taking the number ahead of print subscribers for the first time. In the last year, online subscriptions have grown by 125 per cent, and a statement from the Herald and Times Group - which is owned by Newsquest, said the rate of increase had grown in the last quarter.

It was well past midnight the morning of June 14 on the East Coast of the United States when Los Angeles Kings defenseman Alec Martinez slammed home theStanley Cup-winning goal deep into the second overtime. In hockey-mad Finland, the deciding game was played in the dead of night, with the final goal coming after 7 a.m. local time. But the first game story many Finnish fans read that morning wasn't written in Los Angeles, or even Helsinki - but rather Sydney, Australia where it was already past 2 p.m. Sunday when the Kings' celebration began.

Search engines Bing and Ask are working on "policies and procedures" to deal with 'right to be forgotten' requests. A representative from Google, meanwhile, which has already created a 'right to be forgotten' online form, revealed his company has received 75,000 take-down requests and is receiving 1,000 more every day.

The BBC World Service yesterday launched a 'pop up' news organisation in Thailand in an effort to circumvent the restrictions they say are affecting press freedom since the Thai army seized power in May. Publishing direct to Facebook and using the social media platform's Notes feature as a content management system (CMS), articles will focus on national and international news and reaction to the ongoing political situation.

The producer of The Guardian's weekly Media Talk podcast has taken less than a month to crowdfund his way to GBP9,000 to keep the programme going for a year. The podcast, along with the Music Weekly audio show, was axed by The Guardian at the end of May. Producer Matt Hill announced plans on 13 June to raise GBP9,000 in donations to keep the podcast going for a year under The Media Podcast name.

The German parliamentary committee investigating NSA activities in the country may use non-connected, mechanical typewriters to protect its work, committee chairman Patrick Sensburg suggested on Monday. Sensburg also said he was advising members to check their smartphones, after the uncovering of spies working for the U.S.

David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, has revealed that his next work will eschew traditional publication routes and instead be drip fed onto the micro-blogging platform Twitter in 140 character installments. The Right Sort, a short story said to be unconnected to his next novel, will be packaged up onto chunks of 20 tweets to be published over the next seven days.

The final of the 2014 World Cup broke all existing record to become the most popular sporting event in both Facebook and Twitter history, the social media sites have revealed. The match between Germany and Argentina spawned a total of 32.1m tweets over the course of its broadcast, with an incredible 618,725 tweets per minute being recorded as the final whistle sounded. This took it past the previous record of 580,166 tweets per minute, which followed Germany's fifth goal against Brazil in the semi-finals.

Snapchat may be best known for its "ephemeral" messaging, but the company is experimenting with a new way to share live events. Just hours before the World Cup final between Argentina and Germany, all Snapchat users were given access to "Our Story" - a collection of curated Snaps from users in Brazil.