The BBC is to launch daily infographics distributed on social media as part of continued experimentation into reaching audiences on new platforms in innovative ways. From 19 May, two infographics per day on current news topics will be shared on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest before they are collected in a weekly round up on the BBC website.

Rebekah Brooks will have to be deemed by the jury to have been a "complete fool" not to have known requests for payments for a reporter's "number one military contact" was a public official, it was claimed at the phone-hacking trial. Brooks has been charged with approving illegal cash payments when she was editor of the Sun to the reporter's source.

This week, The Guardian's editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger told the IPA Members' Lunch about the journey the publisher has taken from a single-country, print publication to a real-time, global, digital-first, multimedia operation. He admitted The Guardian has not done enough to move forward its video output - an aspect which is critical if it's to engage the younger generations.

Three weeks after 257 girls were snatched from their school in Chibok, a fortnight after the BringBackOurGirls hashtag first appeared on Twitter, and a day after Barack Obama described the kidnapping as both heart-breaking and outrageous, the eyes of the world are finally and firmly fixed on events in the remote reaches of northeastern Nigeria.

Holding public figures to account has always been one of the central tenets of journalism and digital tools have made it quicker and easier to fact check claims made by politicians or businesses. At the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, delegates were treated to an occasionally heated debate over fact checking from the founders of leading websites from around the world.

Online comments are a constant source of consternation at many news organisations and publishers, as too often the conversation can veer off into in-fighting between commenters or off-topic posts. Speaking at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, ProPublica's senior engagement editor, Amanda Zamora, shared three ways to think about online comments that could create a different experience for readers and journalists.

urors in the phone-hacking trial were today told to consider who knew about the "rotten state of affairs" that went to the top of the News of the World. Former editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson and ex-managing editor Stuart Kuttner are on trial at the Old Bailey accused of conspiring to hack phones. Summing up the case after seven months of evidence, prosecutor Andrew Edis QC told jurors: "There was a rotten state of affairs at the top of the organisation. What you have to decide is one or two steps about that."

Designed to complement the print title, The People's Friend website hosts interviews with the magazine's fiction and regular features writers, recipes and travel articles, a 'Meet the Team' section and blogs from The People's Friend Fiction Editor Shirley Blair and popular travel writer Willie Shand ('Willie's View'). The website will also feature competitions, a behind-the-scenes glimpse into putting together the magazine's food and craft pages from Cookery Editor Marion McGivern and Knitting Editor Liz O'Rourke.

The Online Media Awards has announced the nominations for 2014, with the Guardian, BBC, Financial Times and Al Jazeera among the titles to have been nominated across multiple categories. Now in their fourth year, the awards are sponsored by iomart and Unanimis and supported by the Press Gazette, the Press Association, NUJ, Cision, The British Journalism Review and the Society of Editors.

Time Out Group has acquired US digital event guide Hugecity, a service which pulls in Facebook data to identify and target relevant events at users. The service pulls in the Facebook preferences of its users and their friends, and their locations, to deliver personalised events, and has more than four million events added to its app by Facebook users every month.