• Guardian's Janine Gibson On Storytelling
    Janine Gibson was editor of the Guardian US and she led the paper's New York coverage of the Edward Snowden story to industry acclaim. Now, she's headed back to London as editor in chief of theguardian.com. Gibson recently spoke to a research fellow with the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers for the World Editors Forum's upcoming Trends In Newsrooms report.
  • EU Court Rules Against Google On Link Deletion
    The highest court in the European Union decided on Tuesday that Google must grant users of its search engine a right to delete links about themselves in some cases, including links to legal records. The decision by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg is a blow for Google, which has sought to avoid the obligation to remove links when requested by European users of its service.
  • Police Told Blogger To Delete Tweets, He Says
    A blogger has claimed two police officers visited his home to advise that he take down tweets about UKIP policies. Michael Abberton, a Green Party member, was told by the two Cambridgeshire Police officers he was being visited following a complaint from a UKIP member. Police confirmed the visit but denied Abberton was advised to delete the Twitter posts.
  • Startup Shows How To Build A Connected Pill Bottle
    PharmAssistant, a Portuguese startup, has brought Bluetooth to the connected pill bottle. The company is taking pre-orders for a $30 pill bottle that connects with an app to tell you when you need to take your meds and help others track your compliance. Given the demands of remote caregivers and the challenges associated with remembering to take medicines, the market seems ripe for such a product.
  • Instagram Ads Working Pretty Well
    Instagram ads, just six months old and limited to a select group of 15 brands, are already showing promising results, according to exclusive data given to Adweek by the social photo sharing site. Internal performance figures on ad partners Taco Bell, Ben & Jerry's and Hollister provide a peek under the hood of how this platform will fare when it goes wide in late spring.
  • Twitter Fix Seen As Optimising For Abusers
    Caroline Criado-Perez argued in a blog post that a change in the forms used to report harassment "has once again optimised its platform for abusers". "Less than a year after they started to automatically include links to abusive tweets in the report form, they have silently removed this functionality,"Criado-Perez wrote. "There has been no announcement, no explanation.
  • Up Against Sky, YouView To Double Number Of Staff
    According to The Guardian, the online service, backed by BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Five, BT, TalkTalk and Arquiva, is to expand to as many as 170 members of staff following a five-year deal with its shareholders, which could see an extra injection of GBP100m made. The deal will see each shareholder agree to pay a minimum of GBP1m a year to the scheme.
  • Sun Says Service 'Innovation' Spurred Paywall Success
    The Sun newspaper has said that customer service 'innovation' was a key factor in the success of its online version Sun Plus, when it moved behind a paywall in August last year. The newspaper overhauled its contact centre operation ahead of the paywall by creating two new customer service channels.
  • Law Against Aggregation To Be Introduced In Spain
    New legislation is set to be introduced in Spain to prevent news aggregators from reproducing other's content without payment. Paul McClean speaks to a digital media consultant and a representative of the Spanish Publishers Association to discuss the ethics of aggregation.
  • I Circulation Dips After Price Rise
    The Independent's cut-price sister title may have felt the impact of a 10p price rise last month as sales fell 5.6 per cent year on year to an average of 287,206 a day. The Monday to Friday cover price for i increased to 30p at the end of February. The Guardian, which increased its cover price to GBP1.60 in February, fared better with a year on year rate of decline of 2.2 per cent to 191,717.
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