Celebrities protest at ‘crazy’ redundancy of Age arts critic
Geoffrey Rush and Helen Garner petition editor over sacking of Philippa Hawker. Plus News Corp’s finest just can’t leave Waleed Aly alone
SoundCloud to introduce advertising and subscriptions in UK
Music streaming service to feature audio ads, promoted tracks alongside subscription service that allows users to opt out of receiving commercial content
Richard Desmond’s firm in £25m loss after price cuts and digital investment
Northern & Shell puts 2015 losses down to cutting prices of Star and Express titles and significant investment in digital publishing
Comcast’s NBCUniversal to buy DreamWorks Animation in $3.8bn deal
Deal will bring together Despicable Me and Minions maker with Shrek studio, creating a force to rival Disney
UK ad market booms but newspapers lose £155m in print advertising
Total market grows at 7.5% to £20bn in 2015 but national press reports 11% fall to £1.2bn and slowdown in digital ads
Brave move at Advertising Week Europe’s adblocking event
Mozilla founder Brendan Eich is put on a panel with News UK’s Chris Duncan – whose parent company is suing him
Fears of adblocking ‘epidemic’ as report forecasts almost 15m UK users next year
Report suggests nearly 30% of British web users will have installed software to strip advertising from web pages by end of next year
Google claims YouTube ads are more effective than TV
Television industry reacts angrily to report suggesting that in 80% of cases adverts on video website are better in driving sales
New York Times to invest $50m on global digital expansion
Publisher sees opportunity for the NYT to become an ‘indispensable leader in global news and opinion’ over the next three years
UK digital ad spend shrugs off ad-blocks with fastest growth in seven years
Advertisers spend record £8.6bn in 2015, with slots on mobile devices driving growth to highest level since 2008
Guardian to consider preventing access to content if ad-blocking proliferates
David Pemsel, chief executive of Guardian Media Group, says newspaper is undertaking testing of pop-up message asking readers to switch off ad-blockers
Daily Mail publisher in talks with companies over Yahoo takeover
Daily Mail and General Trust aims to take on news and media properties if a private equity company strikes a deal
Mashable raises £10m and signs video deal with Turner
Turner’s TBS and TNT businesses will co-develop and distribute video content with the internet news provider
Vice Media attacked for making tobacco adverts for Philip Morris
Company should not use its expertise in targeting young people to help the tobacco industry sell cigarettes, say campaigners
BBC and ITV in talks to launch a Netflix-style streaming service
Subscription video service is likely to focus on providing popular older, archive TV content, not the first-run of shows