Sun website to scrap paywall
Publisher News UK set to make U-turn and offer its content for free from 30 November in bid to compete with rivals such as Mail Online
Philip French obituary
Eloquent and incisive chief film critic of the Observer for 35 years
Telegraph hires editor of Bauer’s The Debrief
Lifestyle chief Jane Bruton recruits former Grazia colleague Hattie Brett
Google launches €150m fund for publishers’ digital news projects
Internet giant says funding will have ‘no strings attached’, with larger grants needing approval from a council including the Telegraph’s Murdoch MacLennan
Apple News arrives in the UK with 14 newspaper and magazine partners
Newsfeed aggregator included in iOS 9.1 update features content from the BBC, Telegraph, Times, Guardian, Sun and Sky News
Fly, funky and fearless: meet the Black Romantics
London is seeing the rise of a new wave of young black creatives, from style queen Swanzy to painter Barka and performance poet Belinda Zhawi. Is this the future of Afropolitanism?
New York Times links with Google for VR project
Publisher to distribute more than a million cardboard virtual reality headsets to NYT subscribers
City AM becomes first UK newspaper to ban ad blocker users
Financial freesheet launches trial that will blur out text of stories for desktop Firefox browsers who are detected using ad blocking software
Martin Sorrell on newspaper digital ad slowdown: ‘paywalls are the way to go’
WPP chief says publishers cannot rely solely on digital advertising, adding that his marketing services group is re-evaluating its spend on Google and Facebook
BBC Trust chair: ‘not a huge appetite’ from press for local journalists plan
Rona Fairhead says there is no evidence the BBC has crowded out local media as she admits proposal to fund 100 journalists has not been widely welcomed
Newspapers face up to the ad crunch in print and digital
As the top ten print advertisers strip their budgets, digital ad growth is hit by slowdown
Sun website traffic slips by 14%
News UK title’s daily visitors fall to 1.1 million, with the Daily Star, Mirror and Metro hit after end of football transfer window
Mail raids Microsoft for chief to lead global digital expansion
James Leaver will head up international growth of Mail Online outside its core markets of the US, UK and Australia
Jon Steinberg to leave Daily Mail’s US digital operation
US digital chief to leave role at end of year after joining last June to run US expansion of DailyMail.com
Emap brand to be scrapped as all its titles move digital-only
Publisher Top Right to move business-to-business brands including Drapers, Retail Week and Nursing Times out of print over the next 12 to 18 months