Guardian Media Group appoints David Pemsel as chief executive

Former ITV marketing director, who wants to build on Guardian and Observer’s international audience, succeeds Andrew Miller

Telegraph website wins battle for general election readers

All national newspaper websites record increase in traffic for May as the country went to the polls

Apple News app to rely on editors rather than algorithms for curation

Plans to hire ‘ambitious, detail-oriented journalists’ to work on recently-unveiled app, but what happens when Apple becomes the news?

The Guardian to set up innovation lab for mobile news

Creation of US-based team, whose work will be shared with other news organisations, follows $2.6m grant from the Knight Foundation

When pictures pose problems for an image-conscious public

Open door: There are more complaints than ever about the use of images, and requests for their deletion

JK Rowling hints Fantastic Beasts movie will reveal ‘American Hogwarts’

Twitter exchange suggests Harry Potter author will also draw on Native American traditions for the ‘magizoology’ script she is working on

Kickstarting a books revolution: the literary crowdfunding boom

Authors, publishers and literary journals are all finding new ways of connecting directly to their readers – and their wallets – on online platforms such as Kickstarter

Twitter blocks Politwoops for breaching terms of service

Archiving statements made, then deleted, by elected officials goes against social network’s rules, it says, as UK spin-off’s fate hangs in the balance

Jon Connell: ‘People increasingly want help with filtering out the noise’

Founder of the Week, on why the magazine has become more relevant, why it hasn’t changed in 20 years – and his saviour Felix Dennis

First Minecraft magazine to launch in the UK

Dennis Publishing strikes deal with Mojang, creator of building game, with first print run set for 45,000 copies

Guardian signs global video deal with AOL On

YouTube-style portal adds newspaper to list of partners that includes Channel 4 News, ITN, and the Telegraph

Mail Online growth fails to offset print decline

Website boosts income by 20% to £36m in six months, but DMGT reports 4% drop in total revenue across its Mail businesses

Future Publishing reports first US profit in seven years

T3, Gizmodo and Total Film publisher also reports 50% of its revenues now come from digital and diversified businesses

Trinity Mirror’s UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d thought to be facing axe as jobs set to go

Digital media brands set to be sacrificed with staff roles in UK expected to be lost ahead of company’s expansion in North America

Facebook Instant Articles: BBC News and Guardian sign up to initiative

New initiative, which also involves BuzzFeed and the New York Times, speeds the process of loading news articles on the social network