The Weekly Beast: SMH v BuzzFeed, Nine’s ratings success and SBS troubles
All the week’s events in media news, including allegedly disrespectful visitors to Parliament House and Australia
Fifty Shades of Grey protests escalate
Domestic violence campaigners and religious groups are opposed to the BDSM-filled film, but it is anticipated to be one of the most successful releases of the year, with Imax screenings now planned
Beyoncé, cute kittens or relentless tragedy? Is good news really news at all?
As the industry ponders the number of gloomy stories, our relationship with news seems to be changing
Follow the money and you’ll find the future of news
Peter Preston: Emily Bell and James Harding are thinking challenging thoughts about the media. But the bottom line is still the bottom line
PR blog ghostwriting: it’s time to give up this tired practice
PRs should only encourage a client to blog if they have something worth saying and can write it well
Bloomberg switches off comments in website redesign
Business news agency’s new global portal combines bloomberg.com and businessweek.com – but users will have to have their conversations about its content on social media
Charlie Hebdo launches app version featuring prophet Muhammed cover
Latest issue of French satirical magazine available in Apple and Google Play stores
GCHQ captured emails of journalists from top international media
Snowden files reveal saved emails of NY Times, BBC, Guardian and more by agency which sees investigative journalists as ‘threat’ akin to terrorists
The dating game that went viral
Jessica Walsh and Tim Goodman, who turned a relationship experiment into the hit blog 40 Days of Dating, contemplate movie stardom, writes Hermione Hoby
US Central Command Twitter account hacked to read ‘I love you Isis’
Twitter avatar used by @CENTCOM was replaced with an image of a masked militant and the legends ‘CyberCaliphate’ and ‘I love you Isis’
Sasha Frere-Jones leaves the New Yorker – a Genius move?
One of the world’s pre-eminent music critics has rejected traditional media to work for the bro-ish web startup out to ‘annotate the world’
The 88 movies we’re most excited about in 2015
Think 2014 was a good year for film? Think again. This year is shaping up to be one of the classics. Here’s what’s on our radar
From YouTube to Facebook – will video be the one to watch in 2015?
It may be the era of the television mega-indie, commercial radio is ready for a BBC showdown – but print is still being pressed, say our experts
Belfast Telegraph editor quits to take over at the Brighton Argus
Mike Gilson appointed to his fifth daily newspaper editorship
220 journalists are now in prison across the world
Annual survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists shows China and Iran have most journalists in jail