Google ‘plays hardball’ in Spanish news row

Threat to shut down Google News in Spain over payment demand could be bargaining tactics by the search company

From Mary Berry to Xbox Studios, the big winners and losers of 2014

Boris Johnson and Nick Clegg helped LBC to go national, and BBC3 prepared to fall off the TV schedules

Carnegie UK Trust calls for online start-ups to receive backing to fill local media gaps

Presenters left exasperated and viewers amused as robot cameras take their own view after state of the art upgrade

Editor Franklin Foer quits over plans for radical digital makeover of the 100-year-old magazine

Alison Flood: Author unleashes stream of apoplectic tweets after her novel was not included on list of 2014’s literary highlights

Amazon CEO admits that failures have cost the company dear but experimentation like the Fire Phone is key to survival

Ben Child: Author and physicist suggests his computer-generated voice would make him ideal foil for 007

David Dinsmore applauds YouTube and Vine for taking steps to remove content that infringes Premier League broadcasting rights

Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday’s continuing decline in advertising and sales offset by digital platform’s increases

Advertising Standards Authority rules that video paid for by Oreos brand that featured YouTube stars broke advertising code

Newsquest’s pro-independence Scottish daily sells all 60,000 copies of debut edition as title looks to recruit more staff for pilot period

News UK title near doubles number paying for access from last year, with majority taking up £7.99 per month package

Total Film publisher reports £35.4m loss in year to end of September, with digital making up 63% of total ad revenue

Regional newspaper publishers pool ad space to compete with tech companies such as Facebook, Microsoft and Google