Noises off: Michael Billington gets the animation treatment

Chris Wilkinson: Theatre bloggers report a new website allowing users to input dialogue and generate virtual drama – and some videos can't resist focusing on the industry itself

Richard Branson launches Project as ‘first truly digital’ magazine for iPad

Virgin tycoon will be up against Rupert Murdoch's Daily

Telegraph plans to charge for some digital content

Publisher understood to be examining online revenue models, but is not thought to be considering full Times-style paywall. By Mark Sweney

News Corp Kremlinology: what do the Times paywall numbers mean?

Cory Doctorow: The publisher has released some numbers for its paper's subscriber-only site – but they leave more questions than answers

Guardian journalist wins award for Iranian protest coverage

Saeed Kamali Dehghan from Iran has been named the journalist of the year at the Foreign Press Awards

Alan Rusbridger: Why Twitter matters for media organisations

In an extract from his Andrew Olle lecture, the Guardian editor-in-chief sets out 15 things Twitter does effectively

Economist launches iPhone and iPad apps

Magazine targets 1 million digital users within three years using subscription model similar to the Financial Times. By Mark Sweney

The Independent’s i lines up paid-for iPad application

Subscribers to i's iPad app, which launches on Friday, will be charged £1.79 for 10 issues of the daily and get five issues free. By Mark Sweney

Peeping Tom, pornography and the press

Peter Bradshaw: The film's depiction of pornography, as a flourishing adjunct to the 'respectable' worlds of cinema and newspapers, was what really shocked in 1960

Newsweek and Daily Beast agree to merger

Former New Yorker editor Tina Brown named editor-in-chief of new group, to be called the Newsweek Daily Beast Company. By Mark Sweney

Investigative journalism ‘dying a death’

Sheffield Doc/Fest: Panorama and Dispatches documentary-maker says financial pressures are curtailing newspapers' and broadcasters' reporting. By Josh Halliday