"The report warns that people entering careers such as medicine, law and journalism are increasingly likely to be from more affluent families."

There are currently 25 courses offered on the site, and the company expects to launch more after a new version of the Exmainer.com website goes live soon. (Examiner University is also home to a video guide to the new website.) The core courses are delivered using a combination of audio, video and text. Other course topics include "grammar considerations," "plagiarism," "finding photos online," "proofreading," "writing locally," and "SEO considerations," to name just a few. The "finding photos" and "writing locally" courses are among the most popular.

"When it comes to news video, slickness can be a drawback; in an increasingly UGC-driven world, it’s video that’s grainy (and bumpy, and poorly framed, and generally amateurish) that tends to imply authenticity. As we move, in our news, from vertical structures to horizontal, our expectations about images themselves are moving along with us."

The Oprah Magazine, that's expected in the fourth quarter will let users buy e-books and read them within the app itself.

"Mr Justice Tugendhat had ruled that the Times was entitled to rely on the defence of Reynolds qualified privilege in regard to the print article, but that it had lost that privilege on the article on its website after an investigation exonerated Flood."

iCurrent provides its users with a single page of aggregated news based primarily on topics they specify they are interested in; users can update the page to add or remove specific topics and news sources.

"This is not a debate about "dead tree technology", but about the future of journalism as a job for which people get paid. If, as I assume, NewsCorp and GMG both think it's important to preserve that, surely they should wish each other well in their attempts to find a way of doing so?"

This site provides a simple bookmarking service. We follow your twitter feed, and whenever a status you tweet or re-tweet contains URLs, we add them to your delicious.com bookmarks

In short, newspaper websites do not have 'a community', they have various 'communities of interest'.

"Guardian News & Media doesn’t disclose its web earnings but, judging from Gentry’s slide, snapped by AOP director Lee Baker, The Guardian’s tartlet is about 15 times smaller than its pie…That despite Guardian.co.uk’s monthly unique user count being about 130 times greater than its average daily circulation – the same kind of disparity with which most publishers are familiar."

"All the way through we were talking to the readers, or customers as we now call them, and responded to their needs," he added.

"She said in a blog posting: "Reaction to my tweet was immediate, overwhelming and provides a good lesson on why 140 characters should not be used to comment on controversial or sensitive issues, especially those dealing with the Middle East.""

The Apture Site Bar is a new way to give readers more information without leaving the page.

Mirror group journalists have voted in favour of a strike over proposed job cuts. Eighty-three of the 159 members of the British Association of Journalists have returned ballots, with 65% (54 people) voted for the action.

The latest and perhaps broadest effort yet in democratizing the news is under way at Yahoo, which on Tuesday will introduce a news blog that will rely on search queries to help guide its reporting and writing on national affairs, politics and the media.

Or, to quote the exact words of Michael Johnston, managing director of JP's Scottish division: "We possibly did not invest enough in journalism" and "my own group made a number of ill-advised acquisitions."

His digital experience and enthusiasm are likely to see him take a senior position in News Int's digital division.

The Ben Franklin Project’s one-shot deal is the preparation of all daily newspapers in the Journal Register Company using free software for publication on the Fourth of July, a symbolic declaration of independence from proprietary software.

"But the big unknown is the one that really matters. Will forcing people to pay for content generate enough revenue to sustain a major journalistic enterprise? The only way to find out is to do the experiment. Rupert Murdoch may be richer or poorer as a result, but we will all be much the wiser."

California: Google, the search giant, is set to acquire software firm ITA, in a move that catapults the company into the heart of the $80 billion (€63.5bn; £52.7bn) online travel business.