Always one of the most passionate debates, MediaTel Group’s Future of National Newspapers event has a new venue this year – in the auditorium at Merrill Lynch – and an impressive panel line-up, including NI’s Dominic Carter, GN&M’s Chris Pelekanou and Mail Newspapers’ Guy Zitter…

The Daily Mail publisher has enjoyed a solid performance from its B2B and events businesses, however, it has been hard it by dwindling ad revenues, particularly in Q2, and redundancies and re-organisation costs (mainly in A&N Media).

Johnston Press is set to turn five of its daily newspapers into weeklies as part of a shakeup by chief executive Ashley Highfield.

There has been lots of speculation over the launch date of YouView, after the connected TV service from partners including the BBC, ITV and BT was delayed in 2010/2011 amid rumours of technical difficulties.

Whether to check emails or to look up programme or product information, watching TV while using a tablet or smartphone is more common than not according to a Q4 2011 Nielsen survey of connected device owners in the US, UK, Germany and Italy.

Infographic: Hot on the heels of The Killing, Borgen and Those Who Kill comes The Bridge, the latest Nordic Noir TV drama to leave Denmark.

The BBC has lost the will to fight for live sporting events, according to Sir Paul Fox – who was the managing director of the BBC Television Network from 1988 to 1991.

The daily newspaper market is down -7.4% on March 2011, with just one title posting an increase over the year. i continues to see its circulation rise. The title is up 59.7% on this time last year (it released its first ABC figure in January 2011). Postively, a number of titles saw their circulation figures increase PoP.

According to Business Insider’s Chart of the Day, there are only two smartphone companies that matter – Samsung and Apple.

Google has reported strong Q1 earnings – up 60% year on year to $2.89 billion (£1.81 billion), with gross revenues also up by 24% to $10.65 billion.