Newsworks, the marketing body for the national newspaper industry, today announces that David Pattison will become its new and first ever independent, non-executive chairman.

The overall national daily newspaper market was down 8.7% year on year for September – 825,000 less copies circulated. Compared to last month the latest data shows a 1.6% drop or 144,000 copies shed.

Newsworks has appointed former MediaTel Newsline editor Liz Jaques as communications manager.

The Future Foundation’s James Murphy and Richard Nicholls on how the disappearance of devices and furnishings re-defines human space and re-shapes buying behaviour.

Commercial television channels saw their network revenue decline in August as the BBC dominated ratings around the London 2012 Olympics.

The MailOnline continues its digital success with the highest number of daily average unique browsers – up 7% from July to August 2012. Its total is now up to almost 6.6 million.

The Future Foundation’s Josh McBain and Patrick Fagan on why Consumer Capital promises better informed, more confident shoppers and a greater commercial transparency all round…

The metrics session at MediaTel’s Connected Consumer event next week will be preceded by a short presentation from Andy Littledale, founder of SecondSync.

Commercial television channels saw their network revenue decline in July as the BBC dominated ratings around the London 2012 Olympics.

Three regional newspaper groups in our analysis enjoyed increases in the January to June 2012 period – Newsquest (Midlands South), Advertiser (North of England) and the Bristol Observer Group.