In his final column of the year, Ray Snoddy looks back at some of the most interesting and impactful media business stories of 2017.

It’s time to intensify debate about the full range of impacts social media is having on society, writes Raymond Snoddy.

As intriguing details about the billionaire octogenarian’s latest cunning plan emerge, Raymond Snoddy examines the plot twists.

Not even a long-range ballistic missile could stop the national papers from going potty over the Royal engagement news, writes Raymond Snoddy. Is it justified?

From labelling judges ‘Enemies of the People’, to calling MPs ‘collaborators’ and ‘mutineers’, public discourse through the press is fast deteriorating, writes Raymond Snoddy.

Dozens of countries are using armies of online opinion-shapers to try to manipulate democracies. The seriousness of the situation requires the most serious and open of responses from Google, Facebook and Twitter.

Following talks to sell parts of his empire, Raymond Snoddy wonders if the media mogul has launched a complex, three-dimensional chess game, or is simply succumbing to old age.

The Daily Mail’s ludicrous headlines are the product of a commercial strategy to entice elderly readers – but the demographics are changing, and at some point the newspaper will have to modernise its editorial stance.

Raymond Snoddy reports from the IPSO Road Show, where editors and media experts discussed the future of independent self-regulation of the press.

…Facebook and Google are publishers and so must take on the responsibilities that entails. By Raymond Snoddy.