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Mark Thompson, the outgoing director general of the BBC, has been appointed as the new president and chief executive of the New York Times.

The BBC’s Olympic coverage was a huge success, not just for TV but also for digital and mobile. The corporation logged 34.6 million cumulative online users – with a peak daily total of 7.3 million on 5 August – by the end of Saturday, just as the Games came to a close.

Jim Marshall on why TV has never been either more powerful or more intimate: Now that the BBC has proved TV’s credentials during the Olympics, it will be fascinating to see whether Channel 4 can continue this during the Paralympics, but this time with ads…

STV has partnered with Glasgow Caledonian University and Edinburgh Napier University in a bid to deliver two new local television channels in Edinburgh and Glasgow – ETV and GTV.

The UK’s oldest comic is facing closure after 75 years. The Dandy, priced at £1.99, saw its circulation drop to 8,000 in the second half of 2011.

IBM has reportedly expressed an interest in acquiring the enterprise-services unit of Research in Motion (RIM) – thought to be the company’s most valuable asset.

With the 2012 Olympic Games definitely, properly over the BBC felt that Monday night was the right time to unleash a plan in order to keep the momentum going.

NBC outperformed its own predictions for its Olympic coverage, despite criticisms during the past two weeks.

Ellie Edwards, MD at QUISMA: Now that the dust has slightly settled on the D-Day of 25 May, let’s take a look at the effects that the EU e-privacy directive has had within Europe…

The YouView homepage now features an app for BSkyB’s Now TV, with films available for as little as 99p.