Former News International CEO and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks is to be charged with three counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. The Guardian reports that Brooks is one of six individuals who will be charged over allegations that they tried to hide documents and computers from police officers who were investigating phone hacking.

The Huffington Post, CNN and Mediaite all reported on a Tweet sent from a account in the name of North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue, without realising that it was a spoof, reports Poynter. The article links to Poynter’s own advice on best practices for verifying information from social media.

Mathew Ingram argues in an article for GigaOm that Twitter is edging closer to becoming a media company, after it announced on Monday that it will be launching a weekly curated email, and released a job advert last week for the role of “sports producer”.

Have front covers lost their edge? As more and more news migrates online, it would be easy to think they might have.

When it comes to online news, not only is there no fixed “front cover” on most newspaper websites - which are updated throughout the day. The news that goes on a newspaper’s homepage is also not necessarily what pulls in the audience.

“Seventy-five percent of uniques are coming from external sources, only 25 percent are coming to the homepage,” said Google’s head of news products Richard Gingras, in a recent discussion about online journalism at the Paley Center’s international council of media executives, quoted by paidContent

Do you enjoy your job? Do you think you’re doing the right thing? Do you have a purpose?

Those are the questions media companies should be asking its employees if they want to succeed in a rapidly changing media environment.

Tomas Brunegård, CEO of Sweden’s Stampen Group, puts an inspiring finish on the 11th annual Newsroom Summit with a look at the big issues facing news media as they cope with changes that impact the industry’s ability to fulfil its central role in democratic society.

He points out how the media can help transform regions, as it has done in the Arab Spring. “There is a major democratic movement going on around the world, and this is one of the changes we are seeing: the power of media.”

He also says the rapid pace of technological change, particular the “tornado” of mobile growth, is a positive development for news media.

“We are in the right spot and the right time with the right tools, and it is up to us not to screw it up,” he says. “We were taken by surprise by the internet. We were not taken by surprise this time.”

Mr Brunegard identifies several “enemies” of change that media companies need to discuss openly and deal with.

One is credibility, and the image the industry has with government and the public. “We need to deal with this, because it locks us into a position which has an impact on our ability to work freely,” he said.

Who owns the social media relationship?

“It isn’t Facebook, it isn’t Twitter, and it isn’t you,” says Francois Nel, Founding Director of the Journalism Leaders Programme at the University of Central Lancashire in the U.K.

“Relationships are established, maintained, even dissolved. They aren’t owned, not by anyone, and they depend on reciprocity,” he says.

In a presentation at the annual Newsroom Summit on “the alchemy of social business model innovation,” Mr Nel compares the performance of two of the U.K.'s most successful media companies online: the Mail and the Guardian.

He notes that while both enjoy exponentially growing audiences in the digital sphere, the Mail is highly profitable and the Guardian is loss-making. He attributes that to the companies' different approaches to online content.

While the Mail keeps digital and print separate – even allowing different content to be created and published on digital platforms – the Guardian largely uses its digital platforms as a substitute for the print edition, he says.

“With the Mail, we see a strategy where the digital channels supplement the papers,” he says. “At the Guardian, the digital channels substitute the paper.”