The Huffington Post' Twitter account got hacked on Sunday 15 January sending out a series of homophobic and racist tweets, Mediaite reported.

According to reports by Economiaweb.it, the Italian publishing group RCS - which publishes the main Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera - intends to sell the French publishing house Flammarion. A potential buyer - the article reported - could be the French publishing house Edition Gallimard.

Sarah Lacy, who left TechCrunch earlier this year, has started her own tech news site PandoDaily.com, which will feature three more of TechCrunch's former bloggers, Michael Arrington, M.G. Siegler and Paul Carr, reports All Things D.

Peter Preston of The Guardian writes that, despite the decline in the tabloid press and the revelations of the Leveson inquiry, popular papers have done much to shape British society.

Poynter reports some disagreements about the Washington Post's decision to use a 'composite' photo on the front page of Friday's paper.

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