George Entwistle, currently Director of BBC Vision, was appointed today as the new Director-General of the BBC, reports the BBC. Read Entwistle’s memo to staff.

British Community Secretary Eric Pickles has threatened to outlaw local newspapers operated by local authorities, reports Press Gazette.

Twitter, which released its first transparency report on Monday (accessible via Mashable) faces the same dilemma as The New York Times, argues Mathew Ingram for Gigaom: to what extent should it be a platform, and to what extent a destination?

Ken Doctor writes for Nieman Lab on the “tablet aggregator wars” between Pulse and Flipboard, and "moving beyond Paywalls 1.0 to a more nuanced world of digital circulation.”

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