Mashable lists 11 ‘tech trends for 2013’, analysing developing technologies which it says will play an increasingly central part in the future of modern media;

In a bid to save £7 million from its budget, Guardian News & Media reveals plans to cut 68 editorial posts;

After years of bad headlines for the news industry, The Economist claims that ‘things have started to look a bit less grim, particularly in America’, regarding newspaper circulation figures;

The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones has a special report on the social media revolution in China, including an in-depth look at the company Tencent – described as a ‘powerhouse’ in the country;

Pulitzer-winning foreign correspondent Paul Salopek is preparing a walk from Africa to South America, documenting his travels over the course of 7 years and 22,000 miles; 

Wide-ranging research has been completed into the trust and value readers across Europe place in their printed newspapers, says a report by INMA.

Major European media and advertising groups have been hit hard by the continuing economic downturn, with Lagardere posting a 17 percent slump in Lagardere Active, the magazines and radio division, in Q3, reports Reuters.

Editors of local papers in the UK have signaled their frustration at being treated the same as their badly behaved national counterparts, campaigning to retain self-regulation and rejecting statutory involvement, Greenslade explains in the Guardian.

A PR firm working on behalf of the Russian government has been found to be posting seemingly independent opinion columns praising the current administration, ProPublica reports. Pieces have appeared on CNBC’s website and the Huffington Post in the past two years connected to the public-relations firm ‘Ketchum’.