September - March 

Week 1:Weekly New/Digital Media (1)   : Facebook and Twitter join coalition to improve social media newsgathering
             Weekly New/Digital Media (2)   : Instagram unveils tool to allow users to filter abusive comments
Week 2:Weekly New/Digital Media (3)   : WhatsApp threatened with legal action over Facebook data sharing deal
             Weekly New/Digital Media (4)   : Request shows and rehabilitation: How prison radio changes the lives of inmates
Week 3:Weekly New/Digital Media (5)   : Daily Mail publisher turns to price rise to counter advertising slump
             Weekly New/Digital Media (6)   : Are mobiles changing how we shop?
Week 4:Weekly New/Digital Media (7)   : Pixel is a direct challenge to Apple – and a referendum on Google 
             Weekly New/Digital Media (8)   : Yahoo email surveillance: who approved the secret scanning program?
Week 5:Weekly New/Digital Media (9)   : I'm with you on the digital revolution, it's the lack of journalism I can't face
             Weekly New/Digital Media (10) : TV advertising exceeds £5bn for first time
Week 6:Weekly New/Digital Media (11) : Donald Trump as president 'would be a threat to press freedom'
             Weekly New/Digital Media (12) : Spotify UK revenues surge to almost £190m as mobile subscriptions take off
Week 7:Weekly New/Digital Media (13) : Why do we still accept that governments collect and snoop on our data?
             Weekly New/Digital Media (14) : BBC iPlayer users will have to use personal logins from early 2017
Week 8:  Weekly New/Digital Media (15): Ofcom dismisses every complaint of bias against Jeremy Corbyn about UK broadcasters
                Weekly New/Digital Media (16): Cross-media ownership: Xenophon bloc likely to support scrapping diversity rules
Week 9:Weekly New/Digital Media (17): Make Google and Facebook pay for public service reporting
              Weekly New/Digital Media (18): A print publishing reality: advertisers, not readers, are the customers
Week 10:Weekly New/Digital Media (19): Mark Zuckerberg rejects 'crazy idea' Facebook influenced US election result
                Weekly New/Digital Media (20): Twitter announces more tools for dealing with abuse
Week 11:Weekly New/Digital Media (21): Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook will fix 'fake news' problem but will not verify stories itself
                Weekly New/Digital Media (22): Instagram is changing from photo-sharing app to shopping catalogue in your pocket
Week 12:Weekly New/Digital Media (23): Reddit CEO admits he edited Trump supporters' comments on social network
                Weekly New/Digital Media (24): Tens of thousands sign petition urging Parliament to recall 'most extreme spying powers ever'
Week 13:Weekly New/Digital Media (25): Google 'must review its search rankings because of rightwing manipulation'
                Weekly New/Digital Media (26): Facebook reportedly testing new tool to combat fake news
Week 14:Weekly New/Digital Media (27): Uber employees 'spied on ex-partners, politicians and Beyoncé'
                Weekly New/Digital Media (28): Twitter U-turns over banning white nationalist
Week 15:Weekly New/Digital Media (29): Mark Zuckerberg appears to finally admit Facebook is a media company
                Weekly New/Digital Media (30): Why is Mail Online going after the fact checkers?
Week 16:Weekly New/Digital Media (31): Music streaming hailed as industry's saviour as labels enjoy profit surge  
                Weekly New/Digital Media (32): FBI and Homeland Security detail Russian hacking campaign in new report
Week 17:Weekly New/Digital Media (33): Is Mark Zuckerberg preparing to enter politics? Facebook CEO fuels rumours with 2017 challenge to tour every US state
                Weekly New/Digital Media (34): Twitter's controversial head of China leaves after eight months 
Week 18:Weekly New/Digital Media (35): WhatsApp, Facebook and Google face tough new privacy rules under EC proposal
                Weekly New/Digital Media (36): Your private medical data is for sale – and it's driving a business worth billions
Week 19:Weekly New/Digital Media (37): Facebook to roll out fake news tools in Germany
                Weekly New/Digital Media (38):WhatsApp vulnerability explained: by the man who discovered it
Week 20:Weekly New/Digital Media (39): Ohio mother who taped son to wall on Facebook Live faces charges
               Weekly New/Digital Media (40): Civil rights groups urge Facebook to fix 'racially biased' moderation system
Week 21:Weekly New/Digital Media (41): #DeleteUber: how social media turned on Uber
                Weekly New/Digital Media (42): Amazon pledges legal support to action against Trump travel ban
Week 22:Weekly New/Digital Media (43): Skills shortage 'harming UK's ability to protect itself from cyber-attacks'
                Weekly New/Digital Media (44): Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft file opposition to Trump's travel ban
Week 23:Weekly New/Digital Media (45): WhatsApp improves message security with two-step verification
                 Weekly New/Digital Media (46): Fake news is 'killing people's minds', says Apple boss Tim Cook
Week 24:Weekly New/Digital Media (47): Facebook clones Snapchat again with WhatsApp Status and Direct Photos 
                Weekly New/Digital Media (48): Google and Bing to deprecate piracy websites
Week 25:Weekly New/Digital Media (49): Fox News Anchor Stands Up For CNN And Defines ‘Fake News’
                Weekly New/Digital Media (50): Trump’s War On The Media Echoes 2009. But The Press May Find It Harder To Fight.
Week 26:Weekly New/Digital Media (51): Tinder bans man for life for sending woman racist message
                Weekly New/Digital Media (52): Watchdog to launch inquiry into misuse of data in politics

Week 27:Weekly New/Digital Media (53):  Tim Berners-Lee calls for tighter regulation of online political advertising
                Weekly New/Digital Media (54): Windows 10 users complain about intrusive new OneDrive adverts
Week 28:Weekly New/Digital Media (55): Head of Google Europe apologises over ads on extremist content
Weekly New/Digital Media (56): Spotify to restrict some music to paying subscribers only
Week 29:Weekly New/Digital Media (57): Instagram introduces two-factor authentication
Weekly New/Digital Media (58): Snapchat 'will be bigger than Twitter, Yahoo and AOL with advertisers'
Week 30:Weekly New/Digital Media (59): Amber Rudd's 'showdown' talks with tech firms on extremism are pure PR
Weekly New/Digital Media (60): Here's how to protect your internet browsing data now that it's for sale
Week 31: Weekly New/Digital Media (61): US government drops effort to unmask anti-Trump Twitter account
Weekly New/Digital Media (62): Apple launches Clips as it bids for a slice of the Snapchat action
Week 32: Weekly New/Digital Media (63): Facebook killing video puts moderation policies under the microscope, again
Weekly New/Digital Media (64): Facebook's key to building communities in divided times: augmented reality
Week 33:Weekly New/Digital Media (65): Facebook has 60 people working on how to read your mind
Weekly New/Digital Media (66): Teenage hackers motivated by morality not money, study finds
Week 34:Weekly New/Digital Media (67):  How Much Would Facebook Be Worth Today If It Hadn't Bought Instagram?
Weekly New/Digital Media (68): Facebook and Google were conned out of $100m in phishing scheme 
Week 35: Weekly New/Digital Media (69): Facebook employs ex-political aides to help campaigns target voters
Weekly New/Digital Media (70): Facebook shares dip from high as investors fret over costs, future profit
Week 36: Weekly New/Digital Media (71): Facebook facing privacy actions across Europe as France fines firm €150k
Weekly New/Digital Media (72): Instagram Is Introducing Its Biggest (Most Snapchat-y) Feature Yet

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