The fortunes of the British royal family are inevitably engulfed by a flurry of news reports, gossip columns and speculation, but as the first major royal born in the new media age the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s baby received unprecedented amounts of press coverage from around the world. Yet in the rush to be first to report on the latest developments, some news organisations forgot that sometimes less is more. 

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Despite perceptions that “Twitter is the newswire now,” as Mathew Ingram declared in 2011, a new study showed that newswires tend to break stories before Twitter, though the micro-blogging site covers events news outlets neglect.

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Having introduced Poke as a rival to Snapchat and Instagram's new video service to take on Vine, as well as rolling out its own brand of Twitter-inspired hashtags, Facebook is reportedly now set to offer a challenge to Flipboard and Pulse with a news aggregation app for smartphones and tablets.

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In a world in which social exchanges are increasingly carried out online, via the impersonal channels of “social” media sites, the launch of website trocdepresse.com seems like a rather outdated venture. That's because it focuses on developing face-to-face social links between individuals by encouraging them to exchange their copies of newspapers and magazines with one another.

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