So this was it. The rumble in the jungle. Without a title fight since 2010, the undisputed TV debate champion was up against the great white hope of anti-politics, the man we always thought of as the No 1 cheeky chappie but who, we were horrified to learn, believes that no politician has in recent years “worked so many hours and had as little fun as me”.

Now that Facebook has all but taken over this world, it is turning its attention to creating new ones. On Tuesday night, the Silicon Valley firm announced its purchase of the virtual reality gaming company Oculus VR for $2bn (£1.2bn). Although Oculus’s signature virtual reality headset, Rift, is yet to be made available to consumers, it is already considered a hit thanks to a successful 2012 Kickstarter campaign and a buzzed-about demo at the recent SXSW festival.

Rupert Murdoch was so concerned about Rebekah Brooks' welfare during the period when News International closed the News of the World, that he personally called her PA to make sure she was being looked after and to ensure she wouldn't resign her post as chief executive, a jury at the Old Bailey has heard.

In the age of 24-hour broadcasting, a group of students is getting the best grounding possible – and they don't even need to stay up past their bedtimes to do it.

Tony Hall, the BBC Director General, today threw an arm around the arts establishment by offering new positions to grandees from the Tate gallery and the National Theatre in an attempt to safeguard the broadcaster’s reputation for producing high quality cultural programmes.

Just as BBC Newsnight reporter Duncan Weldon thought he had answered Conservative critics who claimed he might be a Labour Party stooge, Harriet Harman has sent him a public expression of “solidarity”.

There were no secret plans to remove boxes of Rebekah Brooks’ notebooks from News International’s archive and prevent them from falling into the hands of police investigating wrong-doing inside the News of the World, a jury at the Old Bailey has heard.

Peter Oakley, the “Internet Grandad” whose YouTube channel was once the most popular in the world, has died at the age of 86.

Before he co-founded LinkedIn – in fact, before he even worked in the technology sector – Allen Blue had a sense of the importance of communications networks and the competitive advantage they can bring.

Morgana Robinson is one of my favourite comedians and one of the most acerbic commentators on the inanity of most British popular television.

It’s a fair bet that no sooner had Eric Gill sculpted the finishing touches to the Broadcasting House façade a lifetime ago, than gossip began among the staff about the Corporation’s imminent demise due to inept decision-making by BBC bosses. But early in 1994, a particularly well-sourced rumour did the rounds at “BH”.