Quotes of the week - Rupert Murdoch, Piers Morgan, David Cameron

News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch's opening gambit as he faced questions from MPs over the phone-hacking scandal. He was later attacked by a man carrying a plate full of shaving foam.

"With 20/20 hindsight and all that has followed I wouldn't have offered him the job and I expect that he wouldn't have taken it."

For the first time Prime Minister David Cameron admits hiring former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his communications chief was a mistake.

“I've never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, or published any stories based on the hacking of a phone.”

Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan hits back at MP Louise Mensch, who used parliamentary privilege to claim that Morgan had hinted at the use of phone-hacking in his autobiography The Insider.

"The Cannes Lions rules state clearly that if requested, proof must be provided that campaigns ran and were legitimately created for a fee-paying client. Despite many conversations, Moma Propaganda have not provided the proof we require and therefore the Lions have been withdrawn.”

Philip Thomas, CEO of the Cannes Lions advertising awards, revokes Moma Propaganda's gongs and bans the agency from entering next year.

“These have been the darkest and longest days of our professional lives, but we had to explore all of the options available to us having spent so many years building up the business and working with so many talented people. We have owned The Market Social Ltd for some time and took the decision to buy back the rights to retain The Market Creative brand after much deliberation. Given that there is so much equity in the name we feel that this is the best way forward for the new business. We will continue to focus on retail marketing, but the offer will be broader with the addition of social shopping."

Sue Benson, managing director of The Market Creative, reveals that the Manchester agency is relaunching just weeks after it was forced to close.

"Being based in Salford Quays also gives us the opportunity to work with local agencies and recruit from creative talent pools to ensure we have the best and most creative workforce and helps us deliver our commitment to the North of England to build and develop a workforce in Salford that is among the best trained and most flexible in the media."

Simon Lloyd, the BBC's director of media engagement and marketing & audiences, sets out the ambitions for the corporation's marketing team as it moves from London to Salford Quays.

"These decisions have not been taken lightly but are vital if we are to maintain the momentum of our business."

Mark Wood, chief executive of the Bath-based publisher Future, tells staff why eight of the company's publications will either be closed or sold.

"How can we continue to attract and keep the people we need to get the news stories that keep this country free? It’s a scandal.”

South Yorkshire Times editor, Jim Oldfield, tells a National Union of Journalists meeting that he is paid just £25,500 despite having served 37 years in the industry.