Quotes of the week - News International, Spotify, Ultimo
Rebekah Brooks denies police payments knowledge, a marketing intermediary apologises to WPP and Spotify limits its free service...
"As can be seen from the transcript, I was responding to a specific line of questioning on how newspapers get information. My intention was simply to comment generally on the widely-held belief that payments had been made in the past to police officers. If, in doing so, I gave the impression that I had knowledge of any specific cases, I can assure you that this was not my intention."
News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks appears to row back on comments made to a select committee in 2003 as she denies knowing about any specific cases of journalists paying police for information.
"Our conduct in supporting these individuals, when we knew they worked at Everystone and The Brand Union, by contracting with them to provide services, introducing them to prospects and jointly pitching for business, was totally unacceptable."
Marketing intermediary Oystercatchers apologises "unreservedly" to advertising giant WPP for getting involved in a breakaway venture with staff who were still at the time employed by WPP agencies.
"We’ve shown that the model is doing extremely well, but as things stand we need to tweak the service to ensure everyone has access to legal music in the long term."
Spotify's chief content officer Ken Parks confirms that the service is cutting the amount of music that users can listen to for free, but doesn't explain why.
"It has been a pleasure and a privilege to lead the BBC's journalism in Scotland for the past four a half years. All will have their own views on how successful a period this has been. What I've tried to do is to improve our journalism in the stormy waters of making substantial savings from our budget."
Atholl Duncan, head of news for BBC Scotland, says his goodbyes after confirming that he is leaving the corporation to join accountancy body ICAS.
"If the case had ever come before a Judge, then the eventual and very public findings may have been far more costly to News International, so doing a deal is very tactically astute."
Media lawyer Steve Kuncewicz explains the thinking behind News International's dramatic phone-hacking apology.
"The move [to Primetime] from Khan and his team is commercial suicide. What has been done has probably killed Amir's credibility in the UK – certainly [with] our leading sports broadcaster."
Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn describes the promotion of this weekend's Amir Khan fight as "a shambles", because the light welterweight bout will now only be seen by around 10,000 hardy viewers on PPV channel Primetime instead of an audience of 700,000 on Sky.
"I think a lot of women are a bit fed up with seeing models with unrealistic body images that they can never achieve themselves."
Ultimo boss Michelle Mone explains why the bra brand has ditched size zero models for its new ad campaign.
"The word 'icon' can be overused – but not in this case. Gordon Burns is synonymous with regional broadcasting and viewers in the North West have adopted him as one of their own. He will be a hard act to follow."
David Holdsworth, controller for BBC English Regions, pays tribute to former Krypton Factor host Gordon Burns, who is leaving BBC North West Tonight after almost 15 years as its anchor.
“The prince went to Blackburn but drew the line at Burnley, no 6 finger handshakes from the dingles for Wills!”
Former cricketer Freddie Flintoff becomes the latest celebrity to rub people up the wrong way on Twitter.