Olympic athletes are not the only ones making ambitions preparations for this summer’s games. The BBC outlined its plans for covering the Olympics in a statement yesterday, promising to provide 2,500 hours of live Olympic coverage, up from the 1,500 hours that the BBC produced at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

“We will be bringing live coverage of every Olympic Sport from every venue, both through a combination of BBC One and BBC Three and up to 24 simultaneous streams live online on PC, mobile, tablet or connected TV. These services will be complemented by coverage on Radio 5 live, mobile and tablet, while the majority of cable and satellite viewers will be able to access the 24 channels on their providers’ platform through the BBC Red Button,” said Roger Mosey, BBC director of London 2012.

Former News International CEO and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks is to be charged with three counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. The Guardian reports that Brooks is one of six individuals who will be charged over allegations that they tried to hide documents and computers from police officers who were investigating phone hacking.

The Huffington Post, CNN and Mediaite all reported on a Tweet sent from a account in the name of North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue, without realising that it was a spoof, reports Poynter. The article links to Poynter’s own advice on best practices for verifying information from social media.

Mathew Ingram argues in an article for GigaOm that Twitter is edging closer to becoming a media company, after it announced on Monday that it will be launching a weekly curated email, and released a job advert last week for the role of “sports producer.”

Publishers have spent a long time considering the financial implications of moving from print to digital. But there’s also another important question to consider: what is the environmental impact of the switch?

A new SFN report is being put together, which will examine this issue in detail. The project will present summaries of six studies into the environmental impact of different news channels, and will address difficulties in the ways that these impacts are measured.

Featuring tables, illustrations and graphs, the report will compare the carbon footprint generated by various means of publishing, and will also look into the environmental effect of business meetings at publishing companies. The project is being conducted in cooperation with WAN-IFRA’s Growing Green initiative, which promotes and investigates environmentally friendly publishing practices.

The report will be edited by Malin Picha, who worked as editor for various magazines and newspapers in Sweden, before becoming a project manager at the Swedish Media Publishers’ Association. After first researching the development of electronic paper and e-readers in Sweden, Picha later shifted her focus to more environmental projects. She is currently writing her licentiate thesis in media technology with focus on environmental impacts.

The Big Issue, a magazine founded to help the homeless, publishes its 1,000th issue today, reports Journalism.co.uk. The article quotes John Bird, one of the publication’s founders, who says that this milestone makes him feel “a mix of joy and discomfort, largely because we've achieved a lot, but we've still got more work to do."

Poynter provides some handy tips about using audio more effectively in multimedia stories. Among other things, the article advises journalists to use sound to provide extra detail for stories, and suggests that they use layers of audio to create a richer listening experience.

Nieman Lab’s Adrienne LaFrance compares the video games industry and the journalism industry – and looks at how the growth of the internet has disrupted both. LaFrance argues that he way that the games industry has adapted to the change has a lot to teach publishers.