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Social list building tool Listly launches new version

Journalists can use Listly to build lists with the community and offers social features such as item-specific commenting and a voting system to drive engagement

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 18/03/13

Facebook's Vadim Lavrusik to deliver news:rewired keynote

Facebook's journalism programme manager will give a practical presentation at the digital journalism conference on 19 April

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 05/03/13

Tool of the week for journalists: TweetDeck - for its new column filter

TweetDeck has added column search functionality to its web and Chrome apps

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 22/02/13

FT launches anniversary Tumblr to tell 'inside story'

The Financial Times has produced an "anniversary hub" of digital content online, including a Tumblr of staff memories and an interactive timeline of historical events

Posted by Rachel McAthy on 13/02/13

WSJ uses Vine to report on New York Fashion Week

Social media ideas and innovations: Another example of how Twitter's new micro-video app is being used by reporters

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 08/02/13

App of the week for journalists: Neatly, for tidying your Twitter timeline into topics

A Twitter client that organises your Twitter timeline into topics

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 06/02/13

Visual Revenue launches social dashboard

The tools give recommendations to social media editors on when a post will best resonate with, and engage, the audience

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 05/02/13

Tool of the week for journalists: Engagio, for managing social via Gmail

Engagio allows you to track conversations you are having on social networks, including Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, from your Gmail inbox

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 24/01/13

Washington Post launches social trending feature

The Post Pulse feature gives 15 minute updates on the latest stories receiving 'the most traction' on social media

Posted by Rachel McAthy on 21/01/13

What Facebook's new search function means for journalists

Tips on searching Facebook while waiting for the reporter's 'rolodex of 1 billion potential sources' to be rolled out

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 16/01/13

Unmissab.ly to surface top stories from social feeds

The platform will create a "live feed" for users of news stories based on those shared by their social network

Posted by Rachel McAthy on 19/12/12

Top 10 Facebook news stories of 2012

A list of the most shared, commented and 'liked' news stories of 2012 published by UK news outlets BBC News, Mail Online, Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, the Sun, the Mirror

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 18/12/12

Guardian changes Facebook app to send users to news site

The Guardian has announced a 'shift in focus' with users to now be directed to the Guardian website when clicking on content, rather than viewing it within Facebook

Posted by Rachel McAthy on 14/12/12

Eight Google+ tools for journalists

A journalist's guide to Google+: A list including some of the newer features you might not know about

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 12/12/12

Al Jazeera reporter in Gaza answers questions on Reddit

Almost 2,000 comments were posted during a Reddit discussion in which Nadim Baba, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza, answered audience questions

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 19/11/12

How to: search social media for stories

A journalist's guide to searching Twitter, Facebook, and more

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 16/11/12

How Boston Globe's Instagram wall feeds its journalism

The Boston Globe has a wall showing every Instagram picture posted locally and is using it as a source of stories

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 13/11/12

BBC Trust committee upholds Twitter headline complaint

The complaint related to a shorter version of a headline sent out on platforms including Twitter by the BBC, which the committee agreed 'did not reflect with due accuracy the story to which it was linked'

Posted by Rachel McAthy on 30/10/12

Study: Mail Online gets 2m Pinterest shares

Daily Mail website gathers 2 million 'pins' on Pinterest, with the Guardian getting the greatest number of shares for a single article on the visual bookmarking platform

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 16/10/12

NewsWhip Spike adds real-time trending search

Users for powerful news monitoring tool NewsWhip Spike can now search for topics and see which articles on the subject are gaining the most attention on social media

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 04/10/12

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Five key courses for journalists in September

We are organising courses in data journalism, iPhone reporting, open data for journalists and creating a buzz on social media

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 31 July 2013

Beet.TV: The New York Times, real-time advertising and Twitter trending data

Beet.TV has an interesting video with Michael Zimbalist, vice president for research & development, and operations at the New York Times, in which he discusses a new advertising tool called Spark which utilises the Times’s data on stories trending on social media. According to Beet.TV the tool “serves display advertising into stories as they are [...]

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 February 2013

Hurricane Sandy and verification: 4 key takeaways from Storyful Hangout

A look at the four main points which came out of a Google+ Hangout, hosted by Storyful on the subject of verification during Hurricane Sandy

Posted by Rob Grant on 11 December 2012

Study: Fewer UK journalists feel social media improves productivity in 2012 than in 2011

An annual study into how UK journalists feel social media impacts on their work was announced this week by Canterbury Christ Church University and public relations and media services outlet Cision. The report’s findings are based on 769 responses from UK journalists. According to a release from the university the study found an “increasing number [...]

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 September 2012

#wef12: Why news outlets must embrace a participatory culture

Al Jazeera's Riyaad Minty and Mark Little's Storyful on why news outlets must understand the relationship between news reporting and social media

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 4 September 2012

Guardian US, #smarttakes and 'pop-up aggregation'

The Guardian's US operation announces the launch of a new socially-driven aggregation series called #smarttakes

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 July 2012

How important are 'tweet' and 'like' buttons to news publishers?

A conversation was sparked on the effect of social media sharing buttons by the designer Oliver Reichenstein on his blog informationArchitects

Posted by Daniel Bentley on 1 June 2012

Online news startups need help converting readers into supporters

A report by J-Lab has found that even though online news start-ups have access to a wide range of social media tools, they struggle with how to measure their impact

Posted by Daniel Bentley on 31 May 2012

#GEN2012: Interactive graphics case studies from the Guardian

The Guardian's Alastair Dant shares the news outlet's approach to using interactivity to present data and stories to their audience

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 30 May 2012

Bitly launches 'bitmark' social bookmarking service

Bitly, the popular link shortener used by lots of news websites, announces its ‘bitmark’ service

Posted by Daniel Bentley on 29 May 2012

Guardian's n0tice launches Facebook sharing app

Online noticeboard n0tice launches app to auto-post updates to Facebook

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 1 May 2012

Tool of the week for journalists: Muck Rack

Muck Rack is a site that aggregates Twitter and social media feeds for thousands of professional journalists

Posted by James Chapple on 5 April 2012

Economist seeks to build relationships with 1m Facebook fans

'It's about building relationships on Facebook and monetizing outside', according to the Economist's global publisher, digital editions

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 29 March 2012

Searchmetrics: Financial Times is news outlet with most Google+ followers

Daily Mail and Telegraph stories get most Google +1 recommendations

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 22 March 2012

Social predicted to overtake search as Guardian traffic driver

'It's only a matter of time until social overtakes search for the Guardian,' says Tanya Cordrey, director of digital development at Guardian News and Media

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 21 March 2012

Digital news editor @fieldproducer leaving Sky News

Sky News's digital news editor Neal Mann, known to 43,000 people on Twitter as @fieldproducer, has announced he has decided to leave the broadcaster.

Posted by Paul McNally on 19 March 2012

Sky News Twitter restrictions - where do you stand?

Sky News emails staff telling them not to retweet - a round-up of opinion

Posted by Paul McNally on 8 February 2012

Tool of the week for journalists - Rippla, for tracking the social 'ripples' of news stories

A tool for tracking the sharing of news stories on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 20 December 2011

Tool of the week for journalists - Playground, to monitor social media analytics

This new platform helps you monitor Facebook, Twitter, blogs and could become a favourite tool of data journalists

Posted by Marianne Bouchart on 29 November 2011

Rippla, a site to monitor the social media 'ripples' of news stories, launches

You can now see how stories from the UK's top 10 news sites are shared on social media – and view the social media 'ripples' created by stories on your own news site

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 17 November 2011

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