Mark Frankel, social media editor, BBC News, explains how the publisher's shortform, segmented content is raising brand awareness while also directing audiences to its website
Mohamed Belmaaza, data analyst, Les Echos, explains why it is key for news outlets to understand the shift in the way people consume news in order to efficiently produce live reports
Remember these suggestions next time you're reporting about disasters such as floods, tsunamis or earthquakes
A new project funded by the Knight Foundation aims to piggyback on the crypto-currency to create a 'permanent' public record
The first in a new series of half-day events will look at the issue of social media newsgathering and verification skills, tools and best practice
There is no way to cold-call your way to a strong network of online contacts
In an extract from his book 'Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters', Professor Alfred Hermida of the UBC Graduate School of Journalism discusses the emotional value of sharing online
The Lunchbox suite of customisable apps helps social media teams create or tweak images for sharing across networks
As virtual reality is making its way into newsrooms, here's a tutorial for experimenting with immersive storytelling
Alison Gow, digital innovations editor, Trinity Mirror Regionals
Knowing the date and time of an image upload can help make a story more accurate
The free event series called Hacks/Hackers Connect, developed in collaboration with the News Lab at Google, will offer support and mentoring
Frida Boisen, head of social media strategy at Sweden's Dagens Industri, discussed how she fostered more than 1.5m Facebook likes
More than just a chat messaging service, WhatsApp can enhance storytelling
Use these tags and plug-in to optimise news articles for Twitter and Facebook
At the Collision conference in Las Vegas, Twitter's Joel Lunenfeld spoke out about the Mayweather-Pacquino copyright controversy
A whistle-stop tour of Twitter's curation platform, offering publishers a new way to curate tweets around key events
John Esslin, a reporter at The Record in New Jersey used the story of the 'stolen Batmobile' as a cautionary tale for journalists who publish without first checking the facts
The latest Parse.ly authority report reveals how traffic from social networks can impact on an article's shelf life
Demos, the University of Sussex, and Ipsos MORI are building 'new research methods for social media'
We are organising courses in data journalism, iPhone reporting, open data for journalists and creating a buzz on social media
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
Al Jazeera's Riyaad Minty and Mark Little's Storyful on why news outlets must understand the relationship between news reporting and social media
The Guardian's US operation announces the launch of a new socially-driven aggregation series called #smarttakes
A conversation was sparked on the effect of social media sharing buttons by the designer Oliver Reichenstein on his blog informationArchitects
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
The Guardian's Alastair Dant shares the news outlet's approach to using interactivity to present data and stories to their audience
Bitly, the popular link shortener used by lots of news websites, announces its ‘bitmark’ service
Online noticeboard n0tice launches app to auto-post updates to Facebook
Muck Rack is a site that aggregates Twitter and social media feeds for thousands of professional journalists
'It's about building relationships on Facebook and monetizing outside', according to the Economist's global publisher, digital editions
Daily Mail and Telegraph stories get most Google +1 recommendations
'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
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.
Sky News emails staff telling them not to retweet - a round-up of opinion
A tool for tracking the sharing of news stories on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter
This new platform helps you monitor Facebook, Twitter, blogs and could become a favourite tool of data journalists
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
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New digital journal covering inflation and rate setting seeks a talented writer with experience as a financial journalist to use data to produce specialist content
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Personal trainer James Hilton has launched a podcast 'Jim's Gym - Inspiring Movement'. James, a specialist in biomechanics and injury recovery from the Cotswolds, runs Jim's Gym, a virtual online space supporting people over 55 to be more active
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