Twitter tips for journalists covering the UK general election from WSJ's social media editor EMEA Sarah Marshall
The Beeb issues new staff guidance for user-generated content, chat apps and new social media platforms
A list of resources for regional and hyperlocal reporters keeping watch over a local patch, also useful for tracking breaking news in a specific location
Pinterest's head of international Matt Crystal shared his advice for journalists and publishers at the Digital Innovators' Summit in Berlin yesterday
Automatically grab images from links before tweeting with this nifty app for iOS and web
Storyful's Joe Galvin and social media expert Sue Llewellyn share lessons learned from their own Google+ Communities, successful or not
How can journalists at the scene of something like a police stand-off report the incident live on social media without jeopardising anyone's safety?
Wright Bryan of NPR's Social Media Desk shares six ways to super-charge engagement on Twitter
Advice for covering breaking stories on live blogs and social media from the BBC's Mark Frankel and Reported.ly's Malachy Browne
With female journalists more likely than men to be on the receiving end of online harassment, three women discuss their experience of abuse and how they handled it
New site 3nz.it, launched in October, has quickly generated a large audience while allowing the publisher to experiment with new ideas
At the News Xchange conference in Prague, experts in eyewitness media from GuardianWitness, CNN and Storyful discussed advice for newsrooms managing user generated content around breaking news events
Malachy Browne, news editor at the social newswire, shares some advice for monitoring and verifying news from social media
A useful guide for the automated monitoring of Twitter accounts
The social newswire recently relaunched its dashboard aimed at helping journalists discover multimedia, stories, updates and tweets around news
What content works well on social media? What motivates people to share? In this week's podcast we look at how publishers are tapping into people's emotions and engaging online audiences in new ways.
Five ways the social media analytics tool can help you better understand your audience
Central data journalism unit used raw data from Commonwealth War Graves Commission to help local newspaper readers find out more about the war-dead from their area
BuzzFeed UK editor Luke Lewis shared his tips and advice for effective use of social networks as part of news:rewired last week
The regional daily has received positive feedback for its WhatsApp service after experimenting with new ways to reach its audience more directly
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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