What were the most popular stories on Twitter last year?
The Financial Times's communities editor, Sarah Laitner, shares her top ten tips for Twitter as @FT reaches 1m followers
The website will publish work from a network of investigative bloggers and detail tools and techniques for investigating issues using 'open-source information'
The interview will be carried out by a Channel 4 News presenter, but the questions will be solely derived from online audiences using social media
Introduction of newsfeed adds to site redesign and mobile-first strategy that has seen a 161 per cent rise in traffic year-on-year
We look at how two broadcasters covered the news of Nelson Mandela's death on social media, and the considerations behind their approaches
How Sweden's public service radio network approaches social
Images taken by CNN journalists showing 'scenes from the field' will be shared via the platform, to engage with their community beyond traditional reporting
The recipe for success as @BBCBreaking nears 8m followers
The collections feature an index of staff Twitter accounts, for The Times and Sunday Times, with users able to filter results based on the reporter's area of expertise
Examples of video ideal for sharing on Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms, and for viewing on a mobile phone
The new department will power '24/7' social media activity, and consist of half a dozen social managers and a new social editor
A look at some of the considerations by Channel 4 and the BBC when sharing updates on big breaking news events, such as the recent typhoon in the Philippines
A report by Cision and Canterbury Christ Church University, based on 589 UK reporters, also found that 40 per cent could not do their job without social media
Using a wifi-connected switch, IFTTT and a Twitter RSS feed
BBC Trending will report on social media stories from around the world using in-tweet video, the BBC magazine news site and radio
A panel of social media experts from ITV News, Channel 4 News and the BBC discuss some of the key considerations for journalists working on social media platforms
The newly-updated iOS app provides a 'second screen' for US viewers to interact with the live TV show and online community of Al Jazeera's The Stream
A look at how audiences arrive at news sites, including advice from Zach Seward, senior editor of 'side door' site Quartz, which focuses on traffic from social
By expanding Graph Search to public status updates, comments and photo captions, Facebook has opened up new sources and methods by which journalists can use the social network
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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