Credit: Screenshot from BBC.co.uk News Behind the BBC's interactive 'The rise of the Islamic State' The interactive video, the first of its kind from the BBC, seeks to combine video, text and interactive graphics to tell the story of the militant group sweeping across Iraq and Syria By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
Credit: Screenshot from BBC.co.uk News How the BBC approaches longform, immersive storytelling Giles Wilson, features editor for BBC News Online, has commissioned a number of recent multimedia articles from the broadcaster, and shared his advice in making them work By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
News Screencast: How to extract data using import.io In the first a three-part series, import.io's Bea Schofield and Alex Gimson show how to extract data from websites using the free tool By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
Credit: Screenshot from Bellingcat.com News Brown Moses launches open-source investigations site Eliot Higgins, better known as Syria munitions blogger Brown Moses, today launches his new site Bellingcat to help investigative journalists using freely available information By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: By Anton S . on Flickr. Some rights reserved News BBC launches Facebook-first news service in Thailand Using the Facebook Notes feature as a CMS, World Service journalists hope to provide news 'without fear or favour' to a population in political turmoil By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
Credit: Image by Pierre Morel, courtesy of The Pixel Hunt News Re-building Haiti: using newsgames for complex issues The recently published interactive uses a mixture of longform journalism, multimedia and gaming elements to help readers understand the problems facing Haiti after the 2010 earthquake By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
News The '5 commandments' of Vine for viral videos Speaking at the FIPP Innovation forum in London, Don't Panic's creative director Richard Beer shared his lessons in using the microvideo platform for social shareable content By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Mark Hakansson News Announcing the agenda for the next news:rewired Sessions and workshops include: new forms of engagement, private social networks, collaboration, spreadsheet skills, building immersive stories and more By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock News NYTimes, WaPo and Mozilla building 'identity layer' for web In a new, open source project backed by a $3.9 million (£2.3 million) Knight Foundation grant, two of the biggest news organisations in the world hope to take engagement and personalisation to the next level By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
News Screencast: using Timeline.Js to make interactive timelines for stories Elements of multimedia and interactivity can help readers to better understand issues, and this free, open-source tool lets journalists create media-rich timelines to explore By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: By Sam Azgor on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Why the Oxford Mail is experimenting with WhatsApp The regional daily has received positive feedback for its WhatsApp service after experimenting with new ways to reach its audience more directly By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
Credit: By Ivy Dawned on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Verification tips for both the source and the content Experts in the field of verification shared their guidelines on verifying social media content at the World Editors Forum in Torino yesterday By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
