Credit: By Kevin Dooley News How can Periscope's latest updates help reporters with newsgathering? The live broadcasting app has been updated and now includes a global map and a skip ahead feature for replayed material By Caroline Scott • 4 min read
Credit: Image from Thinkstock News Quartz to open source two mapping tools The project aims to help journalists quickly access map data from around the world By Caroline Scott • 2 min read
Credit: By Julo (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons News How Solomon Dashboard wants to help reporters work with data about their local patch Customise this open-source web application to access complex open data in your area By Caroline Scott • 2 min read
Credit: Image: Justgrimes News From data crunching to storytelling: Lessons from six months of Urbs.London Gary Rogers, editor-in-chief, explains how the website aimed to 'reinvent city news' using only open data By Caroline Scott • 6 min read
Credit: Image by gagilas on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Open source tool Pilgrim wants to help journalists 'find the unknown' The collaborative research platform will allow its users to collect data and materials from multiple sources By Caroline Scott • 1 min read
Credit: Image by Michael Coghlan on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Journalism behind bars: Vice and Al Jazeera advocating for freedom of the press Reporters who have been wrongfully imprisoned in the past discuss the need for a greater protection of journalists covering news abroad By Caroline Scott • 5 min read
Credit: Image courtesy of Erin Sparling News Creation and curation: Building newsroom tools at Dow Jones The company's developers work with the journalists and editors to meet the "ever changing needs of news", said head of newsroom development, Erin Sparling By Caroline Scott • 1 min read
News 'Being a generalist will not get you as far as having a niche' – Q&A with Susan Grossman Coach, media mentor and freelance journalist Susan Grossman tells us about her job, and why it is important to have a niche when starting out in the industry By Caroline Scott • 1 min read
Credit: Image by Images_of_money on Flickr. Some rights reserved News How news outlet The Canary aims to 'diversify media' The new platform will pay 50 per cent of its profits to writers, a model based on the traffic each individual story brings to the site By Caroline Scott • 2 min read
Credit: Journalism.co.uk News Highlights from the first news:rewired 'in focus' A Storify of tweets and videos from the news:rewired 'in focus' journalism conference, held at Reuters in London, on 21 October By Caroline Scott • 1 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock News ‘Talk to people about your story’: Burns survivor help victims with journalism Student journalist Lucy Wilson wants to combat public stigma surrounding impairments and disabilities through the power of feature writing By Caroline Scott • 1 min read
News 'Don't become an armchair journalist' – Q&A with Ryan Bassil Noisey's Ryan Bassil tells us why it is important for aspiring journalists to have their own voice and focus on work experience By Caroline Scott • 2 min read
