News Video site expands freelance team for new football coverage 'Street-level' video project Winkball has plans to add up to 80 new recruits to produce interviews with football fans for its online video wall By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Thomson Reuters wins two nominations for online documentary awards Multimedia stories covering the Lehman Brothers collapse and 2004 Tsunami will compete with seven other journalism projects from France and Italy By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News Trinity Mirror forges hyperlocal partnerships with new community news sites Newspaper group launches 'Birmingham Mail Communities' with local bloggers and independent websites By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Social networks rivalling newspaper sites for breaking news, survey suggests Social networking sites are rivalling leading national newspaper websites as a source of breaking news and information for UK users By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News Beaverbrook Foundation launches journalism scholarships fund Lord Beaverbrook's foundation has created an annual £250,000 fund for young journalists training in the UK By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Newspaper sites among early adopters of new Twitter button Twitter says 30 sites have implemented the new button and 16 of these launch sites, including Sky News blogs, Huffington Post, USA Today and several regional US newspapers By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News New FT metric shows half a million paying users daily New Print and Digital Paid-for Circulation metric records an average of 563,026 paying users worldwide between 31 May and 4 July By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Media Trust calls for professionals to volunteer for mentoring scheme The Trust hopes its Digital Volunteer Recruitment Campaign will bring together media professionals, charities and community groups By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News US Hacks/Hackers network forms London branch The London branch, which claims to be the first international chapter of Hacks/Hackers, will incorporate the Ruby in the Pub meetings By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News BBC Arabic radio suspended by Sudanese government BBC World Service informed that BBC Arabic had been discontinued as of 9 August in Khartoum, Port Sudan, Wad Madani and Al-Ubayad By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News Journalism the third most untrustworthy profession, according to poll A poll of 3,000 UK adults put journalists behind only politicians and bankers on trusted professions By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News BBC news site will double external linking by 2013, says Erik Huggers Link plans part of broadcaster's Putting Quality First strategy, and have been initially endorsed by the BBC Trust By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
