Credit: By Dmitry Kaminsky on Shutterstock. News How to create interactive maps with MapHub This free mapping tool allows you to easily illustrate and draw routes between points of interest By Mădălina Ciobanu • 4 min read
Credit: By Roberts Photography on Shutterstock News Discourse Media uses solutions journalism to 'track the slow burn of change' The Canadian media company produces in-depth multimedia reporting both independently and in partnership with other news outlets By Mădălina Ciobanu • 4 min read
Credit: By MichaelaS on Shutterstock News Are drones a new avenue for data journalism? News organisations can use drones to generate data for stories, not just for aerial visuals By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
Credit: Screenshot from 6x9. Image courtesy of the Guardian. News The Guardian's first VR project lets viewers experience solitary confinement The virtual reality piece called 6x9 launched today through a prototype VR app for iOS and Android By Mădălina Ciobanu • 4 min read
Credit: Screenshot from the Quartz iPhone app. News ‘Question your assumptions’: Tips from Quartz on preparing for what comes next in digital ‘Mobile is growing and changing quicker than anything that came before, so I think pretty much all predictions about the future are going to be incorrect’ By Mădălina Ciobanu • 2 min read
Credit: Image by underverse on Shutterstock News Don’t just shut the door: What publishers can do to combat ad-blocking The New York Times, Bild and Verdens Gang explained the measures they’ve implemented to deal with the rise of ad-blockers at Digital Media Europe in Vienna today By Mădălina Ciobanu • 4 min read
Credit: Image by Looker_Studios on Shutterstock. News Is curation the way forward? A Swiss media group's take on getting people to pay for regional news Swiss media company Tamedia is hand-picking 12 stories a day, seven days a week from across its 21 titles in a new app called Zwölf By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
Credit: by Gil C on Shutterstock News How Spain’s El País is responding to digital transformation ‘We thought that because we survived the first wave of change, we were safe, but that’s not true. It’s that sense of comfort that worries me’ By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
Credit: By vlad09 on Shutterstock News NPR's visuals team is using an analytics bot to measure if people care about stories 'We'd been playing around with alternative metrics for longer than one and a half years and this idea came out of our questioning of what our mission is, why have a visuals team at a radio organisation?' By Mădălina Ciobanu • 5 min read
Credit: Image from Pixabay.com News Why journalists should be more involved in product development in the newsroom In newsrooms, a product manager can be the 'connective tissue' between the editorial and commercial side of the business By Mădălina Ciobanu • 2 min read
Credit: Screenshot of CNN's Facebook Messenger bot News 'We curate, you query': Inside CNN's new Facebook Messenger chat bot Chatting with a bot is still a long way from becoming a personalised reading experience By Mădălina Ciobanu • 4 min read
News 'Can I use your picture?': Copyright advice for working with eyewitness media fairly from #IJF16 'The question shouldn't be "is this your video?" It should be "did you take this video?"' By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
