Credit: Image by MTA Long Island Rail Road on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Searching the social web during Hurricane Sandy: Challenges, lessons and reflections Social media and UGC experts from the Guardian US, Associated Press and Storyful discuss the challenges faced during Hurricane Sandy and the impact of the storm hitting 'one of the most media-savvy cities in the world' By Rachel McAthy • 7 min read
News How WorldStream offered 'video stream' during Sandy The WSJ had reporters 'filing from everywhere that was affected by the weather', with WorldStream offering a 'visual video stream of dispatches from all these affected areas coming in on a pretty constant, or near constant, basis' By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
Credit: Image by kodomut on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Newsquest newspapers launch Kindle Fire apps Replica copies of 10 Newsquest newspapers have been launched on the Kindle Fire tablet, as the publisher tests out demand on the platform By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
Credit: The Memo News Magazine The Memo aims to offer 'diversity of information' The magazine, which hopes to launch next year, has taken to Kickstarter to crowdfund for the quarterly magazine By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: Dreamer, via Wikimedia Commons News Telegraph launches metered paywall outside UK The Telegraph will offer users outside the UK 20 articles for free each month before payment will be required By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
Credit: Image by gagilas on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Hedon blog partners with paper to promote community news According to a post on the Hedon Blog, editor Ray Duffill will join the Holderness Gazette as a community correspondent By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: Image by kenteegardin on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News NRS: Telegraph is UK's most-read quality daily The latest figures from the National Readership Survey print and digital data report shows the Telegraph has a UK monthly readership of 9.23m across print and online By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News BBC Trust committee upholds Twitter headline complaint The complaint related to a shorter version of a headline sent out on platforms including Twitter by the BBC, which the committee agreed 'did not reflect with due accuracy the story to which it was linked' By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
Credit: Financial Times on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Pearson: FT digital subscriptions 'growing strongly' A nine-month interim management statement from Pearson, parent group of the Financial Times, shows a year-on-year increase of 17 per cent in digital subs By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News Mapping tool CartoDB to launch new features The open source software, produced by Vizzuality, has been used by news outlets such as the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal to make map visualisations By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
Credit: Image by mozillaeu on Flickr. Creative commons licence. Some rights reserved News Tips for journalism hack day success A collection of tips and reflections from those with experience of running hack day events for news-related projects By Rachel McAthy • 10 min read
Credit: Image by ilouque on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Two Trinity Mirror regional sites launch daily liveblogs As part of an experiment by Trinity Mirror regionals to place a 'new emphasis on breaking news' the group has launched daily liveblogs on the homepages of two regional news websites By Rachel McAthy • 4 min read
