News Guardian's Meg Pickard leaving to start consultancy Pickard announced on her blog she is to leave role as head of digital engagement at the Guardian as she embarks on independent consulting By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News How researchers are using eye-tracking to discover iPad news engagement US journalism organisation Poynter shared further findings this week on its research, which included tracking how 36 users engaged with news product prototypes on an iPad By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News Guardian unveils 'work-in-progress' responsive beta site The Guardian has unveiled a beta version of its responsive site project, but emphasised it is a 'work-in-progress' By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News NewsCred acquires cloud publishing company Daylife Following the new acquisition, NewsCred 'will continue to invest in, support and enhance the current Daylife cloud publishing products under the NewsCred brand' By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News How Circa breaks down the news into 'atomic units' The news app, which launched this week, enables users to follow updates to certain stories which are broken down into 'facts, quotes, statistics, events and images' By Rachel McAthy • 5 min read
Credit: By Dmitry Baranovskiy on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Source launches as website for journalism code sharing The Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project launched Source this week, which will offer journalism coding features as well as a database of code and the community around it By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Daily Record suspends comments on football articles The Scottish newspaper website announced to readers on Friday it was suspending comments on football articles on the website By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Multimedia storytelling tool Meograph gets update The tool has been updated to enable stories which may include 'moments' which are not geo-specific to still be told using the multimedia platform By Rachel McAthy • 4 min read
Credit: Michael Bruntonspall on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Wolfgang Blau to join Guardian as director of digital strategy According to a press release Blau, who is currently chief editor of Zeit Online, will start in his new role as director of digital strategy in April next year By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News Kentishtowner uses Nesta funding to launch responsive site Online news site Kentishtowner has also launched an social enterprise Young Kentishtowner to provide 'mentoring in digital journalism and publishing' By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News Globe and Mail to launch metered paywall next week In a company video editor-in-chief John Stackhouse says the new model will enable the news outlet to 'put more resources into digital journalism, for the running of our website but also for the creation of original journalism' By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News The Global Mail redesign: Scrolling and content hierarchy The Australian non-profit news site unveiled its new design this week, which includes a new style homepage, navigation and its first mini-site dedicated to multimedia storytelling on a single topic By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
