Credit: Courtesy Kapang TV News New platform Kapang TV brings hyperlocal content to 400 UK towns and cities The local media service will be delivered to British homes via broadband and will offer bespoke local advertising in a bid to become financially sustainable By Marcela Kunova • 2 min read
Credit: Bruce Mewett from Pixabay News How I gained three anchor clients in my first month freelancing A freelance journalist advises how to keep your business afloat in the choppy waters of self-employment By Abigail Edge • 4 min read
News Tool for journalists: Subly, for adding captions to video content on social media This new online tool aims to speed up the transcription process for online video to just a matter of minutes By Daniel Green • 3 min read
Credit: TLDR News News YouTube channel TLDR News engages Gen Z through explainer content and impartial views In only two years, the channel has amassed 350k subscribers by producing factual stories that help the under-35s make sense of the politics By Daniel Green • 4 min read
Credit: Sports Media LGBT+ News How to report LGBT+ stories with confidence A new resources pack from Sports Media LGBT+ offers a guideline to inclusion in sports and the wider media industry By Jon Holmes • 5 min read
Credit: Photo by Philip Veater on Unsplash News 19 UK news organisations to receive government funding following Cairncross Review As the £2m taxpayer-funded scheme aims to help public service journalism find sustainable business models, we look at how some of the grantees plan to spend the cash By Jacob Granger • 5 min read
Credit: Callum Shaw on Unsplash News How to make news more engaging for younger audiences With the under-35s spending less than eight minutes a week reading news, the media need to rethink the news agendas, change tone of voice and reinvent story formats to win them back By Melissa Spence • 2 min read
News Bangladeshi reporters now have a mobile journalism guide written in their mother tongue To end the era of poorly-translated foreign manuals, this new book by the mobile specialist Jamil Khan teaches local students and citizen journalists to use a smartphone for field reporting By Jacob Granger • 2 min read
Credit: Pixabay News US nonprofit The 19th wants to report on women and policies from a gender viewpoint As men still account for two-thirds of news coverage in the US, this media startup is shaking up its hiring practices to cover under-reported stories and bring women journalists to the fore By Daniel Green • 3 min read
News Daniell Morrisey: How to prepare a killer CV A career coach and head of talent for BBC shows talks about what makes a CV stand out to potential employers By Daniel Green • 6 min read
News What role will branded content play in the future of news? When media organisations and commercial companies work together on stories, it can put experts in the spotlight and offer a new source of revenue - but readers have a right to be wary By Daniel Green • 2 min read
Credit: Neil Perry, Archant. Screenshot from Prince of Wales Road: On patrol with police at Halloween News Archant embraces mobile journalism to cover local news stories Journalists are trained to shoot lots of simple smartphone footage when reporting out in the field to get their stories online faster and attract more viewers when interest is at its peak By Jacob Granger • 2 min read
