News #Rio2016: 7 data stories and interactives from the first week of the Olympic Games How are news outlets making the most of the abundance of data available about the Olympics? By Catalina Albeanu • 4 min read
News How Google's Digital News Initiative is evolving 'A lot of the problems people are trying to solve in the news ecosystem are common across organisations and borders, so we encourage people to be collaborative' By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
News Inside the Financial Times' special projects strategy, six months on Robin Kwong, the FT's special projects editor, shares an insight into his collaborative work with the newsroom to develop more ambitious editorial initiatives By Mădălina Ciobanu • 4 min read
Credit: Photo by image-catalog on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News The newly launched ShoutOut Network is using podcasts to improve media diversity The network produces diversity-focused podcasts about literature, music and arts, tailored for young people in the UK By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
News Readers perceive question-based headlines more negatively, study shows The report by the Engaging News Project investigated the influence of click bait headlines on readers' expectations of the news story that would follow By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
News Mobile journalism skills help schoolchildren contribute to community news site Cardiff University's Centre for Community Journalism is teaching youngsters the art of storytelling through mobile journalism techniques, enabling them to challenge issues in their area By Caroline Scott • 2 min read
News How to use Live:Air Solo for more control over your Facebook Live streams The free app allows users to broadcast in 16:9, add lower thirds and introduce pre-recorded footage By Caroline Scott • 3 min read
News Fox News is winning the US presidential election on Facebook... thanks to Clinton and Obama Fox News generated 35 per cent of total Facebook interactions on posts about the US election, reveals data analysis of 63 Facebook pages from news outlets By Mohamed Belmaaza • 5 min read
News #StopTrafficking2016 project shows how augmented reality can foster empathy with news and social issues 'News can be consumed quite singularly, but we want to have a new journalistic approach and spark a discussion about topics in the news' By Mădălina Ciobanu • 2 min read
News Why BBC News went on Yik Yak to talk Brexit with millennials 98 per cent of Yik Yak's users are under 34 years old – but are they interested in serious topics, or just jokes? By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
News The Center for Investigative Reporting open-sources its Impact Tracker platform The tool can be used in conjunction with more traditional web metrics to gauge the impact of investigative work and other types of reporting By Mădălina Ciobanu • 2 min read
Credit: Screenshot from the AJ+ Facebook page. News 'We need to stay agile': The AJ+ take on the future of distributed news 'We're looking at how we can do things differently now that a lot of people are doing things like us' By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
