Credit: Image by florianric on Flickr. Some rights reserved News 5 tools to help journalists build great stories Belgian broadcaster VRT shares some tools to map and research stories, as well as its guidelines for choosing the right one from the many available By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
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Credit: By gpaumier on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News How news outlets can improve their coverage of the LGBT community What can newsrooms do to include more LGBT voices in their reporting and to ensure their coverage of the community is respectful? By Catalina Albeanu • 2 min read
Credit: Phil Chetwynd , global editor-in-chief, AFP, moderating the session at NewsXchange. Image by Journalism.co.uk News Should journalists adopt politically charged hashtags? CNN and French news outlet iTele share their experience of covering the Charlie Hebdo shooting in January, and getting to the story behind the hashtags By Catalina Albeanu • 2 min read
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Credit: Image courtesy of Erin Sparling News Creation and curation: Building newsroom tools at Dow Jones The company's developers work with the journalists and editors to meet the "ever changing needs of news", said head of newsroom development, Erin Sparling By Caroline Scott • 1 min read
Credit: Journalism.co.uk. Some rights reserved News How NowThis Media's social news videos are 'optimised for speed' The company has almost reached 600 million video views in October, but how does NowThis aim to make real time news for different platforms? By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
News 'Being a generalist will not get you as far as having a niche' – Q&A with Susan Grossman Coach, media mentor and freelance journalist Susan Grossman tells us about her job, and why it is important to have a niche when starting out in the industry By Caroline Scott • 1 min read
Credit: Image by Images_of_money on Flickr. Some rights reserved News How news outlet The Canary aims to 'diversify media' The new platform will pay 50 per cent of its profits to writers, a model based on the traffic each individual story brings to the site By Caroline Scott • 2 min read
Credit: By Jason Howie on Flickr. Some rights reserved News The dos and don’ts of ethical social newsgathering Eyewitness media expert Fergus Bell shared his advice for working with user-generated content in a sustainable way, speaking at news:rewired 'in focus' By Alli Shultes • 3 min read
Credit: Journalism.co.uk News Highlights from the first news:rewired 'in focus' A Storify of tweets and videos from the news:rewired 'in focus' journalism conference, held at Reuters in London, on 21 October By Caroline Scott • 1 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock News ‘Talk to people about your story’: Burns survivor help victims with journalism Student journalist Lucy Wilson wants to combat public stigma surrounding impairments and disabilities through the power of feature writing By Caroline Scott • 1 min read
