Credit: By aloshbennet on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Why custom speech content could 'change the game' for radio New app from NPR combines the serendipity of listening to the radio with a recommendation algorithm serving up content based on listener interests By Paul McNally • 2 min read
Credit: Screenshot from BBC.co.uk News Behind the BBC's interactive 'The rise of the Islamic State' The interactive video, the first of its kind from the BBC, seeks to combine video, text and interactive graphics to tell the story of the militant group sweeping across Iraq and Syria By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
Credit: By sergesegal on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Lessons from BBC virtual reality stream at Glasgow Games The BBC Research and Development team shares what lessons were drawn from the first virtual reality sports stream and how they can be used in the future By Catalina Albeanu • 4 min read
Credit: By Charlotte Gilhooly on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Times to launch political e-newsletter 'Red Box' The new six-days-a-week email is a partnership with YouGov, coming ahead of Scottish referendum and 2015 election By Paul McNally • 2 min read
Credit: By mauricedb on Flickr. Some rights reserved News TheyWorkForYou plans search and usability upgrades The open democracy site is 'looking at user behaviour intently' and opening up its voting data to developers in the run-up to 2015 election By Paul McNally • 2 min read
Credit: By Drnantu on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Ofcom: UK audience for digital news shifting to mobile The number of people using laptops and desktop computers to read news is falling as more turn to their mobile devices to stay informed, according to a new report by Ofcom By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Mark Hakansson News RTÉ announces mobile journalism event for March 2015 MoJoConIrl will bring together key players in the field of mobile journalism to discuss technology and storytelling, and to share experiences and practical techniques for the content production model By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
Credit: Image by ilouque on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News New rules give right to tweet, blog and film council meetings Openness of Local Government Regulations only apply to England and follow several complaints from reporters and community bloggers By Paul McNally • 2 min read
Credit: Image by Valerie Everett on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Why Gannett is separating publishing and digital Media group says split will 'drive innovation' and make acquisitions easier – while remaining committed to digital journalism By Paul McNally • 2 min read
Credit: Screenshot from BirminghamMail.co.uk of the WWI data project News How Trinity Mirror's data team developed their WWI search tool Central data journalism unit used raw data from Commonwealth War Graves Commission to help local newspaper readers find out more about the war-dead from their area By Paul McNally • 4 min read
Credit: By Jorge Franganillo on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Court rules FoI requests can specify file format Ruling could make work easier for investigative and data journalists – after applicant complained that 184 pages of data were supplied as a PDF By Paul McNally • 2 min read
News Screencast: Extracting data from a password-protected site Accessing information is central to any journalist's work, and this screencast shows how to get data from locked sites with import.io By Abigail Edge • 2 min read
