News How Project Fission wants to be 'the Lego for news' By creating a database for the 'atomic units' of news, recently funded Knight Foundation Prototype applicant, Project Fission, is intended to rethink the process of reporting and distributing news for the better By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Thinkstock News Facebook Newswire offers UGC verified by Storyful Facebook Newswire has been sharing information verified by social newswire Storyful since late March, including images, relevant hashtags and breaking news updates By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: By ota_photos on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Culture, collaboration and communication: Digital development at The Times and Sunday Times A look at how the news development team at The Times and The Sunday Times is working to encourage digital thinking and empower journalists with accessible digital tools By Rachel Bartlett • 4 min read
Credit: By Micky Aldridge on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News E-newsletters: still a ‘powerful medium’ for engagement Although email may be the 'unsexy older cousin' of social media networks, newsletters can still be an effective tool for engaging readers By Alastair Reid • 8 min read
News Screencast: adding Twitter mentions to Google Docs with Zapier This video shows how to use app automation tool Zapier to monitor search terms, mentions and hashtags on Twitter, and then transfer them to a Google spreadsheet By Abigail Edge • 3 min read
Credit: Image by andresfranco.net Some rights reserved News Driving digital innovation at the Wall Street Journal From the creation of an 'audience engagement desk' to internal innovation competitions and training courses, WSJ's executive editor tells Journalism.co.uk how the outlet encourages digital evolution By Rachel Bartlett • 9 min read
News 20 years of digital milestones at BBC Online To mark BBC Online's recent 20th anniversary, Journalism.co.uk looks back at some of the Beeb's most significant digital developments over the last two decades By Abigail Edge • 5 min read
Credit: By Jess on Wikimedia Commons. Some rights reserved. News ABCs: Guardian passes 100m monthly traffic milestone Latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation show a record month for the Guardian in March, while web traffic to the Independent grew by almost 25 per cent month-on-month By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Thinkstock News Cardiff Uni introduces 'computational journalism' Masters The new Master's degree was largely the result of feedback from those working in digital journalism, who voiced an interest in new graduates with both journalism and coding ability By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: By ToastyKen on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News How BuzzFeed World is making the outlet a 'one-stop shop' With the appointment of Paul Hamilos from the Guardian, BuzzFeed World continues to build on the foundations of hard news to supplement its more light-hearted output By Alastair Reid • 5 min read
News Tool for journalists: mattermap, for curating content Create a mind map of crowdsourced information or quotes from the web using this free web tool By Abigail Edge • 3 min read
Credit: Image by owenwbrown on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Daily Post 'handing over control to readers' via Facebook A new feature on the Daily Post's Facebook Page asks readers to vote for the person they would like to see interviewed By Abigail Edge • 3 min read
