Credit: Image by Travis Goodspeed on Flickr. Some rights reserved News You can now create RSS feeds based on keywords with Ping.it Ping.it's newsgathering and monitoring ability just got more powerful – as you can now set up feeds based on keywords and only surface stories that have gained traction on social media By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: Image by Valerie Everett on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Guardian site had 523k more UK readers than Mail Online in June The data also showed the Guardian increased its lead over the Telegraph as the most read quality daily across print and online combined By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: Image by owenwbrown on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Storytelling tool Meograph introduces Facebook tagging The integration means a user's Facebook friends can be tagged in Meographs, with plans to also introduce Facebook pages and 'custom-defined tags' shortly By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: Image by Johan Larsson on Flickr. Creative commons licence. Some rights reserved. News How new focus is driving digital revenue at Johnston Press Online revenues and audiences increase for the local news publisher as site redesigns and new digital objectives begin to gather momentum By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Image by alexyv on Flickr. Some rights reserved News ABC: Latest traffic figures for local newspaper websites The audited figures show web traffic was up year-on-year for each of the six newspaper groups audited By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: Image by Ran Yaniv Hartstein on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Report highlights key traffic drivers to news sites The report by analytics platform Parse.ly also shows that Feedly drives far more traffic than other RSS readers By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: lirneasia on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Radar developing SMS reporting app Citizen reporting organisation Radar is crowdfunding to build an app that lets reporters send secure reports via SMS and allows editors to manage and publish content on the go By Alastair Reid • 5 min read
News Journalist Q&A: From freelancer to SE Asia correspondent A Q&A with the Guardian’s Southeast Asia correspondent Kate Hodal, on her move from freelancing to her current role By Marcela Kunova • 6 min read
Credit: By wilhelmja on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News New site from Chicago Tribune crowdsources 'what's hot' in the city NewsChicago, built for the Tribune by CrowdyNews, sources and distributes popular stories from around the area through a curated list of Twitter users By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Image by owenwbrown on Flickr. Some rights reserved News All news sites can now embed Facebook posts Facebook has rolled out the embed functionality to all users, having tested it with five pilot news outlets By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
Credit: By Mark Fischer on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News ABC confirms web traffic of 134m for Mail Online in July Figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulation for July confirmed the website for the Daily Mail recorded an 11 per cent increase in web traffic for July, compared to the previous month By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: By Melissa Marques on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Freelancer takes to Kickstarter to fund Madagascar trip Freelance journalist Emilie Filou is hoping to crowdfund £4,500 to support her trip to Madagascar and coverage of stories in two regions By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
