News Centaur Media: Digital growth but trading conditions 'challenging' While the company reports 'strong momentum in growing digital' revenue, the outlook for second half of the financial year for the business publishing division is said to be 'relatively uncertain' for ad-led products By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News Long-form digital journalism project Matter launches Matter, which will produce long-form pieces of journalism on science and technology, has now launched with content viewable as ebooks or online By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: Image courtesy of Metro News Metro announces 'mobile-first' strategy and responsive site Metro will release its responsive site 'within weeks' and is launching a digital edition app for Android 'within days' By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
Credit: Image by potzuyoko on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Citizen newswire Demotix acquired by Corbis In an online announcement Demotix said Corbis 'is acquiring the whole company to better integrate us into their global news operation' By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
Credit: C. Regina on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News PPA: Tablets 'reinvigorate' appetite for magazine media According to the report 68 per cent of tablet users said they 'have read newspapers or magazines on a tablet that they had not previously read in print' By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Johnston Press: Market 'tougher than expected' Interim management statement for 18 weeks to 3 November finds 11.4 per cent decline in total revenues, on a 'like-for-like' basis, or 16.1 per cent on an unadjusted basis By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News How Boston Globe's Instagram wall feeds its journalism The Boston Globe has a wall showing every Instagram picture posted locally and is using it as a source of stories By Sarah Marshall • 4 min read
News Hash Gordon allows news sites to embed collections of images Guardian's n0tice launches Hash Gordon, a tool that allows news sites to search for images by tag and embed the collection in a news story By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: By Wiertz Sébastien on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News NCTJ chief executive warns of 'bogus qualifications' Chief executive of the National Council for the Training of Journalists claims 'many young people' are 'completing expensive courses and passing bogus qualifications that simply don’t provide them with the vocational skills they need to get jobs' By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: Image by MTA Long Island Rail Road on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News How WSJ reporters are tweeting the commute after Sandy The Wall Street Journal is using its 'new streaming story technology' to pull together a 'scattered snapshot of the morning commute' from its own reporters, continuing to highlight the impact of Hurricane Sandy on travel By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: Image by mozillaeu on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Mozilla releases Popcorn Maker 1.0, a web-native video tool The free editing tool allows journalists with no coding skills to create 'contextual video' by including elements from the web, such as tweets, Google maps and live feeds By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News Knight-Mozilla announces eight new Open News fellows The eight fellows will be embedded in newsrooms across the world at outlets including the New York Times, the BBC, the Guardian, Zeit Online and La Nacion By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
