News Al Jazeera English uses Reddit for presidential debate Journalists from Al Jazeera English's The Stream engage with the 2 million-strong Reddit politics community, taking comments made on the social platform and broadcasting them during live coverage of the presidential debate By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: Whitefield_d on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Google 'experiment' lets content creators charge for articles The Google Wallet platform lets web users purchase articles from three initial partners for between 25 to 99 cents By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: Dreamer, via Wikimedia Commons News Piano paywall in Slovakia increases subscriber content According to Piano Media, which provides the national paywall, four participating publishers will again add to their exclusive offerings for subscribers in a bid to further 'increase reach' By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News MSN announces optimised site for Windows 8 and IE10 Reuters also reports that MSN is 'making a multi-million dollar investment' in its news operation By Sam Smith • 1 min read
Credit: C. Regina on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Pew study: Mobile devices increase news consumption Report finds nearly a quarter of Americans own a tablet, with a similar number expecting to get a device By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
News FT launches Latin America homepage and web app The Financial Times is also launching a print edition for Latin America By Sam Smith • 1 min read
News Guardian and Tumblr to 'live-GIF' presidential debates Guardian reporter Adam Gabbatt to simultaneously guest edit the Tumblr election blog where animated GIFs will be posted and liveblog 'the full stories behind the GIFs' for the Guardian By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
Credit: Eric Hayes on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News How Yahoo is offering 'contextually relevant ads' for publishers The new service, announced late last week, will give publishers a 'majority' share of revenues raised by user engagement with the advertising By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
Credit: Still taken from Irish Times video News Lessons from The Irish Times digital challenge The digital challenge came to a finale on Friday when data visualisation startup GetBulb was named winner of a €50,000 prize By Rachel McAthy • 5 min read
News How journalists can use Muck Rack as a portfolio platform Muck Rack, which now has 10,000 journalists on social media in its database, has recently launched a new portfolio feature for journalists to add links to their work By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
News Digital science mag Guru receives mobile app funding Guru Magazine, which launched early last year, is hoping the funding will help it reach a larger audience and launch a mobile app by the end of the year By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News Independent appoints digital editor to lead publishing 'evolution' Christian Broughton has been appointed at the Independent's new digital editor and as such will lead the digital brand across platforms By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
