News App of the week for journalists: Prismatic, for filtering social news This week's app of the week allows you to filter the social web and view and respond to tweets within the stories By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News NewsWhip Spike: A powerful tool to monitor news sources Newswhip Spike, a powerful tool for monitoring news shared on social media, invites news outlets and journalists to try it out for free By Sarah Marshall • 5 min read
News Social news app News360 re-launches on Android The new release of the News360 Android app follows the re-launch of the iPad app earlier this summer By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News Paul Foot Award for campaign journalism opens to entries The award, which is now in its eighth year, was set up by Private Eye and the Guardian in memory of investigative journalist Paul Foot By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News How UGC photo app Scoopshot approaches verification News outlets can search for and buy user-generated photos taken by Scoopshot users in 170 countries By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
Credit: Michael Bruntonspall on Flickr. Some rights reserved News NRS: Guardian has highest combined print and online monthly readership for quality titles The Guardian's combined readership for print and online, published today for the first time, shows 4.87 million more readers than print readership By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
Credit: Image: K ennymatic News US educational group to support local news site publishers The Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers Association officially launches this week at the BlockByBlock conference in Chicago By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
Credit: Image by kenteegardin on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News NRS releases dataset of print and digital readers National Readership Survey combines print and digital readership figures for the first time By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
News US site Homicide Watch DC exceeds $40k funding target The US site will use the funding to run Homicide Watch DC as a 'student reporting lab' for the next year while founder Laura Amico and her husband Chris study journalism innovation at Harvard By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News Narratively launches and surpasses $50k funding target The project, which this week started its daily publication of multimedia pieces, had raised $53,000 at the time of writing, with the campaign due to close later today By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Local news site The Lincolnite publishes its first iBook Digital-only title The Lincolnite says the 'Mayoral Medals Heroes 2012' iBook is the first of several multimedia books it is creating for iPad By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News Lissted launches journalist Twitter lists around key topics Twitter database Lissted launches useful tool to allow you to follow dynamic Twitter lists of journalists tweeting about key topics By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read