News Duedil to add '100 times more data' in site rebuild Data tool Duedil to add major new data sets to the tool that is particularly useful for journalists By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News Financial Times clocks up 1m followers on Google+ The FT has more followers on Google+ than the New York Times, Guardian, Independent, Daily Mail, Telegraph and Times combined By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News Why NYT is bringing BuzzFeed on board for convention coverage Why the New York Times is partnering with social news outlet BuzzFeed to offer 'expanded' video coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News How 'mark as error' tweet idea could impact news on Twitter Social media experts from the BBC, Thomson Reuters and Storyful give their views on the proposal of a strike-though option to mark a tweet as containing an error By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
News Economist: Digital-only subscriptions up more than 50% More than three times the number of print subscribers are also now reading the newspaper on a digital device weekly, according to the annual report By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Why local news site Wrexham.com is 'quietly confident' for the future A look inside local news site Wrexham.com, which first launched just less than a year ago and recently moved into its first offices and took on a full-time journalist By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News Twitter rolls out expanded tweets with partner news outlets Partner websites said to include the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and Der Spiegel Online By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News New national news aggregator iPad app Niiiws launches UK edition Niiiws brings together national news reports based on articles being shared and engaged with the most on social networks By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News CPJ launches fellowship in honour of former chair Paul Steiger The six month fellowship aims 'to give budding journalists an opportunity to contribute to the defense of press freedom and learn about the challenges journalists face around the world' By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News ProPublica outlines 'frictionless sharing' feature on Facebook The US investigative journalism non-profit has introduced a new feature which means articles read for 10 seconds or longer will automatically be shared by the reader on Facebook By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News The Times launches 'experimental Tumblr page' for Opinion The Times today announced it had launched the platform to showcase additional work from its columnists along with interesting photos, links and video By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News iWitness tool offers social content search by time and place The web app, which was one of last year's Knight News Challenge winners, enables users to filter by text, photo or video to find content shared by time and location By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
