News Guardian launches Olympic-themed digital initiatives The new digital projects that have been built specially for the Olympics include a reader interactive, real-time dashboard and network of experts By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News Social reader app Zite launches on Windows Phone 7 CNN-owned 'personalised magazine' app Zite follows apps for iPad, iPhone and Android with Windows Phone 7 release By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News Interactive storytelling tool Meograph launches Users can now create Meographs, which tell stories by location and time, and embed them on other websites, such as within news pages By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Digital First Media curation team helps cover Colorado shooting The US media group's new curation team will officially start a week on Monday, but a 'makeshift' team was put together today to help report on the shooting in Colorado By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Former South Yorkshire Times duo tap into real ale news Jim Oldfield and his partner Alex Vessey, who were both made redundant from the Johnston Press title last year, now run Hand-Pumped.co.uk from home, but have not turned their backs on print By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: By Drnantu on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Future's Newsstand magazine portfolio is AOP Launch of 2012 Future was also named Digital Publisher of the Year (consumer) at the awards on Thursday (19 July) night for the second year in a row By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Open journalism: Hosting global conversations on BBC World Have Your Say How the six-year-old news programme takes the temperature of conversations across the web and produces a news show to reflect global discussion By Rachel McAthy • 9 min read
News Typewriter art installation tells stories of journalists 'risking their lives to give us a tweet' The typewriter installation by interactive art director Julian Koschwitz is hooked up to generative software producing words and images based on slain journalists' data from the Committee to Protect Journalists and other web searches By Helena Williams • 3 min read
News YouTube adds face blurring as citizen journalist tool Social news agency Storyful welcomes the move, saying faces 'do not help a huge amount' in the verification process By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News Tool of the week for journalists: WolframAlpha WolframAlpha is an internet research tool that journalists should know about By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News ProPublica to open up news app desk after $1.9m funding boost The US non-profit says it will use the new funding to 'support and enhance' its news applications work, with new staff and the opening up of its news app desk to other newsrooms By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: Michael Bruntonspall on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Guardian News & Media reports £44.2m loss Guardian News and Media has also re-opened a voluntary redundancy programme for editorial staff to try and cut costs by £7 million By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
