News Screencast: How to extract data using import.io In the first a three-part series, import.io's Bea Schofield and Alex Gimson show how to extract data from websites using the free tool By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
Credit: Screenshot from Bellingcat.com News Brown Moses launches open-source investigations site Eliot Higgins, better known as Syria munitions blogger Brown Moses, today launches his new site Bellingcat to help investigative journalists using freely available information By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: By Anton S . on Flickr. Some rights reserved News BBC launches Facebook-first news service in Thailand Using the Facebook Notes feature as a CMS, World Service journalists hope to provide news 'without fear or favour' to a population in political turmoil By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
News Screencast: creating pivot tables for understanding data Learn how to grab and clean data for use in a pivot table, the "data journalist's best friend" By Chris Sutcliffe • 1 min read
News New UGC verification platform SAM is a 'CMS for tweets' Recently released from beta, SAM aims to streamline sourcing and verification of UGC through enabling better collaboration within newsrooms By Chris Sutcliffe • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Pierre Morel, courtesy of The Pixel Hunt News Re-building Haiti: using newsgames for complex issues The recently published interactive uses a mixture of longform journalism, multimedia and gaming elements to help readers understand the problems facing Haiti after the 2010 earthquake By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: By Luke Legay on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News The psychology of data visualisation: beyond the numbers Knowing the process behind memory retention is useful when visualising data for a story, so here are three areas to consider to make your visualisations more memorable By Chris Sutcliffe • 3 min read
Credit: By Jorge Franganillo on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News How to: build a pivot table to find the story in data Pivot tables allow you to quickly and easily examine data to find the stories hidden within By Chris Sutcliffe • 4 min read
News The '5 commandments' of Vine for viral videos Speaking at the FIPP Innovation forum in London, Don't Panic's creative director Richard Beer shared his lessons in using the microvideo platform for social shareable content By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Mark Hakansson News Announcing the agenda for the next news:rewired Sessions and workshops include: new forms of engagement, private social networks, collaboration, spreadsheet skills, building immersive stories and more By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock News NYTimes, WaPo and Mozilla building 'identity layer' for web In a new, open source project backed by a $3.9 million (£2.3 million) Knight Foundation grant, two of the biggest news organisations in the world hope to take engagement and personalisation to the next level By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
News Screencast: using Timeline.Js to make interactive timelines for stories Elements of multimedia and interactivity can help readers to better understand issues, and this free, open-source tool lets journalists create media-rich timelines to explore By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
