Credit: Thinkstock News 10 social media tips for local news organisations Experts in social media for local news share their tips and advice in what works on a regional level By Alastair Reid • 11 min read
Credit: By Jpatokal on Wikimedia Commons . Some rights reserved . News How Hostwriter wants to connect journalists around the world The recently launched platform lets vetted journalists contact each other for world-wide collaboration opportunities By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: By Luke Legay on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Report: Guardian had most web-only UK readers in March New figures from the National Readership Survey's PADD Report offer combined print and web readership, and web-only traffic By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
Credit: By tristam sparks on Flickr. Some Rights Reserved. News 7 engaging ways news outlets covered the European election Europe took to the polls over the weekend to elect a new European parliament, giving news outlets an opportunity to engage and inform an increasingly apathetic electorate By Alastair Reid • 5 min read
Credit: By Dave Catchpole on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News How Niuzly wants to put control into the hands of journalists New publishing platform Niuzly, which launched last month, allows writers to sell their articles to readers on for individual micropayments By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
Credit: By Mark Fischer on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Express Newspapers continues digital growth through April Express.co.uk and DailyStar.co.uk were the only national newspaper sites to report growth in web traffic for April, according to new figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation, while all other audited publishers record a fall By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
Credit: By jared on Flickr. Some Rights reserved. News Can personalisation save the news homepage? AOL is looking to personalise readers' experiences on its publishing sites without collecting personal information By Alastair Reid • 5 min read
Credit: By Melissa Marques on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Why collaboration makes sense for the Ukraine Desk outlets Vice News, Mashable, Quartz, Mother Jones, Digg and Breaking News have teamed up to share their reports from Ukraine through a common Twitter account By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Thinkstock News 'Automatic fact-checking' app due to launch this summer French company Trooclick will release a public beta of their Firefox plug-in to 'automatically fact check' business news before expanding into other fields By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
News Screencast: creating charts with Datawrapper A video guide to creating charts and graphs with Datawrapper By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
News How HuffPo uses data in the newsroom and beyond Speaking at the Reuters Institute's Big Data for Media conference, HuffPost chief executive Jimmy Maymann discussed innovative ways data could be used to improve reader experience By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock News BBC to launch daily infographics shared on social media Online visual journalism and social media are playing an increasing role in how the BBC is looking to experiment digitally By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
