Credit: By mac_ivan on Flickr. Some rights reserved News How journalism is facing its own battle in Ukraine As Ukrainian and Russian television channels exchange a war of words, many are turning to social media for their news By Alastair Reid • 7 min read
Credit: Image by va1berg on Flickr. Some rights reserved News BuzzFeed and BBC most socially-shared outlets in February BuzzFeed content received more than 50 million interactions on Facebook in February, while BBC articles were shared almost 25 million times on Twitter, according to data released by Newswhip By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Phanatic on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News The web at 25: tools for journalists It is 25 years since Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposed the idea for what became the World Wide Web, so to mark the anniversary we have drawn up 25 journalistic tasks and some online tools for the job By Alastair Reid • 10 min read
Credit: Thinkstock News Making video pay: VHX opens paywall service to public The free-to-use service allows users to put a paywall on online video and build a custom site for distribution, or embed elsewhere By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
Credit: Image from Thinkstock News Relay introduces new features for mobile-first liveblog Updates to the mobile-first liveblogging platform have been tried out by NASA and Google Glass By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
Credit: Image by BHernandez on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Is online abuse affecting journalists' behaviour? Journalists invited to continue responding to 'one minute' survey, the early results of which suggest 'macho' culture may be hiding effects of online abuse By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock News Building an open-source tool for embedding comments The WordPress plugin from business site CFO, called Response Stack, lets users embed comments from around their site into new posts as part of a continued exploration of community engagement techniques By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Image courtesy of Vice Media News Vice launches news channel for 'young, global audience' Vice News launches today as an 'evolution' of the current affairs films that have driven the organisation's recent successes By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
Credit: By ToastyKen on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News How Vizzuality wants to bring mapping to the masses A recent grant from the Knight Foundation will fund experiments in data visualisation and storytelling, but 'democratising maps' is a key idea for the team behind open source mapping tool CartoDB By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Arbron on Flickr. Some rights reserved News 5 ways hyperlocal sites can do more with data In an adapted extract from Data Journalism: Mapping the Future, Damian Radcliffe shares data journalism advice for hyperlocal websites By Damian Radcliffe • 5 min read
Credit: Thinkstock News How Keepr helps journalists search social for meaning The Knight Foundation-funded prototype searches social media for breaking news stories and delivers timely, relevant and popular sources By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
Credit: Thinkstock News How digital weighs up against print for UK magazine circulations New data from the Audit Bureau of Circulation reports combined digital and print sales for the first time with print still dominating, for now By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
