Credit: Screenshot from thesundaytimes.com News The Times building 'suite of tools' for multimedia stories 'My Year with Malala', a long-form multimedia article, is the first to be produced using the first iteration of tools By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Mark Hakansson News Report details global trends in mobile, video and social The Global Media Trends Book, published by the European Publishers Council, draws on more than 500 datasets to analyse and predict global trends in digital media By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: By Argenberg on Flickr. Some rights reserved News How entrepreneurial journalism is building a local voice in Egypt Mandara Online, an Egyptian NGO, acts as a portal for news and content from across rural and disconnected Upper Egypt By Alastair Reid • 5 min read
Credit: Image provided by Ghost News Ghost launches as publishing platform with writers in mind The open source platform is released for download today with a hosted service scheduled for January 2014 By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
Credit: Image by John.Karakatsanis on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Acuerdo: Long-form journalism for 'pissed-off readers' The 'journalistic start-up' and 'innovations lab' is looking to incorporate numerous elements of digital journalism into a bi-monthly, tablet-first edition By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
Credit: By Martin Lopatka on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Newsgames: Future media or a trivial pursuit? Interactives have become a regular feature of any large news organisation's digital output, but some outlets, particularly smaller ones, are taking this further, into games By Alastair Reid • 11 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock News How Sailthru uses 1:1 personalisation to drive engagement By using 'smart' data to better understand their audience, publishers can personalise their output to each individual reader By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: By Robert Scoble on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News How publishers can best utilise Google Currents Google Currents, the internet giant's mobile publishing platform, shared some elements of best practice for publishers at the Association of Online Publishers autumn conference By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
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Credit: Image by Johan Larsson on Flickr. Creative commons licence. Some rights reserved. News Circa updates app with breaking news alerts Mobile-first news app also launches on Android for the first time, with breaking news notifications update and new visual options on images and maps By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
Credit: By Melissa Marques on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Comments return and interaction boosted at the Daily Record The Scottish daily removed the commenting facility from football stories last year but have re-engaged their community with a new team By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Image by owenwbrown on Flickr. Some rights reserved News How journalists can use Facebook Graph Search update By expanding Graph Search to public status updates, comments and photo captions, Facebook has opened up new sources and methods by which journalists can use the social network By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
