Credit: Thinkstock News 7 data viz tools for covering the UK general election A selection of (mostly free) data visualisation tools and apps for journalists covering the upcoming UK general election By Abigail Edge • 4 min read
Credit: Image by andresfranco.net Some rights reserved News 5 innovative ideas for digital journalism from Build The News The two-day hackathon saw developers and students reinvent digital storytelling with ideas ranging from interactive elections to jargon busters By Mădălina Ciobanu • 5 min read
Credit: By Horia Varlan on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Advice on innovating in journalism from new media outlets As part of a lecture series at City University London, journalists from Vice, BuzzFeed, Business New Europe, Quartz and Huffington Post shared their tips By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
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News How 5 media outlets are using Tumblr Now that Tumblr is the fastest growing social network, with 70 per cent of its audience in the 16-35 age bracket, how are media organisations sharing news on the site? By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
Credit: By pagedooley on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Datawrapper to launch paid-for options Co-founder Mirko Lorenz says casual users of the data visualisation tool can still create charts for free, but Datawrapper will no longer host the graphics By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
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