Credit: Photo by GeoJango Maps on Unsplash News What can be done to create more viable routes into journalism? 80 per cent of the UK press hold university degrees, a one-way route into journalism which is stopping the industry being more representative By Jacob Granger • 6 min read
Credit: by freestocks/ Unsplash News Three reasons why your newsroom may want to use Twitter Spaces The social audio feature has given news organisations like The New Statesman and Tortoise a way to chat with their audience about the stories they are keeping a close eye on. But the possibilities do not end there By Catherine Edwards • 4 min read
Credit: Photo by Melanie Pongratz on Unsplash News Here's what new Guardian research tells us about commercial opportunities for podcasts Podcasting is a place where listeners are more attuned to ads than they are on TV and radio - plus, it makes them more curious about your commercial partners By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
Credit: ROBIN WORRALL on Unsplash News Forget Facebook: four publishers share tips on growing audiences on other social platforms Facebook’s demographic is the oldest of social networks while TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube offer great opportunities for news brands to reach younger users By Eliott Brennan • 4 min read
Credit: (Left) BBC journalist Emily Maitlis by Gothick via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Licence. (Right) BBC journalist Fiona Bruce by Andrew Campbell via Wikimedia CC BY 2.0 Licence. (Both Images cropped to fit together) News Why we need more biographies of women journalists on Wikipedia The most-visited English language website has the power to help increase women journalists’ safety, credibility, recognition, inclusion and income By Marcela Kunova • 3 min read
Credit: Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash News Facebook for publishers: dos and don'ts when posting your stories The platform looks to reward positive posts with more visibility and punish those who spread clickbait and low-quality journalism. What does this mean for traffic-hungry media organisations? By Jacob Granger • 9 min read
Credit: Photo by Kolby Milton on Unsplash News WaPo and Social Spider use email to showcase the best - not just the latest - news stories Newsletters are seeing a resurgence as time-poor audiences call for a simpler way to cut through the noise of the news cycle By Jacob Granger • 4 min read
Credit: Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash News Where is the problem in the diversity pipeline? Diversity champion and editor of The Conversation Jo Adetunji says that newsrooms must stop hiring in their own image and young journalists need to learn to pester the pros By Jacob Granger • 4 min read
Credit: Screenshots from BBC News Facebook News BBC News focuses on explainers and human voices when covering Afghanistan on social media The UK public broadcaster gained more than 150m views in one month across social media platforms through essential knowledge and exclusive videos on the Taliban By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
Credit: Zach Steward, CEO of Quartz (above) News Quartz launches Essentials to boost reader engagement with explainer cards The publisher hopes that this free interactive feature that helps users understand complex stories in a wider context will attract new members By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
Credit: Photo by fauxels from Pexels News Over-reliance on graduate hiring can thwart the efforts to diversify the UK news industry The latest NCTJ report reveals that 92 per cent of the British press is white and 89 per cent hold a university degree. What will it take to achieve fairer representation? By Jacob Granger • 4 min read
Credit: UK Parliament News 'Platforms should pay for news' a peer committee says In a new report on sustainability of journalism, peers also call for fixing the 'dysfunctional online advertising market' and a wider use of apprenticeships to diversify the industry By Marcela Kunova • 4 min read
