News City Bureau empowers citizens and bolsters local reporting with new tools 'Documenters' offers reporting training and then pays individuals to put those tools into practice, thanks to the City Scrapers tech platform By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
News Hashtag Our Stories is using Snapchat lenses to turn citizens into more effective storytellers The mobile journalism network is creating digital tools to help more citizen journalists tell local stories for global audiences By Caroline Scott • 4 min read
News The Cube shows viewers how it debunks misinformation while it is spreading online The social media newsdesk at Euronews aims to respond to falsehoods faster than TV studios to help rebuild trust in the media By Jacob Granger • 4 min read
News University of Birmingham receives WhatsApp grant to find out how to reduce the spread of misinformation during elections The research team will specifically analyse the use of the messaging app in the upcoming Nigerian polls, through in-depth interviews, focus groups and surveys By Caroline Scott • 2 min read
News Blockchain: does transparency equal trust? Here is how blockchain technology can help journalists re-engage with their audiences By Marcela Kunova • 1 min read
News From cabinets to Google Cloud: NYT revisits history with Past Tense series by digitising six-million photo archive Using Google Cloud Storage and Cloud Vision API, the publisher can sift through 'The Morgue' image archive to retell stories of the past. By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
News Discover Leveson helps journalists examine their profession Kingston University released a cutting-edge archive of the landmark public inquiry By Marcela Kunova • 3 min read
News What makes readers pay for online news? Twipe's surveys have found that paywalls are not as efficient as you might think, audiences want unlimited access instead By Marcela Kunova • 3 min read
News CrossCheck Nigeria targets WhatsApp as a hotspot for fake news 16 news organisations are working together as part of a ‘watchdog project’ to debunk politically motivated mis- and disinformation ahead of the 2019 Nigerian election By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
News Picture News teaches schoolchildren to challenge what they see in the media The project creates visually strong posters to illustrate news stories and helps teachers spark a debate in primary schools By Marcela Kunova • 3 min read
News Facebook, photojournalism and Gmail plug-ins: Here is your weekly journalism news update Pushed for time? Catch up with this week's coverage from Journalism.co.uk By Caroline Scott • 3 min read
News Which metrics truly matter to improve your online content? Clicks mean nothing if you do not understand how to use online analytics to improve the quality of your editorial By Marcela Kunova • 2 min read
