News Business news site Quartz appoints new London-based editor Jason Karaian, who has previously worked for The Economist, has been appointed senior European correspondent at Quartz By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: Image by Images_of_Money on Flickr. Some rights reserved News 10 revenue streams funding investigative journalism A look at four investigative journalism start-ups – Matter, Exaro, ThaiPublica and The Muckraker – publishing to digital platforms By Sarah Marshall • 6 min read
Credit: Image by Travis Goodspeed on Flickr. Some rights reserved News You can now create RSS feeds based on keywords with Ping.it Ping.it's newsgathering and monitoring ability just got more powerful – as you can now set up feeds based on keywords and only surface stories that have gained traction on social media By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: Image by Johan Larsson on Flickr. Creative commons licence. Some rights reserved. News How new focus is driving digital revenue at Johnston Press Online revenues and audiences increase for the local news publisher as site redesigns and new digital objectives begin to gather momentum By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Ran Yaniv Hartstein on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Report highlights key traffic drivers to news sites The report by analytics platform Parse.ly also shows that Feedly drives far more traffic than other RSS readers By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: lirneasia on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Radar developing SMS reporting app Citizen reporting organisation Radar is crowdfunding to build an app that lets reporters send secure reports via SMS and allows editors to manage and publish content on the go By Alastair Reid • 5 min read
Credit: Image by owenwbrown on Flickr. Some rights reserved News All news sites can now embed Facebook posts Facebook has rolled out the embed functionality to all users, having tested it with five pilot news outlets By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
Credit: By Melissa Marques on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Freelancer takes to Kickstarter to fund Madagascar trip Freelance journalist Emilie Filou is hoping to crowdfund £4,500 to support her trip to Madagascar and coverage of stories in two regions By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
Credit: By Will Scullin on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Reporting guidance to 'open up' planning appeal hearings The guidance will set out the right for anyone to 'report, film and tweet planning appeal hearings', previously left to the council's discretion, in bid to encourage greater openness By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
Credit: Image by katerha on Flickr. Some rights reserved News ThaiPublica: Investigative journalism and 'cute' interactives A look at an investigative news site for Thailand inspired by ProPublica By Sarah Marshall • 5 min read
Credit: By Kashchey the Immortal on Picasa. Some rights reserved. News Investigative news site Exaro brings down its paywall Exaro takes down paywall in move away from digital subscriptions, with a new focus on 'add-on data services ' By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: Image by the Italian voice on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Journalist Q&A: From online to editor-in-chief at T3 Kieran Alger, the new editor-in-chief of T3, tells us how a digitally native journalist became responsible for a print magazine By Sarah Marshall • 5 min read
