Credit: By Melissa Marques on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Contributoria to build collaborative writing community The platform, which just unveiled its prototype, aims to facilitate the pitching of work, as well as funding pledges, and a collaborative publishing process By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: Image by Mark Hakansson News Mobile-first app Circa launches desktop site The app, which provides updating content 'not designed to be standalone articles', expands to desktop with Android and iOS 7 to follow By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
Credit: Image provided by Redbrick News Redbrick student newspaper site to get redesign The University of Birmingham's student-run site is to give readers more multimedia content and improve usability on mobile devices By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock News How Joota puts content at the heart of social networking The platform lets users create Joota cards for particular pieces of content, where they can host conversations, and curate cards into followable groups By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
Credit: Image: K ennymatic News Russia Today team 'refused entry to arms fair over tweet' A team from Ruptly, RT's video agency, says their press credentials revoked for including the #stopDSEI hashtag in a personal tweet linking to content By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
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
