Credit: Image by owenwbrown on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Study: Facebook third most popular news source in Arab world Broadcasters Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya named top outlets for accessing news across the region, followed by Facebook By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Image by jsawkins on Flickr. Some rights reserved News New guidance states councils should allow meetings to be filmed Secretary of state for communities and local government issues guidance to highlight 'new rights for journalists and bloggers to film council meetings' By Rachel McAthy • 6 min read
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Credit: Image by Jinx! on Flickr. Some rights reserved News New platform to help journalists monetise long-form content When launched, Beacon Publishing will enable journalists to self-publish content to a paywalled website, and to iPad, Kindle and other e-readers By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: By ValleeC on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News The Wire launches digital archive of all 350 issues All 25,000 pages of the underground music magazine's history are available to subscribers through the publication's app By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
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Credit: By Provisions on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News How newsrooms manage UGC in breaking news situations Pocket-sized cameras and social media have led to user-generated content becoming a permanent fixture of breaking news, but how can journalists find the signal in the noise? By Alastair Reid • 10 min read
Credit: By Alex.muller on Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons licence . News Mail Online publisher reaches 36% of UK population every week A focus on audience data means DMG Media 'learns 50 billion things about 43 million people over 10 days', chief executive Kevin Beatty told the World Newspaper Congress By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock News #editors13: Why a Swedish news group created a pop star site Markus Pettersson of Sweden's Stampen tells the World Editors Forum how the media group is engaging with a young and mobile audience By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News Golden Pen of Freedom awarded to Myanmar publisher The founder of Eleven Media Group was handed the award for 'keeping press freedom and democratic hope alive in Myanmar' By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
Credit: By Drnantu on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Report: Reader time on tablets now equals print The World Press Trends survey shows in US, Germany and France people are spending as long reading news on tablets as they are reading newspapers By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
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