Credit: Image by kiwanja on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Citizen journalists report Sierra Leone elections by SMS Connecting citizens in a country where 'more people have a mobile phone than have electricity', with editors and the online world By Sarah Marshall • 10 min read
Credit: Image by kiwanja on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Connecting journalists with sources beyond social networks The proposed platform, which is currently being prototyped, will aim to connect journalists with sources on the ground via mobile phones By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News Long-form digital journalism project Matter launches Matter, which will produce long-form pieces of journalism on science and technology, has now launched with content viewable as ebooks or online By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: Image by potzuyoko on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Citizen newswire Demotix acquired by Corbis In an online announcement Demotix said Corbis 'is acquiring the whole company to better integrate us into their global news operation' By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
Credit: C. Regina on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News PPA: Tablets 'reinvigorate' appetite for magazine media According to the report 68 per cent of tablet users said they 'have read newspapers or magazines on a tablet that they had not previously read in print' By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Hash Gordon allows news sites to embed collections of images Guardian's n0tice launches Hash Gordon, a tool that allows news sites to search for images by tag and embed the collection in a news story By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: Image by mozillaeu on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Mozilla releases Popcorn Maker 1.0, a web-native video tool The free editing tool allows journalists with no coding skills to create 'contextual video' by including elements from the web, such as tweets, Google maps and live feeds By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News How WorldStream offered 'video stream' during Sandy The WSJ had reporters 'filing from everywhere that was affected by the weather', with WorldStream offering a 'visual video stream of dispatches from all these affected areas coming in on a pretty constant, or near constant, basis' By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
Credit: The Memo News Magazine The Memo aims to offer 'diversity of information' The magazine, which hopes to launch next year, has taken to Kickstarter to crowdfund for the quarterly magazine By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: Image by kenteegardin on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News NRS: Telegraph is UK's most-read quality daily The latest figures from the National Readership Survey print and digital data report shows the Telegraph has a UK monthly readership of 9.23m across print and online By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News App of the week for journalists: SoundNote, an iPad app for interviews An iPad app created by a student journalist, for students and journalists By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News CNN's newsroom on the rails: Reporting from a train across America How a train carriage became a newsroom as CNN journalists shot and filed footage while travelling across America By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
