Credit: By James Cridland on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Twelve tips on harnessing the power of a news community A collection of pointers from the Guardian, Economist, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera and Chartbeat on how to gain greater community interaction and contribution, as shared at our news:rewired conference last month By Rachel McAthy • 7 min read
News New York Times launches US election Tumblr The Agenda is the first Tumblr blog from the New York Times that is not image-driven and is integrated into the news site By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
News Free weekly paper for Swadlincote to launch next week The new title for the South Derbyshire town will be run by former Northcliffe Media sales manager David King and edited by freelance writer Louise Birkett By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: Image courtesy of SoundCloud News Newsgathering 'revolutionised' at KM Group by iPhones and SoundCloud KM Group's local newsdesks across Kent use iPhones and SoundCloud to provide audio, video and copy for the publisher's news sites, local radio stations and newspapers By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News Citizen journalism site Blottr launches 'The People's Olym-PICS' Blottr, like many other sites, is gathering people's photos and videos relating to the Olympics By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
Credit: dionhinchcliffe on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Washington Post's TruthTeller will check facts in real-time The application, which the Post hopes to make available to journalists at other news outlets, was awarded $50,000 by the Knight Foundation to help it get started By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News Associated Press updates Twitter and Facebook guidelines The news agency has updated its social media guidelines to say as long as journalists have informed the newsdesk of big breaking news they are allowed to tweet about it By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Guardian launches Olympic-themed digital initiatives The new digital projects that have been built specially for the Olympics include a reader interactive, real-time dashboard and network of experts By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News Former South Yorkshire Times duo tap into real ale news Jim Oldfield and his partner Alex Vessey, who were both made redundant from the Johnston Press title last year, now run Hand-Pumped.co.uk from home, but have not turned their backs on print By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Typewriter art installation tells stories of journalists 'risking their lives to give us a tweet' The typewriter installation by interactive art director Julian Koschwitz is hooked up to generative software producing words and images based on slain journalists' data from the Committee to Protect Journalists and other web searches By Helena Williams • 3 min read
News YouTube adds face blurring as citizen journalist tool Social news agency Storyful welcomes the move, saying faces 'do not help a huge amount' in the verification process By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News Standard launches print edition replica paid-for iPad app London Evening Standard launches £4.99-a-month iPad app that is a 'newspaper-led experience rather than a web-based app' By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
