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
Credit: Dreamer, via Wikimedia Commons News Scandinavian media hit by paywall craze Journalist Kristine Lowe looks at the different approaches to paid-for content online being taken by Scandinavian news outlets and the flurry of new and old, tried and untried payment models By Kristine Lowe • 4 min read
News Huffington Post to launch live video network The network will launch on 13 August and will use the 'HuffPost universe – the stories, editors, reporters, bloggers, and community – as its real-time script' By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News Report: More people share news by email than Twitter Reuters Institute finds 55 per cent of UK respondents to its survey shared news by Facebook within the past week, 33 per cent by email, 23 per cent by Twitter By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
News BBC global news chief on trust: 'If they believe us, they will share it' Peter Horrocks tells World Media Summit in Moscow audiences trust news shared by their family and friends more than articles shared by 'most traditional media' By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
Credit: Clive Gee/PA News WikiLeaks starts publishing 2.4m #SyriaFiles WikiLeaks announces the start of its publication of 'more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies' from 680 domains By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News NME launches music recommendation Spotify app NME launches Spotify app bringing its music journalism onto the platform, offering both an 'instant music experience' and 'mag-like, lean-back element' By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
