News Chris Meighan, Washington Post design director, emerging news products, to give news:rewired keynote in December The conference takes place on 1 December in London By Catalina Albeanu • 2 min read
Credit: By mhmarketing on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Reuters: Avoid the 'wolf pack mentality' when approaching eyewitnesses online John Pullman, global head of visual and pictures at Reuters, highlights one of the biggest newsgathering challenges facing media outlets today, and explains how Reuters adapts to the increasing volume of user-generated content By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock. News How the Reveal Project aims to help journalists verify eyewitness media The initiative, co-funded by the European Commission, is doing research and development work into the different aspects of verifying materials from social media By Mădălina Ciobanu • 4 min read
Credit: Image by Mark Hakansson News First speakers announced for December's news:rewired Digital media experts from the BBC, WSJ, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, The Times and The Sunday Times will discuss data storytelling, cross-border investigations, building in-house tools, and more By Catalina Albeanu • 2 min read
Credit: Screenshot of Social Searcher News Tool for journalists: Social Searcher, a search engine for social networks Search multiple social networks at the same time on this free website By Catalina Albeanu • 2 min read
Credit: Public domain News First speakers announced for news:rewired 'in focus' event on newsgathering and verification The first in a new series of half-day events will look at the issue of social media newsgathering and verification skills, tools and best practice By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
Credit: Public domain News BBC Trending: When social media is your patch The Trending team share their challenges working with popular stories on social networks, and how to balance the need to be speedy with getting it right By Catalina Albeanu • 4 min read
News 'I don't regret learning to code for a single second' – Q&A with Elliot Bentley Elliot Bentley, graphics editor at The Wall Street Journal, shares his take on the levels of digital literacy needed in the newsroom today By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
Credit: By jasonahowie on Flickr. Some rights reserved News NPR releases open source social media tools for newsrooms The Lunchbox suite of customisable apps helps social media teams create or tweak images for sharing across networks By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Images_of_money on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Two models to fund fact-checking as ‘a public good' Fact-checking is a public service form of journalism that's going through the same struggles as many other media – monetising and making their projects sustainable By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
Credit: By Kevin Dooley News How PolitiFact handled fact-checking live for the first time PolitiFact plans to live fact-check upcoming US election events, but what has the team learned from their first ever attempt during the State of the Union address? By Catalina Albeanu • 2 min read
Credit: Thinkstock News Debunking photo-fakes: Advice for image verification Fact-checking experts share their insights on misleading images, when they might crop up, the motivations behind it, and how to debunk them By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
