Credit: By Yuri Samoilov on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News How On The Wight is experimenting with automation in news The Isle of Wight local publisher built a program to automate unemployment reports and hopes to expand it to cover other data sets in the future By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
Credit: By The U.S. Army on Flickr. Some rights reserved News A year after James Foley: Safety advice for conflict reporters Journalists are in greater danger in conflict zones than ever before, so what can reporters and news organisations do to make sure they are safe? By Alastair Reid • 7 min read
Credit: Mashable on Twitter News Mashable: Building media for the digital generation At the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit in New York, Mashable's Mike Kriak explained why publishers need to 'find those digital needles in the haystack' By Abigail Edge • 3 min read
Credit: Screengrab from TheGuardian.com News New Guardian US database tracks deaths caused by police The Counted aims to become a resource for reporters and researchers, and an interactive project between the Guardian and its readers By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
Credit: David Jones/PA News Inside the Sky News 'Royal Baby Watch' Brunel University journalism student Sana Sarwar reports from the Sky newsroom on how the broadcaster is breaking news of the latest Royal birth By Sana Sarwar • 3 min read
Credit: Image by owenwbrown on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Facebook at 10: Tips and tools for journalists As the world's biggest social network reaches its tenth birthday, here are 10 ways journalists can use Facebook to reach readers, find sources and better connect with their audience By Alastair Reid • 8 min read
News How a radio station used social to spark a diversity debate Swedish Public Radio's 'dare to speak Finnish' campaign, which crowdsourced responses from Finns living in Sweden, proved emotive By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock News Selected news outlets get a feed of public Facebook posts In the same way as broadcasters and websites can display tweets to show reaction to a particular news story, seven news organisations now have access to a feed of public Facebook posts By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock News New site measures gender balance of homepage bylines WhoWritesFor.com, created by a recent graduate, takes daily totals of homepage bylines written by men and women and archives them for analysis By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
News Ten top tips for journalists using Facebook Vadim Lavrusik, journalism programme manager at Facebook, shares advice on how to get the most out of the platform and some of its latest features By Jess Denham • 2 min read
Credit: By KOMUnews on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Data and UGC tools receive prototype funding The projects to receive backing from the Knight Foundation's prototype fund include plans for platforms to work with crime data, user-generated content and measure gender representation By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News How researchers are using eye-tracking to discover iPad news engagement US journalism organisation Poynter shared further findings this week on its research, which included tracking how 36 users engaged with news product prototypes on an iPad By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
