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 TapiF on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Storyful fund project to define best practice for eyewitness media Authors behind the recent Tow Center report on user-generated content aim to establish tools and best practice for the use of eyewitness media By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
News Screencast: creating charts with Datawrapper A video guide to creating charts and graphs with Datawrapper By Alastair Reid • 2 min read
Credit: By Das Fotoimaginarium on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Why Associated Press is focusing on UGC standards and safety Social media and UGC editor for international at AP Fergus Bell explains how the news agency is working to focus attention on the 'standards with which we treat user-generated content' By Rachel McAthy • 6 min read
Credit: By jeromestarkey on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News How the Frontline Club plans to help conflict freelancers By launching the Frontline Freelance Registry, this London-based organisation seeks to provide the 'safety net that staff journalists already have' By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
Credit: by Lewis Whyld/PA Archive/Press Association Images News News outlets urged to feedback on prosecution guidelines The interim guidelines were published in April this year, with a consultation open until 10 July By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News Fleet Street Blues apologises to X-Factor judge Tulisa's PR firm Journalism blog says sorry for post on 'PR ethics' which could have wrongly implied that agent had 'the aim of deliberately misleading the public' By Paul McNally • 1 min read
Credit: Lewis Whyld/PA News Assange slams PCC in evidence to Leveson inquiry Wikileaks founder Julian Assange claims PCC showed a 'reluctance to act and to adhere to its own guidelines' while he 'suffered extensive libels' By James Chapple • 2 min read
Credit: By Drnantu on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News US magazines agree new guidelines on tablet edition metrics Seven major publishers pledge to use common set of definitions and terms when reporting user data from tablet devices By Paul McNally • 2 min read
News CRA chair: Logging police-press contact risks 'freezing effect' Crime Reporters Association chair John Twomey says officers would cut off their links with the press if Filkin report recommendations were taken up By Paul McNally • 2 min read
Credit: Chris Radburn/PA News BBC apologises to council over 'unfair' Dale Farm report BBC Trust finds that a report on Dale Farm by the One Show breached guidelines on fairness and impartiality By Joel Gunter • 2 min read
Credit: John Thompson. All rights reserved. News Announcing news:rewired - media in motion Journalism.co.uk's next digital journalism conference will look at the use of digital technologies for innovative news production, focusing on social and mobile developments By Journalism.co.uk • 2 min read
