News BBC Newsbeat website and app to close as part of cost-cutting measures Newsbeat content will continue to cater to young audiences through the main BBC News website, but it will no longer have a standalone destination online By Mădălina Ciobanu • 2 min read
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Credit: By vlad09 on Shutterstock News NPR's visuals team is using an analytics bot to measure if people care about stories 'We'd been playing around with alternative metrics for longer than one and a half years and this idea came out of our questioning of what our mission is, why have a visuals team at a radio organisation?' By Mădălina Ciobanu • 5 min read
Credit: By Geralt on Pixabay. Some rights reserved . News How the virtual reality 'empathy machine' could affect storytelling The documentary is being reinvented for virtual reality, but what challenges does this pose to content creators? By Caroline Scott • 3 min read
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Credit: Image courtesy of Fusion News Distributed news: Inside Fusion's social storytelling team Laura Feinstein, head of social stories at Fusion, gives an insight into the outlet's approach to creating content for Instagram, Vine and Snapchat Discover By Mădălina Ciobanu • 4 min read
News 'You learn by collaborating with colleagues, not by strategising alone' – Q&A with The Economist's Denise Law Denise Law, deputy community editor at The Economist, tells us why it's 'totally acceptable not to have all of the answers' in the digital journalism industry By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
News 'Understanding your audience and having clarity of vision will always matter' – Q&A with Dmitry Shishkin Dmitry Shishkin tells us what his job as digital development editor for BBC World Service has taught him about managing change and innovation in the news industry By Caroline Scott • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock News Learning by making: Experiments in virtual reality from Hackastory As more news organisations are experimenting with virtual reality in news, which elements of VR games or filmmaking can make it into the newsroom? By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
Credit: By gpaumier on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News How news outlets can improve their coverage of the LGBT community What can newsrooms do to include more LGBT voices in their reporting and to ensure their coverage of the community is respectful? By Catalina Albeanu • 2 min read
