Credit: Image from Pixabay News 'Women on air' discuss the importance of confidence and mentoring to succeed in the media industry 'We're all in our careers because we want to be the best at it and I think all of us would hate the idea that we were given something specifically because we're female' By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
News How the BBC used Yik Yak to get young people to talk politics and mental health 'Don’t underestimate millennials. Just because humour and gossip pervade on chat apps doesn’t mean that’s the only thing young people want to engage on' By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock News Diamond project to launch as media diversity monitoring initiative in the UK Diamond is a collaboration between the Creative Diversity Network and major UK broadcasters, including BBC and Channel 4 By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
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
Credit: By svensson on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News What does the future of the BBC look like as a more diverse and distinctive organisation? As the BBC's current charter expires at the end of 2016, the government has drafted a white paper to outline key changes for the broadcaster's future By Mădălina Ciobanu • 5 min read
Credit: By Roger H Goun on Flickr. Some rights reserved News British journalists are more likely to push ethical boundaries than US reporters, finds new study A comprehensive survey of the ethics and practices of journalists in the UK reveals surprising findings By Caroline Scott • 2 min read
Credit: Image by Marc Ellison. All rights reserved. News Telling the stories of Tanzania’s child brides through a digital graphic novel Photojournalist Marc Ellison explains the making of Safe House, a 'graphic novel 2.0' that mixes illustrations, video and stills By Catalina Albeanu • 4 min read
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
Credit: Image by Maurizio Pesce on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Disrupting the narrative: Telling stories with 360-degree video What do audiences want from immersive news stories – and what works? By Caroline Scott • 6 min read
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
