Credit: Photo by Philip Veater on Unsplash News 19 UK news organisations to receive government funding following Cairncross Review As the £2m taxpayer-funded scheme aims to help public service journalism find sustainable business models, we look at how some of the grantees plan to spend the cash By Jacob Granger • 5 min read
Credit: Callum Shaw on Unsplash News How to make news more engaging for younger audiences With the under-35s spending less than eight minutes a week reading news, the media need to rethink the news agendas, change tone of voice and reinvent story formats to win them back By Melissa Spence • 2 min read
News Bangladeshi reporters now have a mobile journalism guide written in their mother tongue To end the era of poorly-translated foreign manuals, this new book by the mobile specialist Jamil Khan teaches local students and citizen journalists to use a smartphone for field reporting By Jacob Granger • 2 min read
Credit: Pixabay News US nonprofit The 19th wants to report on women and policies from a gender viewpoint As men still account for two-thirds of news coverage in the US, this media startup is shaking up its hiring practices to cover under-reported stories and bring women journalists to the fore By Daniel Green • 3 min read
News Daniell Morrisey: How to prepare a killer CV A career coach and head of talent for BBC shows talks about what makes a CV stand out to potential employers By Daniel Green • 6 min read
News What role will branded content play in the future of news? When media organisations and commercial companies work together on stories, it can put experts in the spotlight and offer a new source of revenue - but readers have a right to be wary By Daniel Green • 2 min read
Credit: Neil Perry, Archant. Screenshot from Prince of Wales Road: On patrol with police at Halloween News Archant embraces mobile journalism to cover local news stories Journalists are trained to shoot lots of simple smartphone footage when reporting out in the field to get their stories online faster and attract more viewers when interest is at its peak By Jacob Granger • 2 min read
News IDA, Microsoft’s new AI-powered tool, helps journalists collaborate on large datasets Finding one name in a sea of scanned documents or a video footage takes a lot of legwork. This new tool can speed up the process and supercharge collaborative data investigations By Marcela Kunova • 3 min read
Credit: Photo by Courtney Hedger on Unsplash News 'Lead with the truth, not the controversy': how to report on the 2020 US election As the presidential election approaches, journalists need to better understand information environments to stop the spread of false claims By Daniel Green • 3 min read
Credit: Unsplash News The Times set to launch a radio station to capture new subscribers The publisher is hoping to follow the success of stations like LBC which enjoys an audience of 2.7 million listeners a week By Daniel Green • 2 min read
Credit: Courtesy Shirish Kulkarni News How journalists can help audiences understand the news If I, a TV journalist with 25 years of experience, cannot stomach the news, how do we expect anyone else to? By Shirish Kulkarni • 5 min read
Credit: Flickr: Augmented Reality Comics @ Ars Electronica Center News USA Today uses augmented reality to dive deeper into topical news stories Mobile audiences are spending more than twice as much time with interactive stories compared to regular content on the same topic By Daniel Green • 3 min read
