Credit: by FreedomHouse on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Wadah Khanfar: Syrian social media proved vital and accurate Wadah Khanfar spoke about the challenges of reporting on Syria and the need for news outlets to question government policies By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Times and Sunday Times to pull down paywall for Jubilee It is the first time The Times and Sunday Times websites will be free to access since the paywall went up two years ago By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News CNN to appoint new ambassador for iReport in London The appointment is the first made by citizen journalism platform iReport outside the US By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News App of week for journalists: WordPress, now with easy comments moderation V3 of WordPress for iOS has a few handy new features, such as the ability to moderate comments in a simple swipe gesture By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News Guardian wins Data Journalism Award for riot interactive Jury member Peter Barron of Google described the Guardian's interactive as a 'compelling piece of data journalism' By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: Image by Robert Scoble on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Digital news report: 'Mobile strategy is now mandatory' New research revealed at #GEN2012 into how digital technology is affecting news consumption identifies four key areas for revenue growth and emphasises importance of smartphones, video and social media By Paul McNally • 2 min read
News Bundlr shifts to become like Pinterest for curated media Bundlr has added 200 new features - including Storify - as it repositions itself as a top-level resource for curated content around a topic By Daniel Bentley • 3 min read
News New blog tracks 'best practices in digital journalism' Australian academic Lawrie Zion has launched Best Practices, a blog he hopes will 'open up conversations about ethics and excellence' in digital journalism By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News TBIJ wins Amnesty digital media award Marie Colvin won a posthumous award for her reporting from Syria with her mother paying tribute in a video tribute message By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News Open source liveblogging tool set to launch The new tool will be free to use, with journalists from the BBC, the Guardian, Le Monde, Voralberger Nachrichten and Zeit Online contributing to its design By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News Guardian data content reached 1m users a month for past year The Guardian's Datablog and Datastore reached two milestones in the past month: clocking up just over 1 million users a month on average for the past year as well as its third anniversary By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Guardian's n0tice launches iPhone app for geotagged news Online noticeboard n0tice launches new iPhone app to encourage citizen journalists to share news and readers to find local stories and events By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
