News #Rio2016: 7 more data stories and interactives from the Olympic Games Compare your reaction time and find out more about past winners of the 100m dash with more interactives from Rio By Catalina Albeanu • 4 min read
Credit: Image by armandolobos on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News The Washington Post rolls out automation for the Olympic Games, gearing up for US election coverage Results, alerts for upcoming events, and national medal tallies are automated using a system built in-house called Heliograf By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Fotografiche on Shutterstock News Tool for journalists: Bloom, for curating hyperlocal news personalised to your readers This free tool enables publishers to geotag their articles, allowing readers to filter hyperlocal news stories where they are By Caroline Scott • 2 min read
News How CNN is recreating the #Rio2016 experience for audiences on social media Social producer Masuma Ahuja has been trying out different formats to capture the Olympic Games experience for an international audience By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Vladimir Arndt on Shutterstock News 'We are fearless in experimentation and we move quickly': Facebook Live at CBC News Brodie Fenlon, senior director of digital news, explains what he has found to be the 'golden standard' of livestreaming on Facebook, and how CBC has let the audience lead its development By Caroline Scott • 4 min read
News How mobile reporting skills are becoming part of journalism courses at UK universities Mojo skills are incredibly useful to journalists today – but are students being taught the techniques? By Thalia Fairweather • 3 min read
News How to create animated videos using Quik The free app offers 28 animation styles, so you can automatically make your footage stand out with music, text and transitions By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
News #Rio2016: 7 data stories and interactives from the first week of the Olympic Games How are news outlets making the most of the abundance of data available about the Olympics? By Catalina Albeanu • 4 min read
News How Google's Digital News Initiative is evolving 'A lot of the problems people are trying to solve in the news ecosystem are common across organisations and borders, so we encourage people to be collaborative' By Mădălina Ciobanu • 3 min read
News Inside the Financial Times' special projects strategy, six months on Robin Kwong, the FT's special projects editor, shares an insight into his collaborative work with the newsroom to develop more ambitious editorial initiatives By Mădălina Ciobanu • 4 min read
News Readers perceive question-based headlines more negatively, study shows The report by the Engaging News Project investigated the influence of click bait headlines on readers' expectations of the news story that would follow By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
News Mobile journalism skills help schoolchildren contribute to community news site Cardiff University's Centre for Community Journalism is teaching youngsters the art of storytelling through mobile journalism techniques, enabling them to challenge issues in their area By Caroline Scott • 2 min read
