Credit: By PeterJBellis on Flickr News Coventry Telegraph web traffic rises 360% in 6 months Traffic to the Trinity Mirror site saw the biggest leap in audience figures from December 2013 to June 2014 of all the sites audited in the ABC regional multiplatform report, released today By Abigail Edge • 3 min read
News Screencast: using RiteTag for hashtag and Twitter analytics This (mostly) free tool allows users to see which hashtags are popular, which are overused and what other options might be more relevant to a tweet By Catalina Albeanu • 2 min read
Credit: By coche on Flickr. Some rights reserved News How FT is experimenting with aggregation service FT Antenna gathers content from Twitter to keep FT readers up to date with the latest top stories on social media By Catalina Albeanu • 2 min read
Credit: Image by FunGi_ on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News As it happened: Q&A on getting into music journalism Journalism.co.uk hosted a live Q&A on getting into music journalism with panelists from the NME, Noisey and Time Out. By Abigail Edge • 2 min read
Credit: By Mark Fischer on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News ABCs: Mirror sees 30% traffic increase in July All outlets but one audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulation saw month-on-month increases in July By Abigail Edge • 2 min read
Credit: Image from Infoactive . News 'Data+Design': free ebook released for data visualisation More than 50 volunteers worked on a free ebook to explain visualising and working with data to those with no specialised training By Catalina Albeanu • 2 min read
Credit: By James Cridland on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Filling the gaps: Crowdfunded reporting in Ferguson A groundswell of support for independent reporting from protests over the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by police has led Beacon Reader to directly connect journalists and readers in the area By Alastair Reid • 5 min read
News Screencast: How to create interest lists on Facebook This short video shows how to create and follow Facebook interest lists to organise posts around different topics By Abigail Edge • 2 min read
Credit: Image by Thinkstock News How Deca is taking a collaborative approach to longform An international co-operative of award-winning journalists are working together to tell the stories they feel are most important, despite most having never met in person By Abigail Edge • 5 min read
Credit: By wwarby on Flickr. Some rights reserved News Why constructive journalism can help engage the audience Studies show that stories which explore solutions to problems rather than just the problems themselves prompt audiences to engage with the news and share content By Catalina Albeanu • 4 min read
Credit: By on Lonpicman on Wikimedia . News How The Marshall Project will illuminate US justice system Editor-in-chief Bill Keller and managing editor for digital Gabriel Dance talk storytelling, interactives and building their own CMS at the non-profit start up By Alastair Reid • 6 min read
Credit: Image from BuzzFeed.com News Why BuzzFeed is expanding with new Distributed division BuzzFeed plans to expand in the social web and build an audience in a space where content and social networking meet By Catalina Albeanu • 3 min read
