Credit: By Mark Fischer on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Metro website traffic up 125% year-on-year in September According to the latest ABC results, Metro recorded a 32 per cent rise in monthly traffic month-on-month in September, to just under 16.8 million By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
Credit: Image by jsawkins on Flickr. Some rights reserved News News video contest for aspiring journalists launched by AP The new contest, which is being run in partnership with Journalism.co.uk, aims 'to find the best young journalists in the UK' By Journalism.co.uk • 2 min read
Credit: By Ivy Dawned on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News Leading panel discusses future of investigative journalism Libel laws, Leveson proposals, funding and editorial nerve are key factors in fate of investigative journalism, says panel By Alastair Reid • 5 min read
News How news sites are boosting 'stickiness' with personalisation A look at how and why news outlets are offering personalisation across digital platforms, as well as some of the lessons and challenges to consider By Rachel Bartlett • 13 min read
Credit: Thinkstock News How the Washington Post's Truth Teller wants to 'change the political discourse' As the Post's Truth Teller platform reaches the end of public beta, it looks to future potential uses: local partnerships, UGC apps and an international, white-label product By Alastair Reid • 4 min read
Credit: Screenshot from thesundaytimes.com News The Times building 'suite of tools' for multimedia stories 'My Year with Malala', a long-form multimedia article, is the first to be produced using the first iteration of tools By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
News Tool for journalists: Jeffrey's Exif Viewer, for verifying images A free online tool for seeing the data on when and where a photo was taken By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
Credit: Thinkstock News Is your publication a 'front door' or 'side door' site? A look at how audiences arrive at news sites, including advice from Zach Seward, senior editor of 'side door' site Quartz, which focuses on traffic from social By Sarah Marshall • 7 min read
Credit: Image by Mark Hakansson News Report details global trends in mobile, video and social The Global Media Trends Book, published by the European Publishers Council, draws on more than 500 datasets to analyse and predict global trends in digital media By Alastair Reid • 3 min read
Credit: By Argenberg on Flickr. Some rights reserved News How entrepreneurial journalism is building a local voice in Egypt Mandara Online, an Egyptian NGO, acts as a portal for news and content from across rural and disconnected Upper Egypt By Alastair Reid • 5 min read
Credit: By Robert Scoble on Flickr. Some rights reserved . News New Google site highlights journalism tools on offer The new site outlines the different ways journalists can make best use of Google's tools, and features links to industry use cases By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
Credit: Image by eldh on Flickr. Some rights reserved News News site study: 33% of Twitter referrals return within a week Return rate: New study by analytics platform Chartbeat also finds 80 per cent of homepage readers return to a news site that week By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
