News Financial Times clocks up 1m followers on Google+ The FT has more followers on Google+ than the New York Times, Guardian, Independent, Daily Mail, Telegraph and Times combined By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News Why NYT is bringing BuzzFeed on board for convention coverage Why the New York Times is partnering with social news outlet BuzzFeed to offer 'expanded' video coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News Economist: Digital-only subscriptions up more than 50% More than three times the number of print subscribers are also now reading the newspaper on a digital device weekly, according to the annual report By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Why local news site Wrexham.com is 'quietly confident' for the future A look inside local news site Wrexham.com, which first launched just less than a year ago and recently moved into its first offices and took on a full-time journalist By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News Twitter rolls out expanded tweets with partner news outlets Partner websites said to include the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and Der Spiegel Online By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News The Times launches 'experimental Tumblr page' for Opinion The Times today announced it had launched the platform to showcase additional work from its columnists along with interesting photos, links and video By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News Twitter appoints @marksluckie to journalism liaison role The founder of 10,000 Words and current social media editor for the Washington Post will take up the role later this month By Rachel McAthy • 1 min read
News App of the week for journalists: CoveritLive Liveblogging app CoveritLive is this week's app of the week By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News News outlets given 'social front pages' using new RebelMouse platform RebelMouse, which curates and publishes a user's social media activity and content shared, was set up by former Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News Social ebook platform Readmill targets news publishers Readmill, which describes itself as 'an online book club, with some extras on top', launches new features aimed at independent publishers, including news outlets with ebooks By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News Storify curation tool Storination invites new users New top level creation tool Storination allows digital journalists to create a storyboard of Storify stories around a topic By Sarah Marshall • 1 min read
News Study: Half of news articles shared on Twitter are BBC News stories A survey of 150k articles from 10 news outlets finds BBC News accounts for 55.9% of articles shared on Twitter By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
