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
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 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
Credit: Fit to Print News US documentary to highlight stories 'fallen by the wayside' A team of former newspaper staffers in the US have been working on 'Fit to Print' for three years and hope to complete the project by the end of Summer, with a push to secure funding of $10,000 By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News LA Times reporter starts archive of news site front pages Los Angeles Times journalist Ben Welsh's project to capture the front pages of selected news websites on the hour, each hour, has already hit its $5K goal on crowdfunding website Kickstarter By Daniel Bentley • 3 min read
News Straw and O'Donnell challenged over FOI changes Response by Campaign for Freedom of Information to the justice committee 'effectively demolishes some of the evidence previously given', says Save FOI group By Paul McNally • 2 min read
News FT developing Windows 8 app ahead of tablet release Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com: 'When the devices first come to market and people start buying them, one of the first things they are going to find is a Financial Times Windows 8 app' By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
