News New BBC guidelines incorporate social media, user-generated content New edition of editorial guidelines incorporates BBC Online content and includes new advice on the use of social media and user-generated content By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Head of Czech hyperlocal project given just days to close entire operation Roman Gallo resigned at the end of September after being told shut down Nase Adresa and the project's state-of-the-art training centre By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News #WEFHamburg: Crowd-funded news site Spot.us is sticking to startup roots, says founder David Cohn is slowly weaning his startup off the grant money won in 2008's Knight News Challenge and building up other revenue streams By Laura Oliver • 4 min read
News #WEFHamburg: One in five journalists lacks 'essential' multimedia skills, suggests Poynter research New research by the institute suggests news organisations need to do more to motivate staff in need of training By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Significant advantage to advertising on content shared by social media, study suggests According to CNN research, people are 20 per cent more likely to recommend brands advertised around shared content By Joel Gunter • 1 min read
News #WEFHamburg: Paywall will not remove NYT from 'online conversation', says CEO New York Times Company CEO Janet Robinson says first click free strategy will keep paper in 'open web eco system' By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News #WEFHamburg: We need to reinvent not repurpose for tablets, says innovation group Presenting it's World Report today, Innovation International Media Group unveiled its own prototype concept for the tablet platform By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
News Freelance journalist appointed 'practitioner in residence' at Bournemouth University Jake Wallis Simons, who writes regular features for the Times, will share skills with journalism and communications students By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News Press freedom groups warn of rising trend as another journalist killed in Iraq Freelance cameraman Tahrir Kadhim Jawad was killed yesterday by a bomb explosion believed to have been caused by a device attached to his car By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News Brighton sport journalism graduate wins Sun columnist competition Lee Price, 21, has won the first Column Idol competition, organised by the Media Trust and the Sun By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News Reuters takes gold in US investigative business journalism awards Murray Waas' report on a health insurer was trying to cancel the policies of cancer sufferers won $5,000 By Rachel Bartlett • 1 min read
News Dominic Feltham named chief operating officer at RBI UK Feltham, who joined RBI in 1991 according to the publisher's website, was previously managing director By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
