The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 4-10 February

1. Sun editor: Page 3 ‘part of British society’

2. Page 3 campaign grows as Leveson recalls Sun editor

3. Telegraph hires Sky producer James Weeks for video role

4. Heather Mills records 65 hours of ‘harassment’

5. Briefing Media to buy UBM medical and farming titles

6. Police officer cleared over NoW Milly Dowler ‘leak’

7. Tool of the week for journalists – Pinterest

8. ProPublica-inspired global news site launches in Australia

9. EU privacy rulings: ‘huge consequences’ for UK press

10. Ian Edmondson: ‘Culture of bullying’ at News of the World

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The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 21-27 January

1. How to: prepare for a journalism job interview

2. Johann Hari declines invitation to return to Independent

3. News International to launch Sunday version of the Sun on 29 April, sources say

4. A guide to mastering 100wpm shorthand

5. Women’s groups condemn ‘harmful’ stereotypes in media

6. Is your blog in this PR database of 1.3 million blogs?

7. PA editor: Name mistake ‘catastrophic example of human error’

8. Mail Online publisher: ‘If you don’t listen to your users then you’re dead’

9. App of the week for journalists – Flipboard

10. Tool of the week for journalists – Formulists (use it before it disappears)

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The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 14-20 January

1. How to: write a covering letter and CV

2. Slovenia’s national paywall goes up: what the publishers say

3. Ten LinkedIn tips for journalists

4. App of the week for journalists: Tweetbot

5. Express and Star scraps paywall in favour of paid-for apps

6. Tool of the week for journalists – Spool, an Instapaper for video

7. ITV News announces two new ‘specialist editors’

8. Ian Hislop: ‘Statutory regulation is not required’

9. Google-sponsored Data Journalism Awards open to entries

10. Sunday Times editor confirms Gordon Brown ‘blagging’

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The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 7-13 January

1. Mail ‘receives 300 to 400 Pippa Middleton pictures a day’

2. French landmark case: A new dawn for investigative journalism?

3. Slovenia to launch £4-a-month national paywall

4. Tool of the week for journalists – ProPublica’s TimelineSetter

5. Johann Hari to return to Independent in ’4 or 5 weeks’

6. App of the week for journalists: Zite

7. Trinity Mirror to close five offices with 35 redundancies

8. Daily Star editor denies paper has anti-Islamic agenda

9. Taking a closer look at development journalism

10. Why the internet can help save newspapers

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The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 3-6 January

1. Ten things every journalist should know in 2012

2. App of the week for journalists – iSaidWhat?

3. ‘What would you do if Kelvin MacKenzie called you a c***?’ and other memorable job interview questions

4. Daily Mail wins praise for Stephen Lawrence campaign

5. Tool of the week for journalists – The Interviewr

6. Daily Record in consultation with four senior executives

7. News outlets back online licensing body NewsRight

8. Opinions sought on Digital Copyright Exchange proposal

9. Amid protests, Hungary faces US pressure over media regulation

10. NUJ members at Newsquest Essex to ballot over pay

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Merry Christmas from Journalism.co.uk, see you in the new year

Journalism.co.uk will be off from today for the Christmas break. We’ll be back on 3 January.

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all of our readers.

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The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 17-23 December

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2. ‘Privacy is for paedos’: The Leveson inquiry so far, in quotes

3. Tool of the week for journalists – Rippla, for tracking the social ‘ripples’ of news stories

4. Q&A Sky News: 2011, an extraordinary year for news

5. Piers Morgan’s phone ‘hacked by Mirror colleague’

6. Tabloid Girl author explains ‘heightened reality’ tales

7. Dangerous assignment deaths ‘highest on record’

8. App of the week for journalists – iRig Recorder, for recording, trimming and sharing audio

9. Leveson inquiry: Piers Morgan denies hacking allegations

10. NoW whistleblower’s brother: Hacking was ‘routine’ at the Sun

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Journalism.co.uk top 10 stories on Twitter in 2011

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After putting together some lists of the top 10 Twitter news stories of 2011, the top 10 Facebook news stories of 2011 and Journalism.co.uk’s top 10 stories on Facebook in 2011, we’ve compiled a list of the most tweeted Journalism.co.uk news stories and blog posts of the year.

1. Journalists increasingly using social media as news source, finds study 1,250

2. BBC developing new iPhone app for field reporters 911

3. Ten ways journalists can use Google+ 881

4. Julian Assange wins Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism 720

5. Al Jazeera English hits US screens after New York cable deal 508

6. #ijf11: Lessons in data journalism from the New York Times 468

7. How the five journalists with the greatest online influence use social media 367

8. ‘Is there a better way of doing this?’: Johann Hari responds to plagiarism accusations 361

9. #su2011: New online open newsroom a hit for Swedish newspaper 356

10. News of the World to publish final edition this Sunday 318

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Journalism.co.uk’s top 10 stories on Facebook in 2011

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After taking a look at the top 10 Facebook news stories of 2011 and the top 10 Twitter news stories of 2011, we’ve compiled a list of the most shared, liked and commented on Journalism.co.uk news stories and blog posts published in 2011.

1. Julian Assange wins Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (5,268 likes, 1,523 shares, 768 comments)

2. Guardian predicts 1m installs of Facebook app in first month (613 likes, 85 shares, 95 comments)

3. BBC developing new iPhone app for field reporters (98 likes, 172 shares, 80 comments)

4. Daily Mail criticised over Amanda Knox guilty story (53 likes, 86 shares, 138 comments)

5. How to: become a roaming reporter (62 likes, 37 shares, 85 comments)

6. Al Jazeera English hits US screens after New York cable deal (75 likes, 60 shares, 33 comments)

7. ‘Is there a better way of doing this?’: Johann Hari responds to plagiarism accusations (12 likes, 47 shares, 88 comments)

8. Bahrain to sue Independent over ‘defamatory’ articles (99 likes, 31 shares, 2 comments)

9. #jpod: How journalists can best use Facebook pages (58 likes, 53 shares, 4 comments)

10. London riots: Five ways journalists used online tools (40 likes, 64 shares, 10 comments)

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The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 10-16 December

1. I thought McCanns knew about diary, Myler tells court

2 Nick Davies: Everybody accepted Dowler story was true

3. Tool of the week for journalists: Facebook search

4. Guardian: NoW ‘not responsible’ for false hope voicemail deletion

5. Ofcom names 20 cities for local TV licenses

6. Daily Mail owner confirms ‘no mud slinging’ pact with Richard Desmond

7. McCann diary reporter: I thought we had permission

8. Mail: Dowler question was perfectly legitimate inquiry

9. PCC censures Mail Online for Knox verdict report

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