National Public Radio (NPR) has added a nifty button to its online news articles that lets you download audio content on that item.

Certain features are excluded because of rights issues (for example, stories referring to exclusive music tracks), but this simple addition is a nice cross-over between NPR’s wealth of audio content and its website.

It’s also more flexible as it doesn’t require users to listen to a whole programme and can be downloaded as an MP3 for listening at leisure.

• Social magazine app Flipboard adds audio
• You can now add SoundCloud recordings to Storify
• Independent uses Spotify button to add ‘new angle to music journalism’
• Washington Post Facebook app attracts 350,000 downloads
• App of the week for journalists – VC Audio Pro, a must-have for radio journalists

Freelancing: If you haven’t already, it’s time to invest in a digital recorder that saves to MP3 files. That way you can easily manage an archive of your recordings using software like iTunes. Tipster: John Thompson

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Freelancing: Bills from constant phone interviews costing you a packet? Get Skype: free to call other users; buy credit online for cheap-as-chips calls to landlines; and download a call recorder add-on to make MP3 recordings. Tipster: Oliver Luft

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• Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk: enhance you audio/visual offering with slideshows – quick and easy
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• #Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – advice for using Skype and recording calls
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Gavin O’Reilly, chief operating officer of Independent News and Media and president of WAN, launched a stinging attack on senior media commentators in the UK while speaking at the Society of Editors meeting in Manchester.

Listen here to some of his concerns and other points of his speech:

Failings of media commentators: too much rhetoric, overly simplistic digital vs print approach…

Failures of US print papers, threat of reader apathy biggest threat not internet, real reasons for state of UK market – freesheets and enticements, search engines and ACAP…

• Eric Schmidt – Google resistance to ACAP based on technology
• ACAP answers its critics
• Early problems with ACAP
• UK national newspapers neglecting sitemaps for better search indexing
• #Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – 30 specialist search engines