1. How the sinking of the Titanic was reported
2. NUJ fears jobs ‘massacre’ as five Johnston Press dailies go weekly
3. Sun journalists to be trained in mental health reporting after complaint
4. Advice on securing your first job in media production
5. Tom Watson phone hacking book out this week
6. US local newspaper launches paid-for HTML5 web app
7. App of the week for journalists: Signal
8. Regional Press Awards shortlist unveiled
Tool of the week: Google Follow Your World
What is it? Add a location and Google will notify you every time a new satellite image is added for that location.
How is it of use to journalists? Mark a location and each time Google updates the satellite and aerial imagery in your area of interest, you will be notified.
Think of it as like Google Alerts for mapping information.
Consider the possibilities for digital journalism in having images showing the changes to the Olympics site, an area of coastal erosion or the development (or lack of change) within the Government enterprise zones.
It is a tool that requires patience as it may take months or even years for Google to update the aerial imagery for your area of interest.
The Financial Times has reported that the BBC has officially partnered with AudioBoo to post sound clips from programmes onto its website.
BBC journalists have been using AudioBoo since shortly after its launch in 2009 and the Radio 4 Today programme has providing catch-up audio for some time, getting around 20,000 listens to the 24 “boos” it posts each week, the FT states.
According to the article, the deal will “result in a series of branded BBC channels using AudioBoo, which the BBC hopes will broaden its audience reach worldwide”.
The FT states:
The decision to back such a small home-grown technology company is also a big step for the BBC, which has until now limited its official media partnerships to larger companies, such as Facebook and Twitter.
AudioBoo allows users to record and share up to three minutes of audio using the iPhone app or website. It also offers paid subscriptions for those who want to record and share longer interviews and sounds.
After launching in 2009, London-based AudioBoo gathered a loyal following of journalists and well-known personalities such as Stephen Fry who gave the platform an early boost.
AudioBoo founder and CEO Mark Rock told the FT that the BBC deal “took 18 months and 38 meetings to complete, because it was the first time a large media outlet had given official sanction to his business”.
Curated storytelling tool Storify has partnered with news reader app Pulse.
The move marks Storify’s first syndication deal and sees curated stories by Storify users such as Al Jazeera’s the Stream, the Washington Post and the White House communications team available on the social newsreader app.
Pulse, which is available for the iPad, iPhone, Android, Kindle Fire and Nook, allows readers to chose to add their favourite news providers and feeds giving a personalised reading experience.
A Storified blog post by the company explains how to add your Storify creations to your personalised Pulse app.
You can also see your stories – or any account’s stories – on Pulse by subscribing to the RSS feed at the top of Storify profile pages. Then call the feeds up from Google Reader on Pulse. You’ll be able to see all those accounts’ stories on Pulse from then on.
Economist cartoonist Kal has animated excerpts from the news outlets “punctilious in-house style guide”.
It features wracked sheep, racked (and wracked) brains and Dr Frankenstein and his monster.
It was posted on YouTube a month ago but it is worth a watch if you have not yet seen it.
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2. How the Texas Tribune is making $5K a month from Google microsurveys
3. Cameron, Blair and Brown to appear at Leveson inquiry, reports say
4. Hearst unveils new ‘tablet-friendly’ women’s magazine
5. BBC Breakfast moves to Salford: Early reaction
6. Hacked Off: Motorman data leaks are ‘inevitable’
7. App of the week for journalists: Byword, a great text editor for iPhone/iPad
8. Johnston Press confirms further editorial mergers
9. Investigative video news channel to launch on YouTube
10. How citizen video journalists in Egypt are ‘pushing at traditional journalism’
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The Audit Bureau of Circulation today released audited March circulation figures for national newspapers.
The statistics stated that the Sun on Sunday averaged 2.43 million copies in first full month since launch.
The figures in the searchable database below.
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The Independent has announced that it has added music service Spotify’s new play button to its site which “means we can add a new angle to our music journalism”.
Writing in a blog post, Jack Riley, head of digital audience and content development for the Independent and i, explains that any website can add the new button which allows readers to stream music without leaving the host site.
For the Independent this means we can add a new angle to our music journalism; as well as adding streamable albums to our album reviews (see Alabama Shakes here), we can embed setlists into our live reviews (Kylie) and singles into our weekly charts. We’ll also be using the player to illustrate features; this piece from Nick Hasted on jazz’s influence on pop music (via Radiohead) is a great example of how the player can really add something to the reading experience.
You can see all of the tracks we’ve used the play button on this page which also explains how the button works. We’re tweeting articles featuring the new functionality with the hashtag #listenwithspotify and results for that hashtag from us are displayed on that page.
Citizen journalism news site Blottr is the latest news organisation to release a “frictionless sharing” Facebook app.
Blottr has opted for a Guardian-style app where readers access news and comment without having to leave the social networking site.
The Huffington Post UK, which released an app at the end of February, followed the Independent in promoting social interaction on the news site.
In a release Blottr said:
The app leverages the social functionality Facebook users are already familiar with to automatically discover and highlight Blottr content their friends have read. Through the app, users will also be able to report news and add content directly to the Blottr site.
We want to engage new readers who may not already interact with Blottr. Registered users can now notice Blottr’s content via their friends’ interactions or activity report on their wall.
Blottr founder Adam Baker said in a statement:
This move signifies the importance social media plays in the distribution, discovery and consumption of news content. Our aim is to make consuming and contributing to news-related content as efficient, simple and timely as possible.
The Blottr Facebook app socially connects people with each other through the type of content they consume and makes the discovery of our content much more fluid.