1. Ten things every journalist should know in 2012
2. App of the week for journalists – iSaidWhat?
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
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1. Ten things every journalist should know in 2012
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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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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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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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
10. Tony Maddox, CNN: is the most demanding year we can remember
1. Top 10 Facebook news stories of 2011
2. Express & Star publisher announces up to 50 job cuts
3. Lebedev and Kelner launch Journalism Foundation
4. Top 20 most clicked news stories on Facebook in 2011
5. Five tips for writing an effective press release
6. Tool of the week for journalists – Buffer, for scheduling tweets
7. Top 10 Twitter news stories of 2011
8. Trinity Mirror merger sees creation of Media Scotland
9. Media release: Reuters announces global extension of Journalism Trainee Program
10. Guardian study finds just 22.6% of journalists are female
1. Assange accuses editors of being ‘corrupted’ by power
2. Google launches data journalism awards with GEN
3. Guardian’s Facebook app delivering 1m extra hits a day
4. Leveson inquiry: Guido Fawkes called after Campbell leak
5. Paul McMullan defends Milly Dowler phone hacking
6. ‘Scared’ governments pressured Al Jazeera, says former director
7. Fawkes removes Campbell evidence following order
8. Leveson inquiry debates Guido Fawkes leak
1. Mail titles hit back at Grant over ‘mendacious smears’
2. Ten things every freelance journalist should know
3. Sky News faces contempt charge over kidnap coverage
4. How to: best post news on Twitter and Facebook
5. Steve Coogan claims Andy Coulson set up ‘sociopathic sting’
6. Tips for freelance journalists on National Freelancers’ Day
7. Mother of Hugh Grant’s baby: press made life ‘unbearable’
8. Guardian apologises to Sun for Leveson doorstepping claim
9. Max Mosley: Press had ‘no human feeling at all’
10. Syrian cameraman ‘mutilated and killed following arrest’
1. Stephen Lawrence judge refers Spectator over possible contempt
2. ‘Wherever there was news, we went’: Libya’s ‘A-Team’ fixers on getting the story out
3. How to: get noticed by journalists
4. Ten free apps in the Chrome web store that journalists should know about
5. Phone hacking: Tom Watson attacks BBC over coverage
6. More than 50 Trinity Mirror jobs under threat in Midlands
7. Coverage of Libyan conflict dominates Rory Peck Awards
8. Rippla, a site to monitor the social media ‘ripples’ of news stories, launches