Here’s a round-up of some of the latest industry developments, Operation Elvedon, cool tools and a date for your diary…
Data skills are essential for any journalist nowadays, and if you’re not so confident with numbers it’s never too late to start learning. Check out journalism.co.uk’s full report.
Apple Watch is highlighting the need for shorter news as screen sizes shrink, says Emily Bell on Media Guardian. How do we create content for wearable devices? The New York Times also has a view on wearables.
Ground Signal is a mapping tool which allows you track all social media activity which is geo-located within an area you define. David Higgerson has the details.
The fallout from the Operation Elvedon trials continues – Press Gazette has the latest in a dramatic week for journalism, including a demand that ‘journalism should never again be subject to such an appalling attack’.
Date for your diary: The next Digital Editors Network meeting on June 9th will look at new digital platforms for news – but will also explore how innovative media organisations are grappling with and rethinking the news experiences they create there. Which new formats work best now? What are innovators planning for next?
The future of journalism and mobile – a video recorded at the rec ent Mobile Journalism Conference MoJoCon in Dublin:
And check out Rebecca Whittington’s excellent write-up of MOJO Con.
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