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Tool of the week for journalists: Thinglink, for interactive images
Tool of the week: Thinglink What is it? A tool to allow you to add rich media, such as YouTube videos, SoundCloud recordings and Wikipedia entries to photographs. How is it of use to journalists? Take...
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Tweetbot partners with Storify to allow Twitter conversation sharing
Tweetbot, a Twitter client app for iOS and a previous Journalism.co.uk app of the week, has added Storify integration. Users of the iPhone and iPad Tweetbot app can now easily Storify a conversation...
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#jpod – How web analytics can provide story leads and new angles
Analytics can give you much more information than just your number of readers. Delve deeper and analytics can also lead to news stories and help shape editorial angles as a story unfolds. In this...
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Social magazine app Flipboard adds audio
Social magazine app Flipboard has added audio, allowing users to listen to a podcast, an interview or music while flipping through the pages of the app. Flipboard is an iPhone and iPad app (soon to be...
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Tool of the week for journalists: Geofeedia, to locate real-time photos,...
Tool of the week: Geofeedia What is it? A tool that allows you to search for a location and find geolocated tweets, photos and videos. How is it of use to journalists? This tool offers potential for...
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Tool of the week for journalists: Transcribe, a Chrome web app that saves time
Tool of the week: Transcribe What is it? Transcribe is a simple Chrome web app that allows you to upload audio and transcribe it without switching between an audio player and a text editing document...
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Bitly launches ‘bitmark’ social bookmarking service
Bitly, the popular link shortener used by the BBC, Independent, Daily Telegraph and many other news websites, has today announced its ‘bitmark’ service. Anyone who uses social bookmarking sites like...
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CoveritLive switches to paid-only service
Popular liveblogging platform CoverItLive has announced the end of its free usage tier, becoming an entirely paid for subscription service. In an email to current subscribers the company wrote:...
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#jpod: Why publishers are ‘excited’ about Windows 8 tablets
Last night Microsoft released a preview of its new Windows 8 operating system. No launch date is set but it is widely rumoured that tablets running Windows 8 will be on sale in the autumn. But what...
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Tool of the week for journalists: Datawrapper, for quick data visualisations
Tool of the week: Datawrapper What is it? A free, easy-to-use data visualisation tool. How is it of use to journalists? At the Guardian Activate Summit on Wednesday (27 June), editor of the Guardian’s...
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Tool of the week for journalists: WolframAlpha
Tool of the week: WolframAlpha What is it? WolframAlpha bills itself as “a computational knowledge engine”. It is like a search engine but where search engines “index web pages, then look for textual...
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Tool of the week for journalists: Cowbird, for unedited storytelling
Tool of the week: Cowbird What is it? Cowbird allows people to tell multimedia stories, incorporating text, photos, sound, subtitles, roles, relationships, maps, tags, timelines, dedications, and...
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#Tip of the day for journalists: Take a look at this list of tech and tools
The Web Journalist Blog has a “quite random selection of tools and technology to inspire, invoke and maybe innovate” web journalism. It’s worth taking a look at the handy list of tools to see how many...
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Tool of the week for journalists: Story Wheel, for easy audio slideshows
Tool of the week: Story Wheel What is it? An easy audio slideshow tool using Instagram and SoundCloud How is it of use to journalists? If you are a journalist who regularly uses Instagram to share...
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Tool of the week for journalists: Taggstar, for adding links to your pictures
Tool of the week: Taggstar What is it? A tool to add links so when readers hover over a photo they see links to video, audio, text, maps, retailers and more. How is it of use to journalists? Taggstar...
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#Tip: Tools for creating visualisations of data
By Jorge Fran Ganillo on Flickr. Some rights reserved. The website for .net magazine has posted a list of 20 tools and platforms journalists may find useful when looking to visualise data. The list...
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#Tip: Some useful Chrome extensions for reporters
Image by stshank on Flickr. Some rights reserved. The ever-useful 10,000 Words blog has produced a collection of five Chrome extensions which could prove helpful for journalists to install, both for...
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#Tip: Try storytelling tool Cowbird – which now has embed option
Image by miheco on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Cowbird has released a new feature that allows you to embed a single story into a blog post or news story. Cowbird is a storytelling tool which allows...
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#Tip: A great list of free tools for digital journalism
Image by JM. Some rights reserved. Journalists have a wealth of free tools available to them. And US journalist Danny Sanchez has compiled a really handy list on his blog, Journalistopia. There are...
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#Tip: Try this Embed Responsively tool
Image by Sean MacEntee on Flickr. Some rights reserved If your site is responsive, here’s a potentially useful tool. Embed Responsively “helps build responsive embed codes for embedding rich...
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