The BBC is in the process of redesigning its flagship website to take into account readers changing habits — in particular, an increasing preference to swipe for content as a result of the rise of touch-screen smartphones and tablets. Content publishers are increasingly looking at the tablet...
Twitter is beginning for the first time this week to sell political advertising, in an attempt to capitalize on the upcoming election cycle and the key role Twitter is already playing as part of the national political conversation, Politico reports. "We've had five years to watch and observe how...
Discovering and reading the news is now an inherently social experience, and more and more people are getting their news directly through their friends via social media. The Wall Street Journal has launched a new social news sharing application on Facebook that attempts to take advantage of this...
Augmented reality app Blippar is partnering with Dublin newspaper Metro Herald and local TV show FYI to launch what it's calling "the world's first fully augmented reality newspaper". The Next Web reports: Throughout this week, Metro Herald will be producing five 'smart editions' of its newspaper,...
Hyperlocal journalism has long been seen as a force for good, a way for people who live in places without traditional media coverage to be their own watchdogs, reporting on the issues that matter to them. But what if those issues turn out to be nasty rumors about who's sleeping around and who's...
Consultant Jeff Bullas has pulled together a great list of 20 social media statistics, ranging from how many minutes are spent each month on Facebook (700 billion) to how many articles appear on Wikipedia (17 million). Here is the list (Jeff’s original blog post also includes a great graphic...
