The amount of live video output produced by The Associated Press (AP) increased by 25 per cent last year, to 2,073 live stories and events covered between October and December, compared to 1,605 during the same period in 2014.

Bloomberg picks its favourite graphics of 2015. Put some time aside because this could be a complete time-sink. From the Fifa scandal to the fact that Americans are addicted to trucks, this is deep dive into data and graphic visualisation.

The disruption of television, rise of the podcast and growth of online video are some of the key trends that could mark 2016, digital strategist Nic Newman outlined in his Media, Journalism and Technology Predictions report published today.

Despite a successful career in public radio, Alex Blumberg says he never showed any “entrepreneurial spunk.” That was before he and Matt Lieber launched Gimlet, which has attracted at least 4 million monthly listeners and $1.5 million from investors.

“It’s been a bit surreal watching it all happen, and at times a little bit unbelievable. It takes my breath away at times, but in a lot of ways it makes sense because [the sites] all have a commonality to them, and that is the

Over the past few months I’ve been trying to learn D3.js, the extremely powerful Javascript visualisation library. As a relative newcomer to Javascript (some background in PHP) D3.js has been a challenge. I first started trying to learn D3.js in April 2014 but gave up

Media Picks #11 – 27 February 2015

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New York Times to double the number of stories open for comment on its

Media Picks #10 – 20 February 2015

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The company automating stories for AP now has its sights set on sports journalism
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Media Picks #9 – 13 February 2015

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The news site with no site: NowThis drops website, goes all-in on social
NowThis, which was

Media Picks #8 – 6 February 2015

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