How-To
How to use Canva to create stunning social media infographics
Here's a step-by-step guide on using Canva's templates and resources to create your own infographics.
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News
Five of the best coronavirus trackers
If you’d never heard of a tracker or a dashboard before the Coronavirus pandemic you certainly will have now. Both national governments and publications have produced their own trackers to varying degrees of success. Interhacktives takes a look at 5 of the most googled Coronavirus trackers. Financial Times The
Features
Five digital journalists share their favourite go-to recipes
Emma Magnus talks to five digital journalists about the recipes behind their work.
Audience & Social
Start a news brand on social
Which social network is the one to launch on and prioritise when you start a news brand? Cal Marius explores vertical-by-vertical.
News
How did they do that: Coronavirus tracker edition
Joely Santa Cruz speaks to Michael Simmons about how he built his Edinburgh Coronavirus Data website.
Audience & Social
Five things digital journalists can learn about search from Depop sellers
Top of Depops There's a lot that digital journalists can learn from Depop's top sellers. With over 15 million users in 147 different countries, Depop has boomed throughout the pandemic. Depop is a social “fashion marketplace app”, encouraging greater sustainability in fashion as well as ‘selling
Audience & Social
How South Asian women are using Instagram to amplify their voices
Anushka Suharu speaks to the founders of Pardesi, Boss Betis and British Bindi about how South Asian women are using Instagram to amplify their voices
Tips
Five of the best media industry newsletters
The media industry is home to many valuable newsletters that share useful links and resources with their readers. Here are five of the best.
Audience & Social
How the new Instagram feature ‘Guides’ can benefit journalists? — Review
In the middle of November Instagram has launched Guides, a new feature for publishing digest-like articles, recommendations and step-by-step tips within the app. This format was first introduced in May, but was initially available only for a small number of influencers who were keen to create guides
Data
10 not so great data visualisations
Data Visualisation is a great way to covey data to readers but sometimes visualisation can go wrong or be very misleading. If you want to get started but don't know how, take a look at this article. Once you've got to grips with the basics, you&
Data
Top 5 Data Visualisation Tools for Data Journalists
New to journalism and keen on data? Here's a list of the top 5 free visualisation tools to create stunning visual data.
Audience & Social
Why OnlyFans is the journalist's new hustle
30 million paying subscribers use OnlyFans, the digital content platform which was initially geared to sharing adult content, but is rapidly diversifying, now touching the fringes of journalism.