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5 things to know if you’re a growing food blogger in our hungry Instagram community
Looking to join or already part of the bandwagon of food bloggers on Instagram? Here's everything you need to know!
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The Forgotten War in Afghanistan
While the world has been transfixed by the war on ISIS, the US have been intensifying the war in Afghanistan in the shadows. 2018 saw the US drop more bombs than in the last 10 years, the highest civilian casualty rates since the war began and airstrikes spread geographically across
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Landed your first social/audience role? Here's what you need to know.
Starting your first social media role? Here's some top tips on how to navigate the industry like a pro.
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The mobile editing app you need right now
As on-the-move journalism becomes more important for storytelling, dozens of simple photo and video editing apps are available as phone or tablet apps. But many of them have limited functionality, lacking the depth and features found in professional editing programmes. LumaFusion is a multitrack video editor with a
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Who to follow: Keeping an eye out for leading women in digital journalism
Women are tremendously underrepresented in digital journalism. Here's a list of leading women in the industry to look out for!
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How local news organisations engage communities with social media
Social media is often viewed as the enemy of local news and for good reason: sites such as Facebook benefit enormously from being able to share journalism for free on their platform, sucking up advertising money that would previously have gone to news organisations themselves. Yet while the internet has
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3 Tips for Producing Vertical Video Content
If you’ve touched your mobile phone today you were most likely holding it vertically. But that’s no surprise since research has shown we hold our phones in portrait mode for around 94% of the time. Unsurprisingly, our behaviour has not gone unnoticed by Silicon Valley tech giants. Snapchat,
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Going Viral with Brexit and Mr. Blobby – interview with the BBC's Chris Mason
The BBC’s Political Correspondent Chris Mason tells us about the Mr Blobby incident and going viral.
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5 tips to create an engaging news Instagram story
With two-thirds of Americans getting their news via social media, it is clear that social media is rapidly continuing to grow. This trend means that newsrooms and news publications are putting their focus and resources into platforms like Instagram to share the news with their followers in an quick
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Quiz: What kind of journalist should you be?
Data journalist, foreign correspondent or social media editor? Take this quiz to find out which discipline of journalism suits you!
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A journalist's guide to the best encryption tools
Navigating the web safely in an age of data mining and state monitoring is becoming harder and harder, but there are tools out there that make it easier.
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5 editing apps for Instagram that you need to be using
There are 200+ million users visiting at least one business Instagram account a day, according to Instagram. And as Instagram is a strictly visual platform, the content you create needs to be visually up to par with the millions of other users. Here are 5 editing apps you need to