The excellent New York Times Lens blog recently displayed a series of photos about China in Africa by Paolo Woods. It's a fascinating document, well worth looking over, This is a big story. And it was the toughest story that the photographer Paolo...

Creating an online newswire: It started with a task I set myself to find information on pirates in Somalia and filter it in a meaningful, but automated way, and send the result out to Twitter and other public facing websites as a kind of niche...

When an article is published in a newspaper, bookmarked on del.icio.us, linked to on Twitter, but deleted from the newspaper website a few hours later, does it still exist? Yes it does.

  I was asked by Laura Oliver to do a Q&A for journalism.co.uk as part of their "Meet the media trainers" series. However, as I recently moved to Kigali, and I can't realistically train for them from here, the Q&A got shelved. Alors, here is the...

faves, originally uploaded by noodlepie. Not so much a training tip as a useful way of "jotting notes down" I often see what look like potentially interesting links posted to Twitter on my phone when I'm on the move. However, I...