Yahoo has bought blogging giant Tumblr for a reported $1.1bn. In her biggest acquisition since taking over, Yahoo’s chief executive Marissa Mayer has promised ‘not to screw it up’. The internet seems divided on what ...

The Local Council Elections results are still coming in and the big story is that UKIP has gained seats. Unsurprisingly, this has increased the social media conversation around the party, boosting its online profile. As ...

Vuelio data shows that women occupy 35% of editor positions at Britain’s largest newspapers. The FT Weekend Magazine’s Sue Matthias says female journalists need more role models. A statistical analysis of Vuelio’s data reveals that of ...

According to CisionPoint’s Media Database 35% of editors at national daily newspapers are female. Of the 12 dailies, the Guardian and the Daily Express have the smallest gender gap, with 40% and 42% female editors ...

Once again Margaret Thatcher has dominated social media and Twitter’s trending topics. Her funeral, which was held yesterday morning, was unsurprisingly the talking point of the day.  Described by many as a marmite figure (including ...

Justin Bieber may be the most followed individual on Twitter (or he may not) but apparently he’s not a fan of Spider-Man as he hasn’t seemed to have grasped: ‘With great power comes great responsibility’. ...

It’s social media Friday once again and today we’re measuring mentions of the Masters 2013. A hotly anticipated tournament, the Masters started yesterday and will come to a conclusion this Sunday. In the build-up to ...

Google has launched a new rendering engine called Blink as a fork of the ever-popular WebKit (reports wish-he-was-a-geek Jake O’Neill). Once again Google and Apple are diverging with this key strategic development in the battle ...

Kelvin MacKenzie, ex-editor of The Sun and current columnist for the Daily Mail, is having a bad week. On 4 April, his new column appeared on the Telegraph’s website invariably insulting teachers, the government, Masterchef, ...

With an estimated audience of between 500 and 600 million people, the Grand National is surely one of the biggest sporting events of the year. Often even attracting non-betting people to have a flutter, the ...

With an online paywall protecting its content, can The Press Awards hauled in by The Times last night be seen as recognition of its business model as much as anything else? Scooping Newspaper of the ...

Over 500 million people have a Twitter account, more than one billion people use Facebook and owning a smartphone is becoming a necessity. How has moving our lives ‘online’ changed the way in which we ...

The Global Social Journalism Study 2012 is available to download. The study is created in partnership with Canterbury Christ Church University. Dr Ágnes Gulyás and Kristine Pole explain the study, their views on journalism and social ...

The annual celebrity jungle adventure that is ITV’s other reality show is in full swing. With one celebrity leaving on medical grounds, three being evicted due to the public’s vote and a third losing a ...

Friday saw the release of the 23rd official [we don’t include Never Say Never Again or the ‘original’ Casino Royale] James Bond outing in Skyfall. Needless to say, there was a great deal of excitement ...

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Last week I had the pleasure to be part of Cision’s Social Journalism 2012 Webinar. Following the presentation we received a number of questions and comments about the UK Social Journalism Study 2012. Below I ...

The circulation and readership figures of magazines are vital for their advertisers and ultimately their survival. ‘Digital dimes’ do not currently add up to ‘print dollars’ but the overheads of running a digital publication are ...

Friday 10 September saw Canterbury Christ Church University host the Social Media, Journalism and Communication Practitioners International Symposium. The day’s schedule brought together journalists, social media experts and academics to share ideas and presentations on ...

For the last couple of months we have been tracking social media mentions for adidas and Nike, looking at how the brands of a sponsor and a non-sponsor have been affected by the Olympic Games. Our ...