BBC Arabic: since the revolutions across the Arab world, the audience of the BBC Arabic language service has increased 50 %.

The New York Times has invented a way to filter out abusive commenters on its website by giving 'trusted' status to well-behaved users, via their Facebook account.

The French government puts data from administrative and governmental sources into the public domain.

Supporter of former Zambian minister, currently being tried in relation to large sums of money hidden on his farm, attacked journalists covering his trial.

Using Excel to organise data: it may be one of the most common data handling programs in the world, but journalists could benefit from brushing up on how to use this program.

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Sources: GigaOm, The Guardian, Index On Censorship, Journalismes.info, Poynter