Argentinian news outlet La Nacion has been recognised for its data journalismby a number of organisations in recent years, producing stories that hold the government to account in a country where open access to information is limited. Speaking at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia this week, Angelica Peralta Ramos, La Nacion Data project leader, told delegates of the organisation's "initiative to develop data journalism and contribute to opening data".

Readers' editor Chris Elliott has highlighted a number of suspicious comments which have emerged on stories about the Ukraine conflict in recent months. Former Russia correspondent Luke Harding, who is now based in Ukraine after being expelled from Russia in 2011, has been labelled a "Russian hater" and appears to have been targeted.

Mills & Boon is claiming to be turning "traditional storytelling ... on its head" with the launch of an online story world which stitches together more than 800 pieces of digital content in multiple formats in what it says is a global first. The romance publisher - whose parent Harlequin has just been acquired by News Corp - has created a fictional online hotel, The Chatsfield, as the jumping off point for a host of different storylines.

The Guardian's chief digital officer, Tanya Cordrey, led the media group's migration from a UK to global domain last year and oversaw the recruitment of over one hundred people in the process. However, she has said that the general number of women applying for tech and engineering roles is depressing and that there are still a lot of myths and misconceptions that need to be broken down.

Scarlet Magazine was initially a print magazine started in November 2004 which ceased publication in June 2010, a little over a year after it was sold by Blaze Publishing to Trojan Publishing. The magazine was billed as "Cosmo's sexier, raunchier, cooler younger sister".

From a business perspective, the Financial Times is one of the most successful traditional newspapers in the world in the transition to digital. The specifics - generously shared by FT managing director Rob Grimshaw - are instructive for any publisher, media manager or executive. There are a number of ways to quantify the FT's success. An impressive 46 percent of the publication's revenue comes from the digital side.

Eliot Higgins is a blogger - also known as Brown Moses - who has become a leading source of information about Syria, and his success shows how anyone with the right motivation can train themselves to perform many of the key functions we associate with being a journalist.

The Sunday Herald has become the first newspaper publicly to back a Yes vote in the Scottish independence referendum. The front page of the weekly title states "Sunday Herald says Yes" and is decorated with a giant thistle and saltires in a design by artist and writer Alasdair Gray, who also supports independence.

Data journalism can be a daunting task for some, so Steve Doig, professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, ran through the first steps for delegates at the International Journalism Festival recently. Data is everywhere now, he said, and most social issues or human interest stories will have some data tied to it somewhere. Stories on local beats may have patterns, so it is worth looking at the areas you are used to covering to spot them.

The crowdsourced app-testing outfit uTest, which raised a cool $43 million in Series E funding back in January, has rebranded as Applause. And on top of that, it's bought a German competitor, Testhub. Given the widespread, hard-to-predict user base that mobile apps can attain, not to mention the variety of devices out there, quality assurance testing can certainly benefit from the crowdsourcing approach.