Links on Twitter: Redesigning search at The Guardian, bylines on Google News, BBC explains politics with chocolate cake

Before remaking its search function, The Guardian studied how readers use it: largely, to navigate the site http://tr.im/p2Mm »

Is this the first academic paper on retweeting? http://tr.im/p0oU (PDF) It’s interesting! »

Google News now supports bylines, so you can search or create a feed of stories by individual reporters http://tr.im/p6TS »

Five things newspapers could learn from the 1980s arcade game “Paperboy” http://tr.im/p32M (via @GinaMChen) »

AP’s social media rules hold staffers responsible for content posted on their Facebook profiles by others http://tr.im/p6Pq »

Making the news more palatable: BBC explains European Union politics with chocolate cake http://tr.im/p7fa »

Kelly Bjorklund and Simon J. Smith

Evidence suggests Russia has been deliberately targeting journalists in Ukraine — a war crime

“It is essential — for us all — that the protections afforded to journalists under international law are scrupulously upheld, and those responsible for their deaths are caught and face the consequences.”

Sarah Scire

A paywall? Not NPR’s style. A new pop-up asks for donations anyway

“I find it counterproductive to take a cynical view on tactics that help keep high-quality journalism freely accessible to all Americans.”

Mark Schapiro

The story of InterNation, (maybe) the world’s first investigative journalism network

Long before the Panama Papers and other high-profile international projects, a global network of investigative journalists collaborated over snail mail.