Links on Twitter: Reuters revamps comments, FT to create niche site, Giles to retire

Attention Chicago hackers: you can still register for Media Consortium’s hackathon ($1K prize!) http://nie.mn/9IBfkU

Financial Times spin-off “FC Tilt” to focus on emerging markets and tap online community http://nie.mn/an0gaj

Sydney Morning Herald parent company launches monthly subscription app for news http://nie.mn/aHZdl0

Got a startup idea? Apply for one of @Poynter‘s two new Promise Prizes–$10K each! http://nie.mn/bdy8fQ

Media conference season is upon us, so where’s the focus on mobile media? http://nie.mn/cDdhnH

Forecast says local online advertising in the US will jump 26 percent, up to $20 billion in 2010 http://nie.mn/9LB9Ua

Fearless leader: Congratulations to the Nieman Foundation’s curator Bob Giles on his retirement! You’ll be missed! http://nie.mn/cSi2ET

New Reuters comment process “grants a kind of VIP status” to certain commenters http://nie.mn/cyyPnK

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.