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"The latest report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations finds that daily circulation for the nation's newspapers was down 0.2 percent compared to the same period last year. Sunday circulation was up 0.6 percent. There were some notable exceptions. The New York Times reported a 40 percent increase in Monday-Friday circulation, driven by digital subscription packages, with a 28 percent increase in Sunday circulation over the same time last year. The Times now has about 25 percent more digital subscribers during the week than print subscribers. On Sundays, print subscriptions still exceed digital."

From breaking news curation to new revenue models, many an organization put its best digital foot forward. Social media became more tightly integrated into reporting and overall strategy, while mobile app creation and content optimization were no longer a nice-to-have, but a must. These trends are quickly shaping the young and agile web news industry. As journalists redefine themselves with new tools and skill sets, they're reinvigorating a business that just a few years ago was written off as doomed. Here's a look at six moves with the biggest impact on digital journalism this year.

The way we tell stories in print has been mostly the same for some time now. Space constraints and graphic layout have made the narrative flow a broken one. With the advent of digital devices and rich new ways of shaping content, the pressure is on to rethink how we produce and present our stories. Looking into why the broken-narrative experience happens may help us figure out how to prevent it in digital publishing.

this article talks about how journalism is becoming more and more about digital journalism, they want to engage the reader by using multimedia and get them to read more articles.

"Symbolia is a digital magazine whose content is more storyboard than story - a rich blend of illustrations, comics and audio clips that spin a different kind of narrative." When I say "illustrated journalism," I don't just mean pretty pictures with the news. We're talking about integrating long-form, investigative pieces with comics, infographics and other interactive elements to create a very visual news experience unlike anything that's really been tried before. We are basically turning the news into art.

""We are in the second phase of disruption, and I think this job is a great place to think about and participate in some of the ways we go forward," he said. "I think the great digital journalism of our age has yet to be created. The cohort that is at Columbia now is the one that will be making the journalism that is going to shape our democracy: working on mining data sets, creating video that is not 2012, coming up with much more powerful ways of accruing and displaying information.""

Poynter will cultivate and incubate new entrepreneurial media models in the digital space; deepen its understanding of how citizens are consuming news in the digital era; create case studies that analyze and help the public understand the workings of the nontraditional news sector, known as the Fifth Estate, and train those nontraditional journalism practitioners in a variety of journalism areas, including ethics and accuracy.  Poynter, a school dedicated to serving journalism in the interest of democracy, aspires through this project to influence -- for the good of a democratic society -- the news values that are emerging among those who are contributing news and information to this rapidly changing media landscape.

Among the major sectors, only newspapers suffered continued revenue declines last year-an unmistakable sign that the structural economic problems facing newspapers are more severe than those of other media. When the final tallies are in, we estimate 1,000 to 1,500 more newsroom jobs will have been lost-meaning newspaper newsrooms are 30% smaller than in 2000. Beneath all this, however, a more fundamental challenge to journalism became clearer in the last year. The biggest issue ahead may not be lack of audience or even lack of new revenue experiments. It may be that in the digital realm the news industry is no longer in control of its own future. News organizations-old and new-still produce most of the content audiences consume. But each technological advance has added a new layer of complexity-and a new set of players-in connecting that content to consumers and advertisers. In the digital space, the organizations that produce the news increasingly rely on independent networks to sell their ads. They depend on aggregators (such as Google) and social networks (such as Facebook) to bring them a substantial portion of their audience. And now, as news consumption becomes more mobile, news companies must follow the rules of device makers (such as Apple) and software developers (Google again) to deliver their content. Each new platform often requires a new software program. And the new players take a share of the revenue and in many cases also control the audience data.

The Annenberg Innovation Lab, announced Nov. 17 by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, is positioning itself as a kind of MIT Media Lab 2.0, i.e. not just as a showcase for cutting-edge digital tools, but also as "a bridge" to outside businesses that can apply its work directly.

"It's not exactly a newsflash that the newspaper industry has seen better days. But I still found these charts, which I came across in Business Insider's expansive presentation on the future of digital media, striking:"

"We're getting the big stories wrong, over and over again," CBS Evening News anchor and Managing Editor Scott Pelley said at a Quinnipiac University lunch Friday. The first example he gave was one of his own mistakes: Reporting Nancy Lanza was a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School. After the Boston bombings last month, "amateur journalists became digital vigilantes," Pelley said."

"Typically, web content flows from a website into social media and mobile apps. NowThis News, founded last September by veterans of Huffington Post, anchors its content in its mobile apps. Original videos, in digestible lengths and narrated by young voices, stem from iOS and Android apps and flow to a minimal website and the network's social media pages, and through its distribution partnerships. NowThis News has already formed partnerships with BuzzFeed, MSN, Forbes, The Atlantic, Mashable and the Columbia Journalism School. Ed O'Keefe spent 12 years moving up the ranks at ABC, going from desk assistant to executive producer of ABC News Digital, helping to integrate ABC with Yahoo News. He left to join the early version of NowThis News last year, known as Planet Daily, as editor in chief. In a Q&A conducted via phone and email, O'Keefe explained the forward-thinking news operation he's leading. The following is a lightly edited version of that conversation."

"Here are five predictions for how digital media will unfold in 2013:"

"A social media newsroom, the teams of reporters at Storyful monitor and engage with communities on Twitter, YouTube, Google+ and any social media platform on which anyone with an Internet connection can converse. ((Within two years of launching, Storyful began cooperating with some of the biggest news brands in the world, including ABC News, Reuters and the New York Times, and social platforms such as YouTube.(( Sheridan recently spoke with the European Journalism Centre, where this interview originally appeared, about his vision for digital-first journalism and what role outfits like his will play in enabling it."

More than ever, people are using Twitter, Facebook and other social media sources to learn about what's happening in the world as traditional news outlets become increasingly less relevant to the digital generation. But the trend toward Internet and social media-based news - and the accompanying rush to be first to report a story - also comes with pitfalls. Some 50% of news consumers have received "breaking news" via social media, only to find out later it was erroneously reported.

In 2011, the digital revolution entered a new era. The age of mobile, in which people are connected to the web wherever they are, arrived in earnest. More than four in ten American adults now own a smartphone. One in five owns a tablet. New cars are manufactured with internet built in. With more mobility comes deeper immersion into social networking. For news, the new era brings mixed blessings. New research released in this report finds that mobile devices are adding to people's news consumption, strengthening the lure of traditional news brands and providing a boost to long-form journalism. Eight in ten who get news on smartphones or tablets, for instance, get news on conventional computers as well. People are taking advantage, in other words, of having easier access to news throughout the day - in their pocket, on their desks and in their laps. At the same time, a more fundamental challenge that we identified in this report last year has intensified - the extent to which technology intermediaries now control the future of news.

"The Future of News" is a groundbreaking 10-part series for public television where the best minds in traditional and new media meet to discuss the role of a free press in an ever-changing digital democracy. Watch video clips from the series and get links to discussion topics.

Imagine being able to get live news updates from one of the top cable news network on your PC, iPhone or iPad in beautiful HD quality. That day is coming soon, as earlier this week, CNN demoed its new TV Everywhere video offerings to an audience at SXSW. During the conference, CNN Digital General Manager KC Estenson showed off high-quality video and multiplatform capabilities that will enable viewers to watch customized video streams wherever they are and on whichever devices they choose. The only catch? To do so you have to be a pay TV subscriber with CNN as part of your video package.

The migration of audiences toward digital news advanced to a new level in 2011 and early 2012, the era of mobile and multidigital devices.  More than three-quarters of U.S. adults own laptop or desktop computers, a number that has been stable for some years.1 Now, in addition, 44% of adults own a smartphone, and the number of tablet owners grew by about 50% since the summer of 2011, to 18% of Americans over age 18.