In West Borneo, Indonesia, palm oil farmers monitor big business and send the news they find to their fellow farmers via mobile phones. This fills an information void in a poor, rural community too often ignored by the country's mainstream media.

Whether you need a way to save time, to measure your success or to just engage your followers, here are some of 2012's best social media tools.

Mark Briggs, author of "Entrepreneurial Journalism," advises journalism schools – and journalists themselves – to keep up with constantly changing technology.

With readers juggling their tablets, mobile phones, laptops and more as they consume the news, journalists have an opportunity to create a new kind of story.

To understand the relationship between the media and politics, it’s important to look at the various dynamics that can exist between a journalist and a politician.

Choosing from the endless array of mobile apps can be overwhelming. Here are four that meet most journalists' video, audio and language needs.

Tips for journalists on Facebook, a look inside the Internet archive, and more are found in this week's Digital Media Mash Up, produced by the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA).

Applicants must have a minimum of five years’ experience in any branch of journalism and good spoken and written English. The program enables visiting journalists from around the world to do research in Oxford for a period of three, six or nine months.

Journalists interested in immigration and integration issues can apply.

The Guardian is especially interested in environment bloggers in Australia, Canada and the United States, and in emerging economies, such as China and India.

Journalists who are interested in sharing, expanding and researching public policy and political affairs can apply.

Journalists can apply for fellowships to attend a course in Rome.

Filmmakers worldwide whose work relates to anthropology can compete.

The webinar "Tumblr for Journalists: Best Practices and Strategies" will take place at 2 p.m. EST on May 3.

Photojournalists and students can apply for a grant for work that promotes world peace and cultural understanding.

Professional and amateur photographers worldwide can compete.

Journalists who live outside the United States can apply to learn more about American journalism.

Journalists interested in reporting on food-related issues can apply for a spot in this course offered by the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Journalists, educators and education policy researchers can apply for a US$75,000 fellowship.

Journalists can attend this free webinar offered by the National Press Foundation.

Google, the Global Editors Network and the European Journalism Centre are now accepting submissions.

The Knight Science Journalism Fellowship program invites applications from international and U.S. journalists covering science, technology, the environment or medicine.

Journalists can attend this webinar offered by Poynter's News University.

Harvard University offers a 10-month research fellowship.

Journalists writing about Belarus for an audience outside the country can compete.

Journalists who reside outside the United States can apply for a US$7,500 travel grant.

Journalists can apply for this position in Beijing.

Journalists with five years of experience can apply for a fellowship to a seminar in Bangkok.

Journalists can register to attend the Transmedia Lab in Rio de Janeiro.

Photographers ages 18 and older can compete.

Media professionals and students in the Brazilian state of Amazonas can enter.

Journalists and students with stories published in the German media in 2012 can enter.

Journalists, researchers, and press freedom defenders can apply for this position in New York.

Journalists can submit print, broadcast, online or photo entries that foster social and economic justice.

Journalists with native Spanish fluency and high proficiency in English can apply.

Journalists can apply for a research fellowship at Stanford University.

Media professionals can apply for this position in Washington, D.C.

Journalists of color based in the United States can apply to cover international news that affects their communities.