Employees at The Dallas Morning News have the potential to earn up to $25,000 in incentives by suggesting revenue-generating opportunities. Among the ideas implemented so far: e-books special sections and a series of sports poster collectibles.

This week we compare two methods of virtual-reality storytelling: shooting in 360 degrees and in 180 degrees. We speak with three VR experts — Littlstar founder and CEO Tony Mugavero, BuzzFeed’s Open Lab fellow Ben Kreimer and VR filmmaker Carl White — about the pros and cons of each approach.

Tline is a new tool for creating interactive timelines that brings together publishers and advertisers. The timelines include sponsored advertisements and can be shared on social media or embedded on a site. Publishers have control over which ads are displayed on their timelines and receive a 50 percent share of the revenue.

The Reported.ly team was small and spread out across the globe, which meant they relied on many digital and social tools. Before they said goodbye, the staff compiled a list of some of the tools they found most useful. Here's a look at six of their favorites.

This week we go inside Quartz and learn how newsletters, video and a constant focus on the target user have helped the operation attract and maintain a highly engaged mobile audience.

In this week's Futures Lab update, the Reynolds Journalism Institute looks at how the value proposition of wire services may be changing, and at a tool that automatically could highlight questionable information online.

This week we see how satellite data can be used for storytelling, and we learn some ways data reporting can improve breaking news coverage.

This week we see how virtual reality might enable users to take a 3-D journey into the heart of big data sets, and we find out how data visualizations can be made more human.

This week we look at how news organizations can make the most of Facebook Live. Journalists at Mashable and KXLY-TV in Spokane, Wash., share a few ways they've been experimenting with broadcasting live on social media.

This tool could help journalists more effectively communicate with sources, colleagues and other social media contacts.

In this week's Futures Lab update, we see what the newsroom at KQED public media is doing to serve the education market, we hear about newspaper strategy from an executive at Lee Enterprises and we learn how the professional networking site LinkedIn can be used to help report and disseminate news.

Community Impact Newspaper is a hyperlocal news company that delivers a free monthly newspaper to every household in the geographic areas it covers. The company uses revenue generated from advertisements to serve 22 communities across Texas. John Garrett, founder and CEO, explains what makes Community Impact’s targeted advertising model unique.