Overtone.ai
Assesses stories based solely on the content itself, not secondary metrics like clicks or shares to help people communicate better

Techzmag: Free AI
A technology website offering AI news, AI reviews, and insights on the latest AI tech advancements and provides regularly updated content.

Allconnect: Federal Programs Provide Millions for Rural Internet Access

Kandi from Open Weaver
Kandi helps developers find reusable open-source codes and libraries from over half a billion items. A simple natural language search engine for finding open-source libraries for specific functions. kandi uses Artificial Intelligence to offer the best solution and help developers navigate complex decisions for code reuse, such as license, security, quality, installation, and other critical needs, in a straightforward manner.

Tech Republic: 2015 Tech Trends to Watch

BackTweets.com
Similar to ConvoTrack, this site tracks how social media is referencing a Web site. You can see what people on Twitter, Reddit, Digg and other online media are saying about your site.

MobiForms Developer
Develop mobile apps in HTML 5 with no programming. Download the software from this site.

Embed Responsively
Allows you to embed ideos from YouTube and Vimeo, Maps from Google and photos from Instagram so they are responsive on your site and will resize on any device.

New Media and Technology Law Blog

HTML Dog
Learn basic HTML. Primers and tutorials.

Center for Humane Technology
Founded by former tech officers, including Tristan Harris, a design ethicist at Google, who observed the large-scale negative impacts of attention-grabbing business models back in 2013.

Google Journalists Guide
Launched in April 2022, this guide helps journalists learn about the best digital tools and resources from Google and beyond, to help you find, verify and tell engaging stories. Take a course to discover Newsgathering, Data & Visualization and Specialist topics.

Reuters Digital News Report 2022
Data, studies and insights on digital news consumption based on a YouGov survey of over 93,000 online news consumers in 46 markets covering half of the world’s population.

How to Imbed Anything in Your Web Page

Dronestagram
Site for sharing drone photography.

World Intellectual Property Organization

Online News Association: Interactive Narratives Blog

Tech President
A great blog run by the Presidential Democracy Forum that tracks various campaign sites, postings on YouTube, etc. A great snapshot of how candidates are using the web.

Layoffs.fyi
A startup that tracks tech and some media layoffs.

Kandi from Open Weaver
Kandi helps developers find reusable open-source codes and libraries from over half a billion items. A simple natural language search engine for finding open-source libraries for specific functions. kandi uses Artificial Intelligence to offer the best solution and help developers navigate complex decisions for code reuse, such as license, security, quality, installation, and other critical needs, in a straightforward manner.

Techzmag: Free AI
A technology website offering AI news, AI reviews, and insights on the latest AI tech advancements and provides regularly updated content.

For more training videos, visit our YouTube page.

Allconnect: Federal Programs Provide Millions for Rural Internet Access

Zamzar Conversion Tool
A free service that turns a .PDF into flat-file text.

Product Hunt
New digital tools, product launches and more.

Digital Media Law Project
Formerly the Citizen Media Law Project, this organization supports the vibrant online culture of citizen media and independent journalism by providing free legal advice and information on a wide range of media law, intellectual property and business law issues.

Google News Initiative Reader Revenue Playbook
The playbook, exercises, and workshops are informed by insights from more than 50 publishers around the world and represent the collective expertise of our trusted partners and the Google News Initiative.

Social Media Keyboard Shortcuts
Great list of keyboard shortcuts for Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Companies.tools
App stacks of some of the top tech companies in the world. See what tools they’re using.

LinkPopularity.com
Check how many sites link to a particular site.

BuzzFeed
Like Digg, this site tracks funny, offbeat news and videos.

TinyURL.com

Veed.io Video Converter
Convert videos to different file formats including MP4, AVI, MKV, WMV, MOV, FLV, and more.

Collaborative Journalism: Technology and Tools

Center for Cooperative Media: Tools and Apps to Make Newsroom Collaboration a Lot Easier

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics: Ethics in the Metaverse
This team from Santa Clara University built this code to maintain safe environments and protect those individuals and communities who are relatively more vulnerable and hold less power in cultural spaces.

Journalism AI Starter Pack
A project of Polis – the journalism think-tank at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) – and it’s powered by the Google News Initiative.

Tr.im
Shortens URLs and provides diagnostics/stats on hits.

TVEyes
The site offers “transcript search” of podcasts. The site is fee-based service and allows you to search nearly all major TV networks and some local stations. The site also has a free transcript search of TV news video available on the open web from MSNBC, Reuters, etc.

TechDirt.com
Tracks blogs, news on the tech industry.

ConsumerAffairs.com
Tracks corporate sites, consumer affairs blogs.

News at Seven
A cool tool that allows you to create a virtual newscast pulled from stories, images, videos and blogs all linked by a common news topic. The site generates an avatar that delivers the newscast.

Center for Citizen Media
More resources for citizen media.

Zoomcorder
Zoomcorder.com gives power to people to record Zoom and other video meetings without being at their PC or phone. Simply enter a meeting URL and a recording of the meeting is sent to watch at any convenience time on a phone or PC like a YouTube video.

ScreenStab
Vibrant photographs of computer screens or phones are a popular choice of illustration material for tech-related articles, as they make for particularly eye-catching visual elements. However, photographing a screen in real life requires time and effort. Screenstab is a website for automatically generating this type of photo from ordinary flat screenshots, giving journalists the ability to import them and turn them into beautiful image assets.

How to Change the World
Guy Kawasaki’s Blog on technology and communication.

The Digital Journalist

Twitter Search
Look up thousands of Twitter feeds.

Washington Post: e-QAEDA
A three-part special report that features video reports of experts talking about jihadists’ use of the Web. They describe how al Qaeda and allied groups are using the Internet to recruit more fighters, spread their message and train their followers to commit acts of terror.

Cybercrime Information Center
A repository for studies, measurements, data sets, statistics, and analyses of global security threats involving the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), IP addresses, and hosting and cloud networks. The Center identifies DNS and hosting systems abuse and the contexts in which they occur—particularly those in which criminal abuse is highly concentrated.

Wifi Freespot
Listing of wireless hookups around the country.

GIJN Toolbox: Search for Hidden Connections Between Websites
Tools like VirusTotal, SpyOnWeb, etc.

Net Etiquette

TechMeme

Technet.org
Bipartisan tech network allows you to look up tech-related bills being considered in Congress.

ZDNET.com
A great collection of magazine and daily news articles on the tech industry.

Future News
Analysis, interviews and case studies of innovation and developments in the news media industry.

Wired.com
Tech news headlines and other helpful tools.

The Wayback Machine
An archive of more than 10 billion Web pages dating back five years. It allows you to surf the page as it actually appeared at that time. Very cool!

WiFi Location Finder + Local Info
A Boston company is giving away software that can turn nearly any laptop computer into a global positioning system, enabling users to find the nearest restaurant, hospital, or gas station at the touch of a button.

Electronic Frontier Foundation: Legal Guide for Bloggers

Internet 2
A new, super, high-speed version of the internet being developed by a consortium of university, government and commercial scientists.

For more training videos, visit our YouTube page.

Media Survey
Tracks Web site performance. A good newsletter that offers “expert tech media analysis.”

Brint.com Tech News

USA Today Tech News

SFGate.com

Podscope
A search engine for podcast.

WiFi Free Spot.com
Listings of provide wireless Internet connection locations around the world.

HotSpotList.com
Search this database by city or state in the U.S., or several other countries for places where you can connect to the Internet without plugging your laptop into the wall. Includes airports, restaurants, etc.

ScamBusters.com
This newsletter site is dedicated to fighting online hype and disinformation.

kuro5hin Tech Site

SpamCop.net
Report businesses and people who submit SPAM e-mails.

Red Herring
Hard-core business and tech news.

MalekTips: Computer Help
Computer and technology help. Tweaking, Windows (including Windows XP), DOS, Microsoft Word, anti-spyware, Internet Explorer, electronic mail, the Internet, digital camera, HTML, buying tips, MP3 players, more.

Processing Algorithms: A Reporter’s Guide
Tools for covering the issue and sources.

HotSpotList.com
Search this database by city or state in the U.S., or several other countries for places where you can connect to the Internet without plugging your laptop into the wall. Includes airports, restaurants, etc.

Tekrati
Free and extensive resources on the IT and telecom industry analyst firms, findings and events.

SiliconValley.com
A good industry site with a Northern California perspective.

E-Bituaries: Home of Dead Dot-Coms
Look up dead sites.

NewsFactor.com
Online news magazine for tech news.

Newsbureau.com
Press release info. for business and technology editors. Click on “for the journalists” link to subscribe.

The Guide to Sound Effects

Podcasting Profs
Listing of college professors using podcasts to reach their students.

Podcasting News.com
News on cutting-edge ways of using podcasts.

Webshots.com

Center for Democracy and Technology

SendSpace
Send/share large video files.

Downdetector
Monitor when your favorite services are down or having problems. Good for tracking outages on social accounts, government sites, etc.

Epic.org’s Electronic Privacy Information Center

Jupiter Communications

Internet Advertising Bureau
The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) is the only industry association devoted exclusively to promoting the use and effectiveness of advertising on the Internet.

RoboForm
This software remembers every password, various addresses (which you control by creating different identities) and unlike Gator, contains no spyware. Although the basic version is free, the pro version is available for about $30.

Website-Watcher
Put in the URL of a page you want to keep tabs on and it automatically checks to see if the content has changed.

LetsGoDigital
Online magazine about digital imaging published in three editions (English, Spanish and Dutch).

AlgorithmTips.org
Resources and leads for investigating algorithms in society. A project of the Computational Journalism Lab at Northwestern University.

Webopedia
An online dictionary of computing terms.

BlogDrive: Set Up Your Own Blog

NetworkWorld.com
High-tech online magazine.

WhatIs?
Definitions of tech terms, links to articles and other resources.

HowStuffWorks.com’s Computers Section

Spy on It.com
These “spies” notify you when a Web page changes or information on the page changes.

MobileInfo.com
High-tech online magazine.

PCWorld.com
High-tech online magazine.

TechDirt.com
Tracks blogs, news on the tech industry.

ConsumerAffairs.com
Tracks corporate sites, consumer affairs blogs.

GIJN: Tips for Investigative Journalists Using the Wayback Machine

ConsumerWebWatch.org
It’s mission is to “investigate, inform and improve the credibility of information published on the World Wide Web.”

Online News Association
Good online newsletter with dot-com studies, more.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
An online free speech group.

Digital Music Protection Technologies Paper
This controversial paper by Princeton Computer Science Professor Edward Felten explores how he and a team of hackers broke the code for technology designed to prevent people from stealing digital music.

NetworkWorld
Technology news and blogs.

Beet.tv
Blog about technology and the media.

Scribd.com
A site that invites journalists to publish their work and reach new audiences.

Forbes.com: Best of the Web
Tracks trends in many e-industries and includes lists of links.

AltaVista Search Trends

Wikipedia.com
Wiki is an “open source collaborative server technology that enables users to access, browse, and edit hypertext pages in areal-time context.” To see how it works check out Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia on the site. The software allows users to add an article or edit anyone else’s article.

SafeKids.com
Tips for safe and productive web use for kids.

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology

Wired Magazine’s Cybrarian

Center for Digital Government
Affiliated with Government Technology magazine, this organization has people who will talk to you, although they tend to be on the technology-is-the-solution side of things.

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly or Why It’s A Good Idea to Evaluate Web Resources
From Susan E. Beck of the New Mexico State University Library.

ProfessorDeVigal.org
Great primers and resources from Drew DeVigal, NY Times multimedia editor.

Media Survey
Tracks Web site performance. A good newsletter that offers “expert tech media analysis.”

TechTarget.com

Tech Law Journal

Wall Street Journal Tech Column

Government Computer News

Potomac Tech Wire
An e-mail newsletter about technology stories in the DC area. Has about 30,000 subscribers.

GILC.org
A group for organizations promoting online privacy and free speech.

Online Privacy Alliance

GigaLaw.com

Association Representing the Wireless Telecommunications Industry (CTIA)

Pew Internet & American Life Project
An initiative of the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Internet explores the impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life.

U.S. Public Interest Research Groups
Transportation, healthcare, money and politics, media reform, tax and budget, law, higher education and environmental issues.

Flock
Web browser that simplifies social and web-based applications by integrating them directly into the browser.

Usability.gov
Yes, the Feds have a set of Web design guidelines.

Garage.com
A venture capital investment bank that features helpful news releases, a resources page and more.

CNNfn.com’s Tech Stocks

TechWeb.com
Technology news site.

Silicon.com
The 5 W’s of e-business.

Small Business Websites That Work
This is the companion site to my book of the same name and includes lots of helpful background material for writers researching how company Web sites can be made effective. There are a couple of full chapters available for download (including an internet backgrounder called “Getting to Know the Internet”) and lots of links for businessmen and researchers.

Society for Technical Communication
Members include writers, editors, illustrators, printers, publishers, educators, students, engineers and scientists. Both national and chapter sites include permanent and contract job listings.

Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Digsby
E-mail, social networking and instant messaging.

Techmeme
Links to many breaking tech news stories.

CAUCE, The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail

Five Elements of Digital Storytelling
From the University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies offers a site that provides a common vocabulary and structure for understanding new media content.

Adobe.com
Several tips sheets and software news.

MacroMedia Showcase
This page highlights four or five cool Web sites a day. Many are Flash presentations.

FlashChallenge.com
This is a contest site for Flash presentations. Log-in and evaluate different Flash sites, or enter your own. A very highly regarded site for Flash designers.

Interactive Advertising Bureau

RandallRothenberg.com
Blog from the president of the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

MSN: Top Web News Gaffes
A few examples of publishing too soon.

Digital History
A new Web resource that aims to cover the latest trends in digital history and to keep up with the state-of-the-field. From the New Media Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the site is a clearinghouse of current events and news items of interest, and provides selected bibliography of resources. Targeted to scholars, the site has many helpful tools for journalists.

PasswordMeter
Measure the strength of an online password you’re using.

AntennaWeb.org
Choose an antenna to pull in local stations with digital broadcast signals.

National Cable and Telecommunications Association

ComScore
The site maintains massive proprietary databases that provide a continuous, real-time measurement of the myriad ways in which the Internet is used and the wide variety of activities that are occurring online. The company compiles site traffic, trends and shares some of the results in the site’s press room and in company releases.

PBS: MediaShift Idea Lab
A group blog by “innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age.”

TagCrowd
Build free tag clouds of speeches and other text with this free resource, which generates HTML code for you to embed the cloud in your blog.

MattWaite.com
Blog, tips and resources from web developer and CAR expert from the St. Petersburg Times.

MacRumors.com

ReadWriteWeb
Tech trends, company index and more.

Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool
Input a keyword or phrase and then it shows what search words Google users are using to find this particular subject. You can then use this data to place the right keywords into content of a story, PR release, photo, blog tags, etc.

Monitter
Tool for monitoring Twitter updates.

Friend or Follow
A helpful database for tracking Twitter followers and to track who’s following you.

InfoToday News Breaks
A flash news digest of technology information.

George Mason University: Center for History and New Media

WWW-VL: Internet History

Hobbes’ Internet Timeline

Information Valet Project
From the Reynolds Institute at the University of Missouri, the Information Valet Project is organizing an information-industry collaborative to build, own and operate a shared-user network layered upon the basic Internet.

Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society

The Online Timeline
From David Carlson at the University of Florida.

About.com Web Design Links

Internet Resources for Technical Writers

Nieman Journalism Lab
A project of Harvard University.

Internet Talk Radio Network

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ADL Media Guidelines for Covering the War in Israel (ADL)

Media Resource Guide: Palestine / Israel (AMEJA)

Working with traumatic imagery (Dart Center)

Covering children and trauma (Dart Center)

Trauma and Journalism Handbook (Dart Center)

Freelance safety principles (ACOS Alliance)

Online Harassment Field Manual (PEN America)

Journalists Safety and Emergency Resources (Committee to Protect Journalists)

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FlexClip
Free web-based video maker for creating and editing.

Runway
AI-powered video editor.

Resound
AI-powered podcast and audio editor. Great for removing extra words.

Steve.ai
Create animated videos using this free AI tool.

StockIMG.ai
Create stock images, illustrations, logos, etc. using AI.

VIDEO | GIFS

Wirewax
Create interactive videos.

Type Studio
Video creation tool where you can edit the words in the transcript and it will trim the video.

Descript
Video creation tool where you can edit the words in the transcript and it will trim the video.

Lumen5
Social media video editing tool has several pricing tiers but the free version works just fine for journalists.

WeVideo
Video editor, screen recorder, meme-maker, green screen and more. Good for editing social video and has templates for Facebook and TikTok. Plans start at $5 a month but it has a free trial.

Kapwing
Free and simple online video editor. Think Canva for video. Simple to add subtitles to videos, turn articles into social media, combine clips together, edit recordings, and turn audio into video (or vice versa).

EasySub
EasySub is an automatic subtitle generator that provides the most refined automatic subtitles and free subtitle translation on the internet. It helps journalists transcribe audio and video faster, and can perform simple video editing, providing functions such as adding watermarks, modifying video resolution, video format and background color.

Genial.ly
Great interactive video and other multimedia through the templates in this desktop app.

Recast Studio Online Video Editor
Recast Studio is a cloud based online video editor that will help journalists to create and repurpose text, audio or video into dynamic social videos.

Free and Paid Video and Audio Editing Software
Both desktop and mobile tools. Complied by Ted Gutsche.

Munch
Uses AI to repurpose video content for social channels and more

Genially
Create interactive videos, charts, maps and presentations.

Synthesia
Create Free AI videos from this browser-based tool.

Jitter.video
Create simple motion graphics in this browser-based tool. Good for story posts and social media.

Steve.ai
Create animated videos using this free AI tool.

Runway
AI-powered video editor.

For more training videos, visit our YouTube page.

Journalism.co.uk: Eight Tips to Edit Your Video to Perfection

Jeremy Caplan’s 10 Useful Tools for Visual Productivity

Journalism.co.uk: How to Find Free Music for Your Next Video

Reel
Tool lets you create audiograms from podcasts. Share video snippets of your episodes on social media and grow your audience with Reel.

How to Search Closed Caption Text on YouTube

SnipClip
Screen-recording tool

VIDIZMO
If journalists have exclusive stories or video recordings, then they need to securely store them. They can store videos in this secure video platform. It is great for securely sharing video, audio and image files on an end-to-end encrypted platform.

Mojo App
Templates to create Instagram Stories and other social channels.

ClipChamp
Free in-browser video editor, compressor and converter.

EZGIF
Convert images and videos into GIF files

Videvo.net
Free stock video and audio

Mazwai
Free stock video

One Image Music Video
Combine audio + image to make video

Stabilizo
Stabilize shaky videos

Switcher Studio
Augment your videostream

Streamyard
Augment your videostream

Deep Nostalgia
You can animate old photos with this tool but be careful with news photography and deep-faking. Remember ethical guidelines when editing/altering photos.

Zamzar
Browser-based video file conversion tool.

Descript
Audio word processor. Good for transcribing audio from interviews. First 30 minutes are free and paid after that. Also does podcasting, video editing and more.

GIF Rocket
Create GIFs from any video.

58 Video Tech Tools

Panopto
Create and manage video learning content.

Facebook Video Downloader
Be careful with copyright issues.

Soundslides
The audio slideshow tool is back with an upgraded HD version.

For more training videos, visit our YouTube page.

Squoosh
Drag an image into this browser-based tool and compress it in seconds.

OBS Open Broadcaster Software
Free open-source software for video recording and livestreaming.

RenderForest
Online video and animation maker.

GetVideoBot
Tag a video with @getvideobot and they’ll download a link to the video. Beware of copyright on video, though, and get permission to reuse the video.

Downloader Bot
Tag a video or GIF with @downloaderbot and they’ll download a link to it. Beware of copyright on video, though, and get permission to reuse the video/GIF.

What You Need to Know: Embedding Video

ProCreate
iPad app for drawing and animated videos. Very popular among illustrators. Runs about $10.

Unscreen
Allows you to remove backgrounds from videos. Be careful with this tool ethically as you must label any photo or video an illustration.

WatchFramebyFrame.com
Can be used to play YouTube and Vimeo videos frame by frame, to see any inconsistencies in content.

VideoLAN
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also assists in helping you download YouTube videos. Free, no spyware and runs on all platforms.

Tips to Make Your Zoom Presentations User-Friendly

IJNET: How to Create GIFs for Use in Journalism

For more training videos, visit our YouTube page.

GRAPHICS/DATA

Knight Lab Publisher’s Toolbox
Timeline JS, Storymap, Juxtapose and more.

TimeToast
Free timeline creation tool. Post and share on web.

TimeGlider
Build timelines with this online tool.

Tiki-Toki Timelines

Font Joy Font-Pairing Tool
A free, browser-based tool that matches fonts that work well together.

Google Earth Timelapse
Track changes over 32 years to environment, city, region.

Excalidraw
Free drawing tool that lets you build cool charts.

Adobe Kuler Color Generator

Coolor
Color schemes generator.

NPR Lunchbox
Build text cards with this free browser-based tool.

TNW: Tips for Creating Social Video Content

Muzli: 10 Video and Graphic Creation Tools

Illustrio Free Icon Library

Free 3D Stock Images Database

Resound
AI-powered podcast and audio editor. Great for removing extra words.

StockIMG.ai
Create stock images, illustrations, logos, etc. using AI.

Essential Visualization Tools for Mapping

For more training videos, visit our YouTube page.

Crowdmap
Helps you collect data from web, cell phones, etc., aggregate it and visualize it on a map.

Ushahidi
Open source code for interactive mapping.

Video: Tutorial on How to Use BatchGeo with Google Maps

Mapperz Mapping News
A blog about mapping.

Data Miner UK
Site helps you develop ideas for data-based online journalism projects.

Infogr.am
Build infographics in this free, easy-to-use browser-based tool.

Humaans
Create royalty-free illustrations with a variety of skin tones, body types and backgrounds.

Easel.ly
Build online infographics.

Pic Monkey
Browser-based photo editing tool.

Blush Illustrations
Add editable illustrations to your stories.

Visage.co
Build cool infographics.

Google Moon
Zoom in on areas of the moon. Works in browser or in Google Earth. Use images on your site and credit Google.

LucidChart
Build imbedded flow charts for free.

Gephi
Open source graph visualization tool.

Mashable: Web Typography 101
Breakdown of web-safe fonts.

For more training videos, visit our YouTube page.

30 Free Data Visualization Tools

The Noun Project: Free Icons
Over a million curated icons, created by a global community.

R for Journalists
Tips and resources for anyone using R in data reporting

InterviewJS
Turn interviews into shareable, embeddable interactive chats.

Juice Analytics: Data Viz Design Principles

Zeemaps
Cool mapping tool. Add photos, video, text, etc.

Favicon Generator

SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS

Note: This collection of tools came from several journalism instructors’ contributions to the ONA Educators Facebook page.

Social Blade
Track user stats for YouTube, Twitch, Instagram and Twitter to get a deeper understanding of user growth and trends.

Data & Society: How to Investigate Social Media Accounts
A .PDF guide of great tools and tricks.

Pablo: Engaging Social Images in 60 Seconds
Create cool social media images with text. Great tool.

Social Image Resizer Tool
Resizes an image to fit various social media sites.

Social Media Keyboard Shortcuts
Great list of keyboard shortcuts for Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Yomapic
Location search for Instagram and social network VKontakte.

Journalists and Publishers on TikTok
A list/mini app from Jeremy Caplan.

Digital Forensics: Using Social and Online Tools to Find Great Stories
Video from an ONA ’19 conference panel with great tools and tips.

Remove bg: Remove a Background from Images

Friend or Follow
A helpful database for tracking Twitter followers and to track who’s following you.

ThreadReaderApp
Combines Twitter threads into one readable page.

Gramfeed Instagram Search
Great tool. You can search by people, hashtag, location, etc.

Botometer
Checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot. Higher scores are more bot-like.

GetVideoBot
Tag a video with @getvideobot and they’ll download a link to the video. Beware of copyright on video, though, and get permission to reuse the video.

Downloader Bot
Tag a video or GIF with @downloaderbot and they’ll download a link to it. Beware of copyright on video, though, and get permission to reuse the video/GIF.

Graphika
Develop detailed maps of social media landscapes.

Gramfeed
Lets You Search Instagram.

TwitterFall.com
Track trends on a specific topic or newsmaker.

Monitter
Great for tracking trends on a specific topic or newsmaker.

A Journalist’s Guide to Web Scraping

Sprout Social: Guide to Social Media Image Sizes

Wavve.co
Turn podcast or musical audio into engaging animated videos to share on social media.

Over app
iPhone or Android app that layers text over photos.

Pablo
Very simple layered graphics.

Adobe Creative Cloud Express
A suite of Adobe apps such as Photoshop, Spark Video, etc. Create graphics, social videos and much more.

Jitter.video
Create simple motion graphics in this browser-based tool. Good for story posts and social media.

Mojo App
Templates to create Instagram Stories and other social channels.

Venngage
Good infographics maker with many social platforms templates.

Landscape Social Media Image Resizer
From Sprout Social, this tool resizes an image to fit a social channel specs.

Promo Free Image Resizer
Similar to Landscape from Sprout Social, you can drag an image into this browser-based tool and resize images to fit various social platforms.

2019 Social Media Image Sizes Cheat Sheet

Squoosh
Drag an image into this browser-based tool and compress it in seconds.

EZGIF
Convert images and videos into GIF files

Reel
Tool lets you create audiograms from podcasts. Share video snippets of your episodes on social media and grow your audience with Reel.

Deep Nostalgia
You can animate old photos with this tool but be careful with news photography and deep-faking. Remember ethical guidelines when editing/altering photos.

Training Video: Canva Video Editor for Beginners
November 2021 training video for updated Canva video editor.

For more training videos, visit our YouTube page.

Phoetic
This iOS app is a word cloud generator. Turns photos into visual word clouds from whatever words you choose. Good for social graphics

AlternativeTo
Type in a name of a piece of paid software and the site will give you a free alternative. Example: Type in Photoshop and it will give you a list of free, browser-based photo editors such as Fotor.

Remove BG
Remove a background from an image quickly with this free browser-based tool.

Type Studio
Video creation tool where you can edit the words in the transcript and it will trim the video.

ProCreate
iPad app for drawing and animated videos. Very popular among illustrators. Runs about $10.

Zamzar
Browser-based video file conversion tool.

Recast Studio Online Video Editor
Recast Studio is a cloud based online video editor that will help journalists to create and repurpose text, audio or video into dynamic social videos.

GetVideoBot
Download videos posted to Twitter by tagging this account in the replies. Make sure you first have permission from the account/video owner to use it.

Downloader Bot
Tag a video or GIF with @downloaderbot and they’ll download a link to it. Beware of copyright on video, though, and get permission to reuse the video/GIF.

Journalism.co.uk: Eight Tips to Edit Your Video to Perfection

Wochit
This short-form video editor lets you use your video clips or pull from a library (including music). Great for layering text in this browser-based tool. Great for creating social videos.

Tweetroot
Create word clouds off Twitter hashtags on this phone app.

IMGFlip Meme Generator

Evernote Skitch
Capture and edit photos editing photos on this free desktop or mobile app.

Little Card Editor
Twitter or Facebook card images.

IJNET: How to Create GIFs for Use in Journalism

PicMonkey
Phone photo editing app with text layering capabilities.

Headliner.app
This tool lets you make social media videos for free. It also allows you to export audio from video, transcribes it and drops it into video as a caption.

Cleanup.pictures
Edit things out of photos quickly with this browser-based tool

Creating Effective Social Media Graphics for Journalism

Twitter Cards

Yomapic
Location search for Instagram and social network VKontakte.

ClipChamp
Free in-browser video editor, compressor and converter.

Fotor Background Remover
An AI background remover can automatically remove image bg in smooth cut out way without any manual work. It helps edit pictures–journalists need photo editing tools.

FilterGrade: Seven Mobile Apps for Graphic Design

Giphy: GIF Maker

The Fix: How to Easily Turn All Your Articles into Audio Articles

NPR Social Media Graphics Guide
NPR built this killer guide to types of social media graphics you can design using Photoshop and other tools.

Venngage: The Ultimate Guide to Designing Epic Social Media Images
Venngage page offers many great tips.

How to Get the Most Out of Twitter’s Analytics Platform

Foller.me
A Twitter analytics application. Very useful.

Video: The Rise of Social Media Through the Years

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IOC: Beijing 2022 Olympics

NY Times: Beijing Winter Olympics

CNN: Winter Olympics Fast Facts

South China Morning Post: Winter Olympics in Beijing

History.com: Winter Olympics History

Britannica: Winter Olympics History

Issues and Politics

GIJN: Eight Lessons from Investigations into the Olympics

OlympicWatch.org
This human rights activist group monitors the situation in the People’s Republic of China in the run-up to the 2008 Olympic Games and to campaign to achieve positive change in the lives of the people of China..

World Health Organization
Has information on air quality in Beijing.

Blood Doping

U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
Policies, codes, fact sheets, links, control officers, etc.

World Anti-Doping Agency
Links, publications, studies, etc.

Findlaw.com: Blood Doping Links
A great collection of fact sheets and legal resources on the blood-doping controversy.

Findlaw.com: Why Blood Doping is Done

BBC: Banned Substances List
Story and list on what athletes cannot take.

BBC: Sports Doping Breakthrough

Steroids and Performance-Enhancing Drugs

SteroidLaw.com
Background on how the laws work, etc.

MedStudents.com: Background on Steroids
A good quick-reference page.

Findlaw.com: Steroids and Performance-Enhancers

Findlaw.com: Other Drugs Abused by Athletes

Findlaw: History of Drug Use in Sports

Olympics History

InfoPlease.com: Olympics Through the Years
Easy-to-use quick reference to past Games.

NationMaster.com: Olympics History Encyclopedia
Look up Games history by year.

Wikipedia: 2004 Olympics Encyclopedia

About.com: 1980 Olympics History
Background on the U.S. Boycott of the Moscow Games.

InfoPlease.com: Olympics Through the Years
Easy-to-use quick reference to past Games.

NationMaster.com: Olympics History Encyclopedia
Look up Games history by year.

Wikipedia: Olympics Encyclopedia

About.com: 1980 Olympics History
Background on the U.S. Boycott of the Moscow Games.

Media Coverage and Blogs

Five Ring TV
Analysis of NBC’s primetime broadcast Olympic coverage, with a focus on the amount of airtime devoted to men’s and women’s sports.

NBCOlympics.com
Comprehensive, around-the-clock coverage of the games from the official network. The site has live video streaming of all the sports, real-time results, etc.

MSNBC Coverage
Breaking news, TV schedule, medal count, other results.

MSNBC World Blog
Includes a “Blogging from Beijing” section.

ESPN: Olympic Sports Index

USA Today Summer Olympics Coverage

Yahoo! Sports Olympics Page

FoxSports: 2008 Summer Olympics

NY Times 2008 Summer Olympics Coverage

NY Times Rings: 2008 Summer Olympics Blog

Chicago Tribune: Globetrotting Blog
Phil Hersh’s international sports blog.

LA Times: Ticket to Beijing
An Olympics blog by LA Times and other Tribune company writers.

Time.com Summer Olympics Coverage

YouTube Summer Games
Site features news, recaps, features, profiles and video on the culture of Beijing through many of its partners, including The Associated Press, New York Times, Getty Images, Reuters and Travel Channel.

CNN 2008 Olympics Coverage

AroundtheRings.com
Covers the business of the Olympics. Includes, archives, newsletter and useful links section.

GamesBids.com
Site covers cities’ bids for upcoming Summer and Winter Olympics.

Summer Olympics News
A blog with updated news links and video from the Olympics. Some of the video is shot from handheld cameras around Beijing.

Miscellaneous

RAND Study: 2012 Olympics (London)
A 77-page .PDF-format report highlighting policy areas (transport and infrastructure, and security) in which specific research tools can be used to facilitate evidence-based policy making.

Teacher Planet: Summer Olympic Resources
Worksheets, exercises and history lessons with Olympic themes. Targeted for younger students but has some value to everyone.

WorldClock Time Zones
Track your time zone from any other city/zone in the world.

2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo

Olympics.com: Tokyo 2020
Actually the 2021 games but the site retained the 2020 branding. Features schedule, results, torch relay, video, etc.

NBC Olympics
Official US broadcaster of the Games.

ESPN: Olympic Sports

Think Global Health: The Olympics and the Pandemic

AP Stylebook: 2021 Tokyo Olympics Style Guide</p

History.com: The Olympics History

Britannica.com: Olympic History

Unit Converter for Men’s and Women’s Olympic and World Records

AP Explainer: Breakdown of the Four New Olympic Sports

2016 Summer Olympics in Rio

Olympic.org: 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio Site

Olympic.org: 2016 Summer Olympics News

The Guardian: 2016 Summer Olympics

Huffington Post: 2016 Summer Olympics

LA Times 2016 Summer Olympics Coverage

2012 Summer Olympics in London

London Olympics 2012

Olympics 2012 Schedule

NBC Olympics Page

Olympic.org London 2012 Page
Official IOC Olympics page.

Olympic.org
Official site of the Olympic movement. IOC news.

AP Stylebook Guide for Summer Olympics
No more digging through the sports guidelines. This list breaks out commonly used terms.

The Guardian Olympics 2012

BBC Olympics 2012

ESPN Olympics 2012

Guardian: 16 Examples of Interactives for Olympic Coverage
Great examples from British media outlets.

Olympic History

Climber News
Sport climbing is in the 2020-2021 Olympics for the first time. This publication covers rock climbing, bouldering, indoor climbing and mountaineering news. Industry updates and gear guides. Happy to help as a source for quotes, insider news, industry takes, and matters relating to the Olympics 2020, business, environmental, health, mental health, and outdoors aspects of the climbing world.

Around the Rings: Business of the Olympics

Social Media Guide to the Summer Olympics

The Guardian: Olympic Bodies
Video, interactives, etc., on Olympic athlete training.

2016 Summer Olympics Bid Resources

AroundtheRings.com
Covers the business of the Olympics. Includes archives, newsletter and useful links section.

GamesBids.com
Site covers cities’ bids for upcoming Summer and Winter Olympics.

Globetrotting Blog
By Chicago Tribune Olympics writer Phil Hersh.

Chicago2016.org
Official Chicago bid site.

International Olympic Committee
Athlete bios, multimedia gallery, links to future games sites and Olympic Museum and education pages.

IOC International Sports Calendar

General Association of International Sports Federations

2008 Summer Olympics Official Sites and Media Resources

Beijing Olympics: Official Site
Includes language translation, history, media operations, torch relay, etc.

International Olympic Committee
Athlete bios, multimedia gallery, links to future games sites and Olympic Museum and education pages.

China.org: Summer Olympics Site
News, events, FAQ, weather, pictures, venue graphics and events surrounding the Games.

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API: The Inclusive Guide to Online Safety

Washington Post: Digital Mobs Are Now Coming for Student Media

International Women’s Media Foundation: Guide to Protecting Newsrooms and Journalists Against OnlineViolence
A resource for newsrooms to better protect staff targeted simply for doing their jobs.

How Not to Fall for Tricky URLs
Data Detox site offers tips and tricks in this interactive exercise. Very good digital security information.

PRIVACY AND PROTECTING SOURCES

Many of the resources listed here are from Reporters Without Borders 2014 trainings and other sources.

How Journalists Can Work from Home Remotely

Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists
From the Global Cyber Alliance, this is a great set of tools for small newsrooms.

GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists
A resource for independent journalists, watchdogs, and small newsrooms.

Google’s Jigsaw
Proxy server and other tools for journalists to stay safe online. Great suite of free tools.

Global Investigative Journalism Network: Digital Security Tools

International Center for Journalists: Digital Security Resources

USA Today: Blur Your Home on Maps and Erase Your Data to Remove Your Life from Google’s Grip

CPJ: Safely Covering the 2020 U.S. Elections
Legal resources, digital safety and more.

IJNET: Digital Security Do’s and Don’ts

How to Set Up a Secure Phone
David Koff’s Medium post walks you through the steps. Important for investigative reporters and international correspondents.

ICFJ: How to Convince Journalists That Digital Security is for Them

European Journalism Observatory: Working With Whistleblowers In The Digital Age: New Guidelines
Great tips for investigative journalists on protecting sources.

Last Pass
Password storage and generator tool.

Dashlane
A safe, simple way to store and fill passwords and personal information.

latakoo
This tool makes it simple for journalists to securely share video, photos, and audio files over any Internet connection. latakoo handles large files fast and preserves great quality.

API: The Inclusive Guide to Online Safety

GIJN Toolbox: Search for Hidden Connections Between Websites
Tools like VirusTotal, SpyOnWeb, etc.

Surveillance Self-Defense
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Surveillance Self-Defense guide includes guides to digital security for journalists, including how to use encryption and secure messaging.

Dart Center: Online Abuse: A Self-Defense Guide

1Password
Save your passwords and log in to sites with a single click. It’s that simple.

Watch Your Hack
A manual that explains how to protect yourself from hackers, in layman’s terms.

SecurityPlanner.org
Google offers several free security tools for journalists and others.

USA Today: How to Secure Your WiFi Router

Doxxing Yourself on the Internet
Great tips from a NICAR 19 panel.

TrollBusters: Global Safety Resource Hub
A map of security tools from around the world.

GIJN: How to Protect Yourself from Metadata

Verycrypt
A free open source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

Craig Silverman’s Verification and Digital Investigations Resources
Essential plugins and tools for general OSINT/online research work.

GIJN: Safety and Security Videos

ZDNet: How to Delete Yourself from Internet Search Results and Hide Your Identity Online

Washington Post: Digital Mobs Are Now Coming for Student Media

Troll-Busters
Resources galore for dealing with online harassment. Built by journalists for journalists.

Freedom of the Press Foundation: How Safe Are Your Favorite Transcription Tools?

GIJN: What to Do If Authorities Invade Your Home

No One Uses Email Anymore
A great slideshow of tips from an IRE 19 panel on how government officials are using private chat apps to communicate rather than email. Makes it harder to FOIA and track those discussions.

Jumbo Privacy + Security
See what Google and digital platforms know about you. Available for iPhone and Android.

GIJN: How Journalists Are Coping with a Heightened Surveillance Threat

VirusTotal: Analyze Suspicious Links and Files
Analyzes suspicious files and URLs for malware and automatically shares them with the security community.

Popular Science: How to Use Your Smartphone Without Leaving a Trace

OnionShare
Open source tool for secure and anonymous file sharing.

How Not to Fall for Tricky URLS
Data Detox site offers tips and tricks in this interactive exercise. Very good digital security information.

Authy
Generate two-factor authentication codes

AnonDaddy
Anonymous email forwarding

Bitwarden Password Manager

Disconnect.me
Protect your browser from trackers and search privately.

Spideroak
Group chat and file-sharing like Slack but more secure.

GIJN Organized Crime Book: Cybercrime

Digital Attack Map
A live data visualization that surfaces anonymous attack traffic data so you can explore historic trends and find reports of outages happening on any given day.

OnionShare
A secure, encrypted platform for sending files through Tor, the anonymous web browser.

Trollbusters: Generation Zeitgeist Resources
Cool, visual infographic guides to help you understand everything from how the internet works to how to keep your data safe.

Klaxon
A tool that alerts journalists when online content changes.

Processing Algorithms: A Reporter’s Guide
Tools for covering the issue and sources.

HideMyAss.com
Use this proxy to surf anonymously online, hide your IP address, secure your internet connection, hide your internet history, and protect your online identity. Price packages as low as $5 a month.

The Coalition for Women in Journalism
CFWIJ is a New York based, global support organization for women journalists, and documents press freedom for women in 92 countries. Resources include a list of women journalists covering different beats and a COVID-19 map. The Trial calendar that shows when women journalists are facing legal trials after state harassment. Misinformation campaigns and trolls against women journalists is also one of the critical areas CFWIJ covers and offers support in.

Rory Peck Trust: Digital Security Guide for Freelance Journalists
Security Guide for freelance journalists will help you make informed decisions about digital security and protect yourself against attacks. Covers web surfing, passwords and more.

GIJN: Journalist Security Assessment Tool
How secure are you? Walk through this process and find out.

Smartphone Security for the Mobile Journalist
An excellent journal article (free) from Frank Lomonte and Philip J. Sliger.

Global Cyber Alliance: Cybersecurity Toolkit

Security-in-a-Box: Digital Security Tools and Tactics

The Intercept: Surveillance Self-Defense Checklist

DIY Guide to Feminist Cybersecurity
Hack Blossom offers great tips and resources.

VirusTotal
Run any suspicious files through this free, encrypted tool to detect any viruses.

Tools and Apps: The Essentials for Covering Silicon Valley
NY Times reporter discusses apps and tools he uses to cover Silicon Valley, including many tools to protect privacy and sources.

CPJ: Digital Safety – Protecting Against Online Attacks

First Draft News: Covering Coronavirus – Privacy and Security Tips for Journalists

Blacklight from The Markup
A real-time web privacy inspector. Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet? Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what you learn.

Tauria
End-to-end encrypted business communication. Tauria includes truly secure video conferencing, webinars, messaging, file sharing and calendar to protect journalists’ sensitive information.

Current Digital Security Resources – Martin Shelton – Medium

Bellingcat’s Open Source Digital Forensics Tools

Better Living Through Online Security and Encryption

Tips to Protect Yourself Against Cyberattacks
Some good tips from Derek Eder, a civic hacker in Chicago. Scroll down the page for the list.

Vox: How to Make Sure Google Deletes Your Data on a Regular Basis

Medium: Digital Security Resources

Have I Been Pwned?
Check to see if your email password has been part of a data breach

EFF: Surveillance Self Defense Kit

Salama.io
Digital security risk assessment for journalists and bloggers.

MetaCleaner
Metacleaner removes the metadata from files. Storing files in the cloud or sharing files on the Internet is very useful but can be dangerous at the same time. When we upload a certain file, it usually has several details about our identity that, in one way or another, compromises our privacy and offers all users who get access to them personal information about us that we may not want them to have.

First Look Publishes Open Source Journalism Tools for Privacy & Security

Politico: Security and Privacy Issues with Your Favorite Transcription Tools
For sensitive interviews, it might be best to transcribe the old-fashioned way.

International Women’s Media Foundation: Guide to Protecting Newsrooms and Journalists Against OnlineViolence
A resource for newsrooms to better protect staff targeted simply for doing their jobs.

Committee to Protect Journalists Security Guide

Securethe.news
Leaderboard of what news websites offer the best security.

OTR (Off the record)
End-to-end encryption tool.

Semaphor
End-to-end encryption tool.

Mattermost
Self-hosted, end-to-end encryption tool.

Security Tools for Investigative Journalists
Powerpoint full of resources.

TrollBusters: Removing Your Mailing Address from Data Broker Sites

Meta/Facebook: Safety Tips for Journalists Using Facebook

Reuters Institute: Protecting Journalists From Online Abuse: A Guide for Newsrooms

GIJN: Five Ways to Stay Online During a Government Internet Shutdown
Experts in privacy and security offer advice to circumvent these shutdowns.

Electronic Frontier Foundation Surveillance Self-Defense

Freedom of the Press Foundation Encryption Guide

The Guardian Project
Tools to create easy-to-use open source apps, mobile OS security enhancements, and customized mobile devices for people around the world to help them communicate more freely, and protect themselves from intrusion and monitoring.

Cybercrime Information Center
A repository for studies, measurements, data sets, statistics, and analyses of global security threats involving the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), IP addresses, and hosting and cloud networks. The Center identifies DNS and hosting systems abuse and the contexts in which they occur—particularly those in which criminal abuse is highly concentrated.

Onion Share
Open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size.

Cyphr
An easy-to-use encrypted messaging app.

GIJN: Tips on Uncovering the Spy Tech Your Government Buys
A guide on how reporters can unearth spyware surveillance technology acquired by their govts, based on interviews with expert sources —from investigative reporters to cybersecurity experts, etc.

PC World: Tips to Cover Digital Footprints and Regain Your Privacy

ProPublica/ONA: Digital Security for Newbies
PDF of a presentation with great tips and resources to keep your work protected.

VIDIZMO
If journalists have exclusive stories or video recordings, then they need to securely store them. They can store videos in this secure video platform. It is great for securely sharing video, audio and image files on an end-to-end encrypted platform.

The Taliban Detained Me for Doing My Job. I Can Never Go Back.
Foreign Policy columnist Lynne O’Donnell on a harrowing return to Kabul, almost one year after the United States left Afghanistan.

Source: Digital Security for Journalists, Part I

Source: Digital Security for Journalists, Part II

International Center for Journalists: Reporting Tools
Guides to mobile security, research and more.

Beef up Your Digital Security While Working from Home

TRFilter
This tool from Thomson Reuters allows users to document and manage online harassment and abuse, so they can take control of their social media feeds and focus on their professional activities.

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Acos Alliance: Freelance Journalist Safety Principles

API: The Inclusive Guide to Online Safety

UNESCO: Safety for Women Journalists Resources

CPJ: Psychological Safety – Covering Gun Violence in Your Community

Press Freedom Tracker: Incidents Database
A searchable and downloadable database from the US Press Freedom Tracker of attacks on journalists.

MMJ/TV REPORTING SAFETY

SPJ MMJ Safety Guidelines
Safety and security, legal, ethics and mental health resources for multimedia journalists.

CPJ: Why Going Solo is a Risk for Female Journalists in US, Canada

TVNewsCheck Reporter Safety a Story That Won’t Go Away

Change.org: Stop Solo Live Shots

Telling the Story Blog: Safety for Solo Video Journalists Deserves Greater Examination

Deseret News: Reporter Hit by Car on Live TV Spurs Conversation of Dangers of Reporting Alone

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Video: Live Shot Safety
Tips for broadcasters on how to safely set up a live shot.

Quill: Accident Brings Attention to Safety of Lone Journalists in the Field

Discrepancy Report: OSHA staff launched investigation after seeing reporter hit by SUV on TV, exposing regulatory blind spot
Occupational Safety and Health Administration spokesperson told Discrepancy Report that the reporter Tori Yorgey’s television station did not report the incident after she was hit by a car on live TV.

Discrepancy Report
Site, launched in 2020, looks in-depth at various social issues, including reporter safety. It is run by Joe Douglass, who worked for 16 years in TV news for Fox and ABC affiliates in Los Angeles, California, Portland, Oregon, and Pensacola, Florida as a producer and writer.

TV News Check: MMJs Prodded to Insist on Safety

CPJ 2022 Global Impunity Index
Track crimes against journalists internationally.

Mojo Manual
A fantastic, free guide of resources and tips for mojo reporters. Built by Corinne Podger and several others, it looks at safety, storytelling, data journalism and much more, all through a mobile reporting lens.

MORE SAFETY RESOURCES

Press Freedom Tracker: Incidents Database
A searchable and downloadable database from the US Press Freedom Tracker of attacks on journalists.

Committee to Protect Journalists: Journalist Security Guide
Download from Kindle for a dollar.

CPJ Journalist Safety Guide

CPJ: Guide to Legal Rights in the US

CPJ Safety Kit
Security guide, safety notes, resource center, first aid videos.

CPJ Video: How to Prepare to Cover a Demonstration

CPJ Video: What to Do When Demonstrations Escalate

CPJ Video: How to Deal with Teargas

RiotMedicine.net
Free medical guides to treat wounds and other needs for people in protests, covering riots, etc.

GIJN: What to Do When You are Followed

International Media Support Group: Journalist Safety
Medical training, how to set up a live shot, covering protests, etc.

James Foley Foundation: Journalist Safety

UNESCO: Safety of Women Journalists

Jam Lab: How to Cover Civil Unrest Safely
Jeff Belzil, IWMF’s security director, offers many useful tips.

CPJ: Psychological Safety – Covering Gun Violence in Your Community

GIJN Tipsheet: Essential Steps for Journalists in Emergency Situations

UNESCO: Safety for Women Journalists Resources

James F. Foley Foundation Journalism Safety Modules
A downloadable .PDF of tips and resources to keep journalists safe when doing their jobs.

James F Foley Foundation Journalist Safety Curricula

The Associated Press: Journalist Safety

RTDNA: SAFE Journalist Training and Resources
Resources are designed to provide newsroom managers, field journalists and freelancers with the knowledge and tools to stay safe during daily reporting and escalated events including civil unrest.

National Union of Journalists: IFJ Safety Guidelines for Covering Demonstrations
This is a .PDF that will auto-download when you click on the link.

Acos Alliance: Freelance Journalist Safety Principles

Poynter: Should Reporter Safety Trump Open Contact Details for Newsrooms?
Article raises serious concerns about supplying readers TOO MUCH information about reporters to the audience in the interest of transparency. It can open them up to trolling or worse.

API: The Inclusive Guide to Online Safety

Trollbusters: Generation Zeitgeist Resources
Cool, visual infographic guides to help you understand everything from how the internet works to how to keep your data safe.

Reuters Institute: Protecting Journalists From Online Abuse: A Guide for Newsrooms

GIJN: Safety and Security Videos

World Association of News Publishers: Journalist Safety

UK: National Committee for the Safety of Journalists

GIJN: Essential Steps for Journalists in Emergency Situations

Nieman Lab: How Risky is it for Journalists to Cover Protests

The New York Times: At Protests Across America, Guns Are Doing the Talking
SPJ’s Ethics committee offers tips and resources.

GIJN: The Journalism Security Assessment Tool
A safety evaluation guide for watchdog journalism groups. Take a survey for assessment.

Council of Europe: Safety of Journalists

Free Press Unlimited: Journalist Safety

International Women’s Media Foundation: Guide to Protecting Newsrooms and Journalists Against OnlineViolence
A resource for newsrooms to better protect staff targeted simply for doing their jobs.

Dart Center: How to Safely Cover Street Protests
From Judith Matloff, senior adviser, safety training: “Covering civil unrest can be frightening and dangerous. A crowd may turn violent with little warning and police can target journalists or mistake them for rabble rousers. It’s particularly challenging to maintain social distancing during a riot, so take extra precautions to stay on the edge for quick exit. Bring extra masks, gloves and sanitizer for gear.”

ROAAAR
A personal safety training initiative that gives you some basic and easy to use tools to help you feel safe. It specializes in self-defense for journalists.

GIJN: What to Do If Authorities Invade Your Home

Dart Center: Covering Riot Control in the U.S.
Dr. Anna Feigenbaum, author of the book Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of World War I to the Streets of Today, shares a riot control primer for journalists covering protests across the United States.

RTDNA Guidelines for Covering Civil Unrest

Lenfest Institute: A Journalist’s Guide to Safely and Responsibly Covering Protests

Internews: Covering a Protest? Resources to Keep You Safe
Available in English and Spanish. Offers mobile security resources, too.

Protection of Journalists: Safety and Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean
This e-book, “Protection of Journalists: Safety and Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean,” is a compilation of 14 stories focused on four big topics: 1) coverage of protests, 2) reporting on violent conflict, 3) development of protection mechanisms, and 4) investigation and prosecution of violence against journalists.

Washington Post: Digital Mobs Are Now Coming for Student Media

UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists
The UNESCO platform provides data on journalists killed since 1993, including their name, nationality, and gender. The judicial inquiry status of the case, country in which the journalist was killed, DG condemnation (link), and Member State response (when available) are also provided.

Poynter: Guidelines for Journalists to Safely Cover Protests

How the NY Times Acts When a Reporter’s Safety is Compromised

Reporters Without Borders: Safety Guide for Journalists

Dart Center: Covering Volatile Street Protests

GIJN: Safety and Security

Reporters Without Borders: Safety Guide for Journalists

IWMF: Covering Injustice — Safety Tips for Reporting on Protests

American Assoication of University Women: Workplace Harassment
Organization advocates for fair pay and economic opportunity for women — and the battle continues: Women still get just 83 cents for every dollar paid to a man, and men continue to dominate the top roles and highest-paying professions.

TrollBusters: Global Safety Resource Hub
A map of security tools from around the world.

Trollbusters Video: A Conversation on Media Safety and Coverage
This panel brings together educators teaching journalism in the face of increased violence in the streets targeting journalists and student journalists. Strategies for staying safe at protests and online come from educators at HBCUs and minority-serving institutions and from Dr. Michelle Ferrier, Founder, TrollBusters.com.

IJNET: Tips for reporting on anti-police violence protests in the U.S.

Poynter: What to Do if You’re Pepper-Sprayed

University of Georgia: Tips for Journalist’s Covering Protests

Freedom of the Press Foundation: What to Do if Your Phone is Seized by Police

Surveillance Self-Defense List
Go over this checklist before heading out to cover a protest. Tips on encryption and other digital and personal safety. Includes tips on what to do if your device is confiscated.

Nieman Reports: Why Some Journalists Are Centering Trauma-Informed Reporting

IJNET: Staying Safe While Covering Protests

Medium: Dressed for Excess: Gear for Covering Riots, Protests, Etc.

Amnesty International: Safety During a Protest

Journalism.co.uk: How to Report on Online Hate Groups Safely

CJR: Covering Protests Has Become the Riskiest Job in Journalism

Minneapolis Star Tribune: KARE Reporter on Receiving Vulgar Slur from a Minnesota Man
Offers good advice on dealing with these situations.

Twitter Thread: What to Do if Your Protest Rights are Violated

IJNET: Mental Health Tips and Resources for Journalists
A single page of safety tips and outreach contact information.

Nieman Reports: Protest Photography Can Be a Powerful Tool For and Against Black Lives Matter

Washington Post: Are Police Trying to Stop You from Taking That Cell Phone Video?

Education Writers Association: EWA Reporter Guide for Inclusive Coverage

NPPA: Practical Advice About Covering High Profile News Stories
Some great tips in this Mickey Osterreicher piece about covering protests and elections.

Journalist Safety Gear List on Amazon

Nieman Lab: How Journalists Are Managing Their Mental Health

TRFilter
This tool from Thomson Reuters allows users to document and manage online harassment and abuse, so they can take control of their social media feeds and focus on their professional activities.

Journalism Source of Safety
An in-progress database that produces, compiles and organizes checklists, tips, gear advice, and other necessary security training elements for all journalists, including freelancers and students, with an emphasis on equity and ethics. It is intended to be a globally networked resource that centers transparency and accessibility in addressing specific risk management tools, techniques and considerations for journalists with diverse bodies and backgrounds reporting in a variety of environments.

The Taliban Detained Me for Doing My Job. I Can Never Go Back.
Foreign Policy columnist Lynne O’Donnell on a harrowing return to Kabul, almost one year after the United States left Afghanistan.

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NBCUacademy.com
Free journalism education powered by NBCU News Group teaching the fundamental skills to help journalists succeed. We offer free online instruction and digital content as well as hands-on training at select campuses and in NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC and Telemundo newsrooms. Our continuous learning initiative provides fellowships and other job opportunities, direct funding and course development to our partner universities.

SPJ MMJ Safety Guidelines
Safety and security, legal, ethics and mental health resources for multimedia journalists.

Moble Motion: Master Your iPhone Camera Epic Tutorial
Beginner to expert guide with great tips

Newsgathering Tutorial from John Huerta
Great examples of B-roll and how to think visually from KING-5 journalist. He has other tutorial on his channel as well.

GIJN: How to Set Up a Video Unit for a Small Newsroom

NBCU Academy: Transcribing For News
Logging taught by NBC News staff.

Federal Communications Commission
Handbooks, resources, press releases, bureau/office listings, contact information and more.

Radio TV Digital News Association

National Association of Broadcasters

Broadcast Education Association
Studies, news, teaching tools and a huge database of members.

National Academy of Television Journalists

National Association of Television Arts and Sciences

Internet Archive: TV News
View clips from nearly 2 million shows since 2009.

TV Explorer
Rapidly create a visual dashboard that summarizes broadcast television news coverage of your search using data from the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive.

FCC: TV Query Broadcast Station Search
Look up who owns a broadcast license. Find addresses, call signs and more.

SPJ MMJ Safety Guidelines
Safety and security, legal, ethics and mental health resources for multimedia journalists.

Video: Live Shot Safety
Tips for broadcasters on how to safely set up a live shot.

International Media Support Group: Journalist Safety
Medical training, how to set up a live shot, covering protests, etc.

Video: How to Use TV Explorer
A 15-minute training video on how to use tool.

AI Television Explorer
Searches a more limited subset of stations (CNN back to Jan. 25, 2020 and MSNBC/FOX/BBC back to April 2, 2020 and ABC/CBS/NBC evening news back to 2010) but uses Google’s Video AI API to visually index them, so you can search by topics, OCR’d screen text, etc.

VideoLAN
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also assists in helping you download YouTube videos. Free, no spyware and runs on all platforms.

Forvo: Pronunciation Guide

For more training videos, visit our YouTube page.

Newsgathering Tutorial from John Huerta
Great examples of B-roll and how to think visually from KING-5 journalist. He has other tutorial on his channel as well.

10 Words Everyone Should Know How to Pronounce

NBCU Academy: Transcribing For News
Logging taught by NBC News staff.

Sodaphonic
A browser-based audio editor.

RenderForest
Online video and animation maker.

Washington Post: Fact-Checkers Guide to Manipulated Video

Words to Time
Timing a script or speech? Use WordstoTime.com to time out your speech.

Snapstream
SnapStream’s easy-to-use news and media video workspace gives you real-time video content superpowers. Watch & search live TV or streamed content alongside a live transcript. Clip, edit, and share news, politics, sports, and entertainment moments as they happen.

Center for Media Engagement: Gaining Trust in TV News
The Center for Media Engagement examined how TV news stations can increase trust by including certain elements in a story.

RTDNA: News Writing Resources

NBCUacademy.com
Free journalism education powered by NBCU News Group teaching the fundamental skills to help journalists succeed. We offer free online instruction and digital content as well as hands-on training at select campuses and in NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC and Telemundo newsrooms. Our continuous learning initiative provides fellowships and other job opportunities, direct funding and course development to our partner universities.

GIJN: How to Set Up a Video Unit for a Small Newsroom

Veed.io Video Converter
Convert videos to different file formats including MP4, AVI, MKV, WMV, MOV, FLV, and more.

Moble Motion: Master Your iPhone Camera Epic Tutorial
Beginner to expert guide with great tips

Social News Desk
A great newsroom tool to manage stations’ social media accounts. It helps us map out the day’s posts (but also very flexible to upgrade and change). It was created by two former newsroom managers so they understand what producers need.

American Archive of Public Broadcasting
A vast, searchable and streamable radio and television archive with programs created by public media stations across the country from the past 70+ years. The AAPB includes local, regional and national news coverage, cultural content and more which can be used to provide context around today’s headlines. Searchable transcripts are available and many items can be embedded online.

RTDNA: Daily Self-Care Practices for Journalists

Radio.co
Create your own internet radio station.

WochitThis short-form video editor lets you use your video clips or pull from a library (including music). Great for layering text in this browser-based tool. Great for creating social videos.

Dart Center: Covering Coronavirus — Tips for Video Journalists
Great tips on safety, cleaning equipment, pre-production work, etc.

The GDelt Project
Quantifying The COVID-19 Public Health Media Narrative Through TV & Radio News Analysis.

How to Search Closed Captioning on YouTube

WorldCams.tv
Live cams from all over the world. Great for capturing B-roll on the fly.

9/11 Special Coverage Collection
This archive from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting is searchable by keyword, and clips or full programs can be embedded online.

Google: World Cams
List cams from cities and destinations around the world.

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Panopto
Create and manage video learning content.

OBS Open Broadcaster Software
Free open-source software for video recording and livestreaming.

iOGrapher: Live Video Bundle Starter Kit for Tablets

BEA Diversity Links and Resources

Illinois Broadcast Association Newsroom
Tips, public records resources, pronunciation guide, etc.

NewsBlues.com
Covers the TV news industry. News items galore.

Cue Prompter
Teleprompter tool that works on mobile devices and on the web.

Video Journalism
Cyndy Green’s blog on thinking visually.

NewsLab.org: Strategies for Local TV News
Trends and tips on the industry.

Podcasting News.com
News on cutting-edge ways of using podcasts.

How Can Newsrooms Verify Video from Eyewitnesses?
Great set of resources from First Draft News.

NPR Training: Six Tips for Catching Your Writing Mistakes

Essential Tools and Tactics for Video on Social

TNW: Tips for Creating Social Video Content

InVid
Chrome and Firefox plug-in that verifies photos and video.

Hapyak
Make interactive videos. Add links, chapters and quizzes.

Wirewax
Create interactive videos.

Mobile Tools for Video

Touchcast
Create interactive videos.

GoAnimate
Create animated videos.

Broadcasting & Cable Magazine
Covers the business of television. “People on the move” section is great for tracking executives.

SendSpace
Send/share large video files.

NewScript.com
Tips on writing for radio.

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Archive of American Television Interviews
Anyone interested in the history of American television will want to check out these often extensive video interviews, posted in 30-minute segments.

Kobre Guide
Web’s best multimedia and video journalism.

Internet Talk Radio Network

TalkZone.com
Internet talk radio shows.

Radio-Locator
Search globally for radio stations and streaming sites.

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

Hi-Def News Caps

Prelinger Stock Video Footage Archive

GodTube.com
Broadcasts more than 800,000 hours of video, and allows users to comment on videos, which range from sermons to comedies and musical performances.

TVNewsday
News feed and other resources on the broadcast industry.

How Social Media is Changing the Business of TV

TouchCast
For desktop and mobile. Create interactive videos.

YouTube.com
Searchable database of video clips from around the world. Type in a name and search, chances are, you’ll find some video clips.

BCBeat
A broadcasting and cable blog.

News Blues.com
A great TV news industry site. Links, job listings, insider gossip and contact information for nearly 1,600 stations.

SpeakWire
Translates headlines from various RSS feeds into spoken English. Part of a beta site from Great Britain.

RTNDA: War Resources
Hundreds of links and free resource guides you can download as .PDFs. An excellent quick-stop resource.

RTNDA: Bioterrorism Resources
Hundreds of links and free resource guides you can download as .PDFs. An excellent quick-stop resource.

Archive.org: Free Film from the U.S. Government

TyndallReport.com
Run by ADT Research, this site charts how much time each broadcast spent on each topic each night.

FCC: Center for Digital Democracy

InsideRadio.com

AllAccess.com
Radio and music industry site.

The NewsMarket
The NewsMarket provides free broadcast-standard video and multimedia content from corporations, government agencies and non-profits. Journalists can search, preview and request video and other content on demand, online, via digital download or can choose to receive tape-by-mail.

Broadcast Music Inc.

TVNewsday.com

Tyndall Report
Tracks what the network news covers by how many minutes the evening and morning newscasts devote to topics.

National Association of Broadcasting Education Foundation
Education resources, seminars, etc.

Vanderbilt University Television News Archive

The NewsMarket
Provides free broadcast-standard video and multimedia content from corporations, government agencies and non-profits. Journalists can search, preview and request video and other content on demand, online, via digital download or can choose to receive tape-by-mail.

Mashable: How Social Media Is Changing the Business of TV

National Association of Broadcasters

TVZ
International TV news reporting site.

Archive of American Television
Blog on TV news.

Vanderbilt University: Television News Archive
The Television News Archive collection is at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications

Ethics Guide for Public Radio Journalism

jPlayer: HTML 5 Audio and Video Player

BamBuser
Video streaming tool.

Old Time Radio Catalog
Offers thousands of old time radio shows on MP3 CD including thousan of free downloads and articles about the golden age of radio.

Tyndall Report

NPR as a Matter of Fact Blog

Podcasting Legal Guide

B-Roll.net
Television photojournalism site.

Internet Archive: Universal Newsreels
Search more than 600 newsreels from Universal (1929 to 1967).

KeepVid.com
Download streaming video from YouTube and other sites to edit and use in your video.

Newscript: Writing for Radio
This site is run by Michael Meckler, a professor of classical and medieval Latin literature at Ohio State University. A useful guide to various forms of audio journalism, along with practical tips on writing for the ear.

AudioFiles
Search through hundreds of radio shows and podcasts.

PBS: Inside Local News Documentary

KobreGuide.com
Guide to the best in multimedia and video journalism.

Media Tenor Institute
Features extensive data of up to date research free of charge. There’s also a free newsletter sent twice a week with the latest reports about the influence of media in public opinion. A important resource of information very useful for journalists and students concerned about impartial and balanced journalism.

Pixsy.com
This search engine pulls images and video from all kinds of news resources. Browse by category, etc.

High School Broadcast Journalism
Resources for high school programs from RTNDF.

NFCB: National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Community radio representative for more than 40 years.

Broadcast Journalism: Techniques of Radio and Television News
The 8th edition of the book includes not only basic techniques and classic examples for the production of radio and TV news, but also new technology and the latest case studies. The fundamental skills of interviewing, news writing and production now have to cope with the prevalence of Fake News and Deep Fakes and verifying content in an endless flow of social media. This edition also includes newsgathering with mobile devices, live reporting and using data and graphics, dozens of new images and links for downloads and further reading, plus end-of-chapter exercises and tutor notes.

Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show
An e-book available on Amazon, this is a practical, how-to guide to producing and presenting radio. Packed with day-to-day advice from preparing your show, last minute changes to running orders and music and talk radio skills.

The Live-Streaming Handbook: How to create live video for social media on your phone and desktop
Covers how to present live-video shows from your phone and stream them straight to Facebook and Twitter. From structuring and developing a show, to establishing an effective online persona and getting more people to watch. This book is invaluable to entrepreneurs, professionals and students working in journalism, public relations, marketing and digital media, as well as general readers interested in live-streaming at home.

Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009

YouTube: Walter Cronkite Interviews and Reports

Google News: Walter Cronkite’s Death

Blogs About Walter Cronkite’s Death

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AI TOOLS FOR WRITING

Lex.page
AI text-generation tool.

Copy.ai
AI text-generation tool.

Notion AI
Similar to Canva Docs, the revamped Notion AI (February 2023) installed an AI assistant that can offer writing/editing suggestions, generate idea lists and more.

QuillBot
An AI-driven writing tool that paraphrases what you say.

Postwise.ai
AI-driven Twitter writing tool

Craft.do
Document-creation tool with AI features

Jasper.ai
AI copywriting tool

Jenni.ai
A good writing assistant if you’re stuck with writer’s block.

Repurpose.io
Tool for automating workflows. Good for autoposting social media.

Vista Social: AI Assistant for Writing Social Media Posts
Uses ChatGPT technology to help you write better social posts. Has a free account option.

Reflect
A note-taking app with several AI integrations, like a GPT-4 AI assistant and a Whisper AI voice transcriber. You can record a voice note ramble, have the AI assistant turn it into an article outline, then have it rephrase your writing when you get stuck.

AI TOOLS FOR EDITING

Overtone.ai
Assesses stories based solely on the content itself, not secondary metrics like clicks or shares to help people communicate better

DeepL Write
Cut/paste a selection of text and this tool will tell you how to improve it. Has free and paid models

Quillbot Paraphraser
Reworks copy into a more professional style. Good for writing formal emails. Has free and paid models

WordTune Spices
Advanced word processing tool. Has free and paid models

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ChatGPT
Developed by OpenAI in late 2022, the tool interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. Still in Beta and you can offer feedback to them on Discord. Drawbacks: Slow and it doesn’t cite sources (yet). Struggles with anything after 2021. But the tool has great potential in search.

ChatGPT for Google
Browser extension that allows ChatGPT to work alongside Google.

GPTZero
Princeton student Edward Tian created this tool that can detect if a piece of writing has been created using the AI tool ChatGPT. Sign up for beta of the tool through this Substack.

TweetGPT
A chrome extension that uses ChatGPT to write tweets.

MORE AI TOOLS

Adobe Firefly
Has some cool features aimed at solving problems for creatives and visual journalists: AI video editing, 3D modeling, text-to-image, photo editing and more. Be careful with ethics when using this tool on news photographs.

GIJN: How to Use ChatGPT to Extract Data from PDFs
A good step-by-step with an excellent eight-minute training video at the end.

Mem
A self-organizing workspace. It’s the world’s first AI-powered workspace that’s personalized to you.

Maker.ai
Generate written and visual content in seconds through cutting-edge artificial intelligence. $25 per month with free trial.

Canva Docs
Canva launched this tool in the second half of 2022 as a competitor for Google Docs. It includes a few AI tools, including the “Magic” tool that lets you type in a topic and it gives you some text related to that topic. It’s good for breaking writer’s block. Canva has a free account with some paid starting as low as $128 annually (Fall 2022 prices).

MidJourney
Add prompts to create designs and more.

Midjourney Prompt Book
A database of prompts to create cool visualizations using the AI tool.

FutureTools
A treasure chest of AI tools

Synthesia
Create a video from plain text in minutes. Good for creating a talking avatar

Murf
Text-to-speech tool

Prisma AI
Code to make cameras intelligent. More than ready-to-use AI libraries & APIs.

Chatbot Live Integration

Munch
Uses AI to repurpose video content for social channels and more

Google Autodraw
An AI drawing tool that lets you sketch something on the screen and Google’s AI will search for rights-free icons that you can download and use. Good for designing logos, too. Just make sure your pop-up blockers are turned off so the icons will appear at the top of the screen.

Google Pinpoint
This tool uses AI to analyze PDFs, strip text from images and transcribe audio.

Non-Writing AI Tools Every Journalist Should Know About

AI Tools for Local Newsrooms
From PAI, an AI nonprofit that partners with journalism organizations.

JournalismAI Starter Pack
A guide designed to help news organizations learn about the opportunities offered by AI to support their journalism.

AI Code Translator

RJI YESEO App
Slack plug-in app helpful for many things, including help with writing SEO headlines.

Decktopus AI
On- demand AI presentation generator.

DeepL Translator
Works similar to Google Translate. Paste a block of text in and translate into other languages.

People AI
From chatbotkit, use these AI-driven chats to learn from some of the most influential and significant figures in human history.

OpenAI Playground

ChatGPT Online: AI Advanced Chatbot by OpenAI
Discover the ultimate collection of high-quality and effective AI tools on this website, designed to meet the needs of businesses and individuals alike. Explore world-renowned tools such as ChatGPT and GPT 4, which excel in natural language processing and writing skills. For designers and creatives, the revolutionary DALL-E 2 allows users to generate custom images based on textual prompts.

Awesome ChatGPT Prompts
The ChatGPT model is a large language model trained by OpenAI that is capable of generating human-like text. By providing it with a prompt, it can generate responses that continue the conversation or expand on the given prompt. In this repository, you will find a variety of prompts that can be used with ChatGPT. You can add your own prompts to the list, and to use ChatGPT to generate new prompts as well

Awesome ChatGPT
A collection of helpful links and resources.

Co-Writing With ChatGPT

ChatGPT Prompt Book
A guide for writing good ChatGPT prompts

WonderTools: Seven Ways to Use ChatGPT
Tips from Jeremy Caplan and CUNY

Washington Post: A News Website Used AI to Write Articles, and it Was a Journalistic Disaster

Makkula Center for Applied Ethics: Ethical Questions About Generative AI

Poynter: How Someone Used ChatGPT to Build a Fake News Organizatiobn Website

LearnGPT
The best ChatGPT examples from around the web

Build ChatGPT-like Chatbots With Customized Knowledge for Your Websites, Using Simple Programming

Hugging Face: GPT-2 Output Detector
An online demo of the GPT-2 output detector model, based on the /Transformers implementation of RoBERTa. Enter some text in the text box; the predicted probabilities will be displayed below. The results start to get reliable after around 50 tokens.

ARTICLES ABOUT AI, ETHICS, LEGAL ISSUES AND BEST PRACTICES

Writing and Exclusion: AI Helps Expand Definitions of Literacy
Interesting post from CUNY’s Jeff Jarvis on how to understand AI tools, not run from them.

Simon Rogers: AI for Data Storytelling

Forbes: AI-Created Images Aren’t Protected By Copyright Law According To U.S. Copyright Office

The Guardian: ChatGPT is Making up Fake Guardian Articles. Here’s How We’re Responding

Beginner’s Prompt Handbook: ChatGPT for Local News Publishers
Joe Amditis of the Center for Cooperative Media has created a new ebook to help publishers with the AI tool. The book offers specific examples on how to write good prompts and unexpected use cases for newsrooms.

CJR: How Can Artificial Intelligence Help Journalists?

Understanding Journalism and AI
An excellent Medium post by Corinne Podger that includes best practices, academic research, links to tools and more.

Artificial Intelligence in Local News: A Survey of US Newsrooms’ AI Readiness
Download a free .PDF of The Associated Press’ groundbreaking report that provides important insights into local news outlets’ understanding of artificial intelligence and their readiness to use AI to meet their journalism and business needs. The report is based on survey results from nearly 200 newsrooms across all 50 states and more than two dozen in-depth interviews with local news leaders. Print, radio, television and digital outlets are represented, as well as commercial and nonprofit operations. In addition to demonstrating a readiness to adopt AI and automation technologies, the report outlines what local news providers need to drive technological innovation.

Journalism.co.uk: Eight Tasks ChatGPT Can Do for Journalists

101 AI Tools You Can Start Using Today

GIJN: 10 Things You Should Know About AI in Journalism

GIJN: Journalist’s Guide to Using AI and Satellite Imagery for Storytelling

Nieman Lab: AI Throws a Lifeline to Local Publishers
A forward-thinking article, written in late 2022, by Joe Amditis, assistant director of products and events at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University.

Nieman Lab: The Year AI Truly Arrives – With Reckoning
Written by Burt Herman, former AP journalist and founder of Storify.

A People’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence

Techzmag: Free AI
A technology website offering AI news, AI reviews, and insights on the latest AI tech advancements and provides regularly updated content.

Nieman Lab: Synthetic Media Forces Us to Understand How Media Gets Made
Written by Sam Gregory, director of programs, strategy, and innovation at Witness, the global human rights and civic journalism network.

Knight Lab: AI, Automation and Newsrooms

The Fix: AI Tools to Save Journalists Time and Money

Wonder Tools: Try These AI Writing Tools in 2023
A great collection of tools in Jeremy Caplan’s Substack newsletter.

Data Journalism: Wrangling the Robots: Leveraging Smart Data-Driven Software for Newsrooms

This Canva training video explores some of the AI tools that Canva Docs features. For more training videos, visit our YouTube page.

The Artificial Creativity Landscape
More than 180 AI tools in a downloadable PDF. Just click on the icons to find your next AI tool for creative and knowledge work.

Analytics Insight: The Rise of AI Tools for Automated Journalism

Why Local News Should be Utilizing AI
From the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri.

JournalismAI
A research and training project at Polis, the international journalism think tank of the London School of Economics.

Associated Press: AI Projects and How We’re Using the Technology

Images of AI
No, it’s not robots. Here are some Creative Commons-licensed images that you can use.

How AI Can Now Falsify Satellite Images

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Layoffs.fyi
A startup that tracks tech and some media layoffs.

Comprehensive.io
Comprehensive is an all-in-one platform that helps companies track, decide, and communicate employee compensation. Their mission is to advance pay transparency and eliminate pay inequity.

Stop the Presses: Journalism Employment and the Economic Value of 850 Journalism and Communication Programs
2022 study by Georgetown’s Center on Education and Workforce.

GIJN: Grants and Fellowships Help Desk

Digital and Newspaper Jobs

JournalismJobs.com
Has current listings searchable by state.

Gannett Careers Center

Careers at the Associated Press

McClatchy Jobs Board

NY Times Job Openings

Washington Post Careers

Dow Jones Jobs Page

JournalismCareers.com

Job Links
A great alphabetical collection of job links. Newspaper, broadcast, advertising, etc.

JobSearchNews.com
A news feed of top articles on the job market, including global job market news, job search newsletters and job search blogs. It’s not a journalism job-hunting site, but it has many helpful tips that apply to journalists.

SunOasis.com: Global Media Job Openings
A great site for writers, editors and copy editors. Internships, media resources and more.

Reddit: Journalism Jobs Page
Dozens of posts and listings.

The Lede Jobs Newsletter

Journalism Job Resources
Slide deck full of job boards, popular hashtags, social accounts, newsletters and more from Hearst’s Mandy Hofmockel, author of the “Journalism Jobs and a Photo of My Dog” newsletter.

Making it in Media
A newsletter for finding a job in journalism.

The School of Journalism: Best Journalism Job Sites (UK Focused)

Broadcast and Radio Jobs

NPR Careers

PBS Current Openings

Broadcast Education Association Jobs Page

TVTalent.com
Site for TV news journalists seeking work. Agency-related site.

TVSpy.com Jobs Page
Audition tapes, resumes and more.

NextStep
A TV news journalism jobs site that helps you on your next step in your career.

RadioTVJobs.com

Bloomberg TV and Print Jobs

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Jobs Page

TVEyes.com
Keep track of keywords mentioned on TV. You can do a free demo try, but it costs for a user log-in.

CNET Jobs Page
A great site for writers, editors and copy editors. Internships, media resources and more.

TalentTrainers.com
A talent coach who does a weekly coaching and offers a free jobs page.

Dolan Media Management
A TV consulting firm designed to “address the dramatic demand for managers and producers.”

US Dept. of Labor: Internship Programs Under The Fair Labor Standards Act

Magazine Jobs

G+J Publishing
Several women’s, parenting and children’s magazines.

Meredith Corp.

Hearst Magazines

McGraw-Hill

Freelance Jobs

National Writers Union
Contains a Job Hotline to help writers and employers find each other, standard freelance contracts for print and online media; information on repetitive stress injuries and other health and safety issues for writers.

Paladinstaff.com

Writer’sDigest.com

Guru.com

Morning Coffee: Freelancing Writing Jobs Newsletter
From FreelanceWriting.com.

FreelanceWriting.com

Sports Jobs

Your Future in Sportswriting
Created by SF Giants beat writer Kerry Crowley of the Bay Area News Group, this course includes more than 10 hours of written, audio and visual content and features more than 25 podcast interviews of at least 20 minutes with sportswriters who share their tips, tools and techniques for securing jobs. Course costs $99.

Mashable: 15 Resources for Finding a Job in Sports
Includes some media/PR jobs.

JobsInSports.com
Visit the Internet-based employment service dedicated to helping you find employment in the highly competitive sports marketplace.

Sports Degrees Online
A library of resources for student athletes and those seeking a career in the sports industry, including sports media. Among our resources guides are Women in Sports Resource Guide, a Guide for People of Color in Sports, a Guide to Jobs in Sports and more. The site also includes a library of expert interviews that journalists who are considering a career in sports would find valuable.

Journalism.co.uk: Five Tips for Breaking into Sports Journalism

Resume-Building Tools

Format
Great visual resume, portfolio tool

Resume.io

Flow CV

RX Resume
Reactive Resume is a free, open-source resume-building tool.

Zety
Resume and cover letter templates

Resume Genius

Resume Lab
Cover letter and resume templates

Resume Nerd

My Perfect Resume

Other Job Sites

JournalismJobs.com
Has current listings searchable by state.

Journalism-Internships
Founded by Adriana Lacy, this site lists dozens of internships and fellowships in journalism, PR and marketing.

NABJ Career Center

Associated Press Jobs and Internships

GIJN: Grants and Fellowships Help Desk

Houston Chronicle Internship Advice Thread
This Twitter thread is full of great tips for internship-hunting.

Stop the Presses: Journalism Employment and the Economic Value of 850 Journalism and Communication Programs
2022 study by Georgetown’s Center on Education and Workforce.

Layoffs.fyi
A startup that tracks tech and some media layoffs.

Comprehensive.io
Comprehensive is an all-in-one platform that helps companies track, decide, and communicate employee compensation. Their mission is to advance pay transparency and eliminate pay inequity.

Nieman Reports: In Today’s Journalism Job Market, Having Your Own Brand Is Key To Survival

West Coast Media Jobs & More
Contains tips and guides for not just West Coast journalists, but all early career journos starting out as staffers and freelancers. There’s an overview of freelance writing, a guide to journalism job interviews, and more.

Bright Network: Journalism Skills You Need

250 Links to Job and Internship Sites
A great list from Professor Peter Goforth.

Inside the Newsroom Job Board
Dozens of jobs listed in a spreadsheet.

MediaBeans.io
Site curates jobs in journalism, digital media, copywriting and communications – in the UK and beyond.

GIJN Journalism Jobs Board
Cool jobs from all over the world.

Getting Started in Data Journalism
A guide to help students and professional journalists get into data journalism.

Digital Women Leaders
Find potential mentors.

NPR Training: How to Write a Cover Letter for a Public Media Job or Internship

Get Published
Created by freelancer Markus Amalthea Magnuson, Get Published collects and tracks media outlets so that freelance writers can find suitable places to pitch and publish their work. All outlets are categorised, and the complete list can be filtered into these categories, making it easy to find outlets relevant to your area.

Stephen Goforth: Job Tips

Paul Bradshaw: Seven Common Mistakes to Avoid on Your Journalism CV

Journalism.co.uk: How to Gain Work Experience During the Pandemic

Inside the Newsroom Newsletter

The Career Toolkit
Guides, assessment tools, case studies, etc.

SPJ Jobs Page

SPJ Florida Jobs Page

Opportunities of the Week Newsletter
A biweekly newsletter full of freelance writing and writing-adjacent jobs spotted on Twitter.

Poynter: Make Your Internship Application Stand Out

Poynter: Anatomy of an Awesome Internship Program

Handshake
Career-building site.

ONA Career Center

ICFJ: Tips for Early Career Journalists During the Pandemic

IRE Jobs

Poynter: Media Jobs Connection Jobs Board

Journalism Jobs and a Photo of My Dog Newsletter
a curated list of journalism jobs from across the U.S. with links back to the original source so you can follow up with potential employers. You also get a pic of a cute yellow lab. Drops Mondays at 7 a.m. EST.

NPPA Jobs Board

Must be a member to use it.

JournoLife
Journolife.com is an informational hub for journalists in every stage of their career. It is a safe place where journalists live, learn, and thrive.

MediaBistro Communication Jobs

Hacks/Hackers Newsletter

Media-Match: TV and Film Jobs

MEO Jobs of the Day Newsletter

Poynter: Five Platforms to Help You Find Your Next Job

Ed2010.com
Search for magazine jobs and freelance.

Career One-Stop
Tools to help job seekers, students, businesses, and career professionals.

Indeed.com
A meta-search job site.

Academic Employment Network
Online job classifieds at all levels.

AdvancingWomen.net
Career advancement for professional women, with free, anonymous resume posting.

Career Resource Center
Great tips and search tools.

SnagaJob
Part-time and freelance opportunities.

Craigslist
A great job postings site.

43 Weird Things Said in Job Interviews

Monster.com Online Career Center
Searchable listings by geographic location.

Top 100 Electronic Recruiters
Ranking of top job sites.

SunOasis Jobs Board

The Write Jobs

Atlanta Association of Black Journalists Jobs Page

New Jersey Press Association Jobs Bank

Lifehacker: What Sites Future Employers Are Checking When Looking at You

List of Journalists Doing Pro Bono Work

The Media Network
This UK site offers a great selection of writing and editing jobs and gives journalists a place to post their resumes and “jobs wanted.”

Society for Technical Communication
Members include writers, editors, illustrators, printers, publishers, educators, students, engineers and scientists. Both national and chapter sites include permanent and contract job listings.

SLA News Division Jobs and Internships Page
Site is primarily news librarian jobs and internships.

JobMag.com

The Riley Guide Job Listings

The Riley Guide Resumes & Cover Letters

Copyfolio
A free website/portfolio builder designed specifically for writers (journalists, copywriters, content writers, etc.)

Linked In
A business site that networks thousands of professionals. Helps you find jobs, locate employees and close deals.

InternshipPrograms.com

CollegeGrad.com

Indeed.com
One-stop search tool covers job web sites, newspapers, and company career pages by keyword and location to fit your needs. You can search jobs alphabetically by state, job title, company, etc.

SalaryList.com
A free real job salary data information site.

CareerBuilder

FlipDog.com

Great Portfolio Sites for Freelance Writers

Jeff Gaulin’s Canadian Journalism Job Board

Monster.com
Check the Monster Board regularly.

Knight International Press Fellowships
The organization aims to improve the quality of journalism worldwide, and trains its participants to establish free press models overseas in conjunction with the local media. Seminars, programs and fellowships with an international focus are also available.

CyberSearch: Writer’s Guide to Finding Jobs Online

Spikeview
Gives young journalists a way to display their portfolio, and build a network with other journalists. It also gives mentors or educators in journalism access to offering opportunities to middle and high school journalists; such as internships.

The Resignator
This fun tool helps you draft a resignation letter.

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Media Defence Resource Hub
Tipsheets, training and more on on freedom of expression around the world.

Democracy Toolkit
Resources and support for pro-democracy journalists. The site includes a list of organizations, case studies, speakers and links to tools.

Knight Foundation: Future of the First Amendment 2022: High Schooler Views on Speech Over Time

GIJN: Five Ways to Stay Online During a Government Internet Shutdown
Experts in privacy and security offer advice to circumvent these shutdowns.

FIRST AMENDMENT RESOURCES

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
A nonpartisan website dedicated to documenting press freedom abuses in the U.S. The site collects data based on news reports and tips submitted by journalists, professional organizations and press freedom organizations. The coalition behind the tracker will use the research in letters, legal briefs and advocacy campaigns.

Society of Professional Journalists

RCFP First Amendment Guide

National Freedom of Information Coalition

The International Freedom of Expression eXchange
Monitors attacks on journalists around the world and laws pertaining to free expression.

Freedom Forum First Amendment Primers

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Latest news and resources on First Amendment issues.

Knight Foundation: Future of the First Amendment

Freedom Forum: Primers on First Amendment and Free Expression

Reporters Without Borders: 2022 World Press Freedom Index
Rankings of 180 different countries on independence across the world.

First Amendment Center
The center serves as a forum for the study and exploration of free expression issues, including freedom of speech, of the press and of religion, the right to assemble and to petition the government. The center, with offices at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and at the Newseum in Washington D.C.

Timeline: The History of Free Speech
From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

Free Expression Legal NetworkA nationwide coalition of law school clinics, academics, and practitioners focused on “promoting and protecting free speech, free press, and the free flow of information to an informed and engaged citizenry. Our members work on media law, transparency, and/or access issues, either as their primary focus or as it intersects with their work on other issues.”

RCFP: Five Takeaways From Press Freedom Tracker Report

American Civil Liberties Union

Electronic Frontier Foundation Blue Ribbon Page
A super resource: newswire on free speech issues, radio, media resources and more.

1forall.us
First Amendment resources, videos, contests, scholarships, teaching resources and more.

Syracuse University: Citizen Journalism and Political Protests
As protests continue to be held, we are seeing more altercations between the public and police. This resource shares the role citizen journalists are playing in digital media, the rights of the press at protests, and ways for news organizations, reporters and citizen journalists can establish healthy relationships with law enforcement.

Reporters Without Borders: World Press Freedom Index (2021)

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Resources Archive

Freedom Forum: The First Amendment — Where America Stands

Media Defence Resource Hub
Tipsheets, training and more on on freedom of expression around the world.

Democracy Toolkit
Resources and support for pro-democracy journalists. The site includes a list of organizations, case studies, speakers and links to tools.

Global Maps Show Press Freedoms by Country
From the Global Post, the maps and stories show you the best/worst countries to be a journalist.

FreePress.net
A national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media through education, organizing and advocacy. Launched by media scholar Robert W. McChesney, journalist John Nichols and Josh Silver, Free Press is the largest media reform organization in the United States, with nearly half-a-million activists and members and a full-time staff in Washington, D.C., and Florence, Mass.

FIRE: Guide to Free Speech on Campus
Book/ebook from the Foundation of Individual Rights on Campus.

Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GLIC)

UC Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement Page
Documents the history of the free speech movvement, including videos and documentaries.

Electronic Privacy Information Center: Free Speech
Links to and summarizes dozens of court cases on the issue. Also see the Resources page.

Privacy and Whistleblowing Tools
A Pinterest page full of resources.

Online Censorship
Have you unjustly had content removed by a social media platform such as Flickr, YouTube, Google Plus, Twitter or Facebook? Report it on this site. Note: The name of the site is misleading. It’s not really censorship as it’s a website, not a government, doing the gatekeeping, but the site does have value.

FOIA.gov
Launched under the Obama Administration, this site offers FAQs, glossary and stats on FOIA requests.

International Freedom of Expression Exchange

iDig Answers
FOI resources galore.

CNN: The First Amendment Doesn’t Guarantee You the Rights You Think It Does

The FOI Advocate

Legal Information Institute: First Amendment Overview

Student Press Freedom Day Toolkit
Resources from the Student Press Law Center.

Free Speech Issues
Links to various legislation and research.

Findlaw: First Amendment and Annotations

Library of Congress/Bill of Rights

First Amendment Project
Sections for journalists, artists, etc.

The Federal Citizens’ Information Center: Privacy Resources

The International Freedom of Expression eXchange
Monitors attacks on journalists around the world and laws pertaining to free expression.

Future-Proofing Media Freedom Podcast
A new podcast collaboration between Chatham House, ICFJ and Luminate Group, hosted by Ben Horton and Julie Posetti.

Newseum Civil Rights Timeline
Sign up for a free account to use it.

Newseum: Women’s Suffrage Timeline
Sign up for a free account to use it.

Washington Post: Are Police Trying to Stop You from Taking That Cell Phone Video?

Florida First Amendment Foundation
A source for information, expertise, and assistance to the public and news media. It was founded as a non-profit organization in 1984 by The Florida Press Association, the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, and the Florida Association of Broadcasters.

Freedom House: Pandemic Accelerates Decline in Digital Freedoms
Governments around the world are using the global pandemic as an opportunity to tighten their grip on information flow, accelerating a ten-year drop in internet freedom, according to a just-released report by the US-based Freedom House.

Protest & Pushback
From the First Amendment Center, Protest & Pushback explores what the movement for Black lives shows us about the power and peril of exercising our First Amendment rights.

Free Expression Network Clearinghouse

Knight Foundation: Future of the First Amendment 2022: High Schooler Views on Speech Over Time

Ferguson, Missouri, Protests and Press Rights

Find more resources on free expression on the Covering Protests page.

Resources for those reporting on the attacks on journalists and citizens in Ferguson, Missouri, August 2014.

The Verge: You Have a Right to Record the Police

Washington Post: Reporters Detained by Police
Story and video.

RTDNA’s Letter to Ferguson Police Chief

SPJ’s statement on Ferguson

NY Times: Ferguson Reveals a Twitter Loop

Research on Police Brutality
From Harvard’s Journalist’s Resource site.

Gigaom: Flexing First Amendment Rights Can Reveal New Threats to Those Rights

RCFP/ONA Help Kit for Ferguson Journalists
Resources, list of attorneys, etc.

The Local News Lab: Citizen Journalism and Ferguson
A great read on the role citizen journalists played in coverage. Many links to coverage and other stories/analysis.

Dart Center: Working with Traumatic Imagery

ACLU: Journalism is Under Attack and it’s Not Just Ferguson

Source: What Data Journalism Told Us About Ferguson
Great examples.

What Data Told Us About Ferguson
Infographic from Simon Rogers.

Committee to Protect Journalists: Covering Civil Matters and Disturbances
Part of CPJ’s journalist security guide.

Seattle Times: Save the Free Press
The Seattle Times, one of the nation’s oldest private newspaper stewardships, has been working on a national plan to save newsroom employment and maximize local community coverage during this crisis.

Medium: Dressed for Excess: Gear for Covering Riots, Protests, Etc.

Digital Violence
UK research agency tracks government spy techniques on journalists.

GIJN: Five Ways to Stay Online During a Government Internet Shutdown
Experts in privacy and security offer advice to circumvent these shutdowns.

SUNSHINE WEEK

Sunshine Week
Official site for the mid-March celebration. Resources galore.

SPJ Sunshine Week Resources
FOI activities for chapters, classrooms and more.

U.S. Census: Sunshine Week

Sunshine Week on Twitter

Sunshine Week Facebook Page

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