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Tools for Journalists

Reference Resources for Journalists:

The Journalist's Resource: Knowledge-based reporting is a Carnegie-Knight Initiative.
- Policy Studies provides reliable and timely research on the environment, economics, society and government.
- Reference provides access to skills-based material on reporting, writing, style and the foundations of journalism.

Social Media Resources:

Twitter - communicate in 140 characters or less
Pinterest - social bookmarking/pinning site
Reddit - post and vote on top posted stories
Stumbleupon - recommends sites based on interests
Buzzfeed - shared stories based on interest topics
Crowd Signal - create polls
Ebby - a fast and accurate automated transcription service that supports more than 100 languages and dialects
FARK - online news aggregator and social media site
Google Trends - compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics
Google Docs - allows you to create and share work online

Blogging Tools

Aggregated Data

Try These Data Visualization Tools:

Try These Image and Auditing Tools :

Image Editors:

Getting Data from the Web. Found in Gray, J. , Bounegru, L, & Chambers, L (2016). Data Journalist's Handbook. Retrieved from: http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/index.html (Creative Commons License from the Open Knowledge Foundation).
Using Python to scrape a website and gather data: Practicing on a criminal justice dataset. (2015, July 9). Journalist Resource. Retrieved from http://journalistsresource.org/tip-sheets/research/python-scrape-website-data-criminal-justice
Sunne, S. (2016). How to scrape without programming. A presentation at the March 2016 NICAR Conference. Retrieved from https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zMvbeYhZZmv_PBsXIJAvwjr9i2UujEgp76DjQOA_-u4/edit#slide=id.p