Tips & Tools

Websites

• J-Source: The Canadian Journalism Project

• The Poynter Institute: Non-profit journalism school and research organization

• Nieman Journalism Foundation and Nieman Lab: Based out of Harvard with a focus on the art, craft and future of journalism

• Journalist’s Resource: Research on today’s news topics

• The Open Notebook: Diversity Style Guides for Journalists

• Mobile Journalism Manual: The Guide for Reporters and Newsrooms

• Informed Opinions: Gender Gap tracker and experts database

• NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists — Stylebook supplement

• Hackastory: Creating impact with digital storytelling

• Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

• Google News Lab: Collaboration with journalists and entrepreneurs, focused on innovation

• Snopes: Fact checker

• FactsCan: Canadian fact checker

• Media Bias/Fact Check: Media fact checker and bias checker

• Jeff Gaulin’s Job Board: job listings in journalism, media and communications

Tips & Tools

• The New York Times has a course to teach their reporters data skills and now they’ve open-sourced it (Nieman Lab, June 12, 2019)

• 2019: The year in visual stories and graphics (New York Times)

• The 11 best digital stories of 2019 (Hackastory)

• The 11 best digital stories of 2019, Part 1 (Hackastory)

• Best multimedia tools for journalists (Hackastory)

• 10 best free digital storytelling tools for journalists (Hackastory)

• canva.com: graphic design platform to create social media graphics, posters and other visual content

• Otter.ai: Transcription service

Blogs

• Chad Skelton: Telling stories with data

• John Spencer:: Why journalism might actually be the class of the future

• Aaron Goodman: Multimedia journalist and communications studies educator

• Tracy Sherlock: Pandemic Diary

• Alfred Hermida: Journalism scholar, educator

Resources for journalism educators can be found here