Technology
Capture cards for news: “It’s a tool not a replacement”
Stan Heist of Sinclair Broadcast shares his thoughts on using capture cards for journalism.
Transparency tools can make your reporting more credible
News and tech organizations grapple with the challenge of helping news consumers distinguish trustworthy sources.
Capture cards: A useful tool for video journalists
Improve image quality for live video journalism in the field or in remote locations.
Reynolds Journalism Institute joins with JournalList.net to spotlight trusted news sites via the trust.txt standard
New executive director named to extend the reach of the project’s media validation tool.
The people behind the data points
Weihua Li of the Marshall Project balances the severity and humanity of incarceration through data.
Live in beta: The Detroit Development Tracker
This open-source tool makes property data accessible and actionable for Detroiters as the city undergoes rapid changes.
Lost images: A DAM system detective story
If files aren’t findable, they might as well be gone.
Trust.txt puts the robots to work fighting misinformation
Interest appears to be growing in the “simple and elegant” solution.
Don’t link directly to misinformation sites
Archiving, tracking and annotating can help you avoid directing traffic to malicious actors.
These journalism tools show how data and reader service go hand-in-hand
Want to know if your chicken could be contaminated with salmonella? There’s a (news) app for that.