Technology
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.
Addressing the latest wave of coronavirus misinformation
First Draft created a special section on COVID-19 in its Basic Toolkit for verification. ONA quickly published a COVID-19 Misinformation Playbook and SPJ’s Journalist’s Toolbox maintains its own page of resources for fact-checking coronavirus information. Using these guides and a few select tools can help journalists verify facts and fight misinformation.
Q&A: What a newsroom learned switching story budgets to Airtable
Save time, collaborate, integrate with new tools and share records requests.