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When it comes to tools, entrepreneurial journalists have the advantage of being free. Free of the obligation to use a news organization’s clunky software packages. Free from layers of tech bureaucracy.
Cheap & useful tools that can help entrepreneurial journalists be more efficient
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Crédit: DR Comment être sûr qu’un témoignage, publié sur un réseau social, est authentique? Comment s’assurer qu’une image n’est pas un photomontage ou un vieux cliché ressorti des limbes? En glanant, sur le Web , des éléments pour couvrir l’actualité en temps réel, les journalistes doivent repérer les «fakes», ces faux (messages, photos, vidéos, comptes) qui cohabitent, en ligne, avec de vraies infos. Sans précaution ni vérification, c’est la faute de carre. Aussitôt relayée – et moquée – à son tour.8 Google Chrome Extensions for Journalists - 10,000 Words
When you’re browsing the web for information to help write your story, no browser helps you pull together your work better than Google Chrome.
40 Important Lectures for Journalism Students
Journalism and media are in the midst of a major transition as citizen reporting, technology and new opportunities for profit are popping up.
Flash Journalism updates - Journalists' Toolkit
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It’s quite possible to find something useful and free online every day. Here are a few sites that might come in handy when you’re looking to send off big files, you need audio or images that won’t get you in copyright trouble or you’re looking to build a portfolio site quickly.
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Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data
Photo by Dan Nguyen/ProPublica Our Dollars for Docs news application [1] lets readers search pharmaceutical company payments to doctors. We’ve written a series of how-to guides explaining how we collected the data.
Explainers often have lofty goals in their subject matter, but we know that different people have different styles of learning.
Eight Tools for effective explanation | Explainer.Net
In our last post on data journalism, we ran across a number of tools that would be helpful for anyone who is interested in how to make sense of data. The tools represent a renaissance in how we make sense of our information culture. They provide context and meaning to the often baffling world of big data. This is a snapshot of what is available. We are relying on the work done by Paul Bradshaw, whose blog is an excellent source about the new world of data journalism. Factual
5 Tools for Online Journalism, Exploration and Visualization - ReadWriteCloud
Storify facilite le « journalisme de réseaux sociaux »
Avec Storify , une nouvelle forme de journalisme vient peut-être de naître. En tout cas, cette plateforme pousse dans sa logique la plus radicale, ce que l’on pourrait appeler le « journalisme de réseaux sociaux. » Ici, les sources d’information s’appellent Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, les flux RSS et Google. L’outil offre la possibilité de les trier, sélectionner, organiser, mixer, avec une facilité déconcertante. Il ne reste plus au journaliste qu’à ajouter ses propres informations, éventuellement ses commentaires et ses analyses, et à éditer l’ensemble.by Mark S. Luckie The internet makes it incredibly easy to save a photo from a website, copy and paste text, and download and re-upload video and audio…a little too easy perhaps. The desire to instantly share content on the web means some web users are ripping others off, violating copyright laws, and possibly opening themselves up to legal action.