Why should journalists have all the fun?

January 26, 2019 4:02 AM

On the website Poynter, The top 10 tools for journalism in 2018 (and 10 other things to bookmark) has published a really useful collection of websites. Some of the ones that caught my eye include a free audio clip generator (Headliner), a transcription tool (Otter), a project flowchart (Should I Do This Project?), and coffee shop noises — apparently it's the sounds, not the caffeine that make you productive (Coffitivity).
posted by dancing leaves (4 comments total)

These are great!

For investigative journalists, some of the following tool collections might also be helpful:

First Draft’s verification toolbox

Julia Bayer’s verification toolset

Bellingcat’s online investigation toolkit

Craig Silverman’s verification and digital investigation resources

All taken from Fiete Stegers’ Medium post.

Via the @quiztime bot on twitter, which posts multiple investigation challenges each week, mostly geolocations.
posted by chappell, ambrose at 6:12 AM on January 26, 2019 [1 favorite]

Wow, the combo of Descript and Otter sounds literally too good to be true. I'll have to sling some samples at 'em.

Regarding password managers, I posted an AskMe query in Feb 2018, seeking escape from 1PW. This winter, I finally came across enpass, which, while not perfect and not as polished as 1PW, at least does not have subscription-based pricing.
posted by mwhybark at 10:19 AM on January 26, 2019

Oh, and not mentioned but used by me a lot to get info out of personal docs that originated as PDFs is Tabula, which has been around for years. It's intended allow you to grab spreadsheet-style numbers out of PDFs so that you can put the numbers back to work for your purposes.
posted by mwhybark at 10:26 AM on January 26, 2019

For focus that's better than coffitivity, this chrome extension for soma.fm is great. Drone Zone is my favorite.
posted by rouftop at 11:12 AM on January 26, 2019