Newsroom Tools

Traveling with devices as a journalist comes down to two jobs that most guides separate but nobody really does together: packing a kit that … Read more

If your newsroom is hit by ransomware, the first hour decides how bad the next week gets. Disconnect affected machines from the network without … Read more

A password manager is an encrypted vault that generates and stores a unique random password for every account you own, so the only thing … Read more

To publish an interactive story on a CMS, you build the interactive in an interactive-capable editor, store it in the CMS as a dedicated … Read more

To verify a video using shadows and weather data, you pull still frames, read the sun’s direction and the length of a shadow, and … Read more

Encrypted messaging is one layer of source protection, not the whole job. Knowing how to protect sources with encrypted messaging means pairing a properly … Read more

To use reverse image search for verification, upload the picture or paste its image URL into a visual search engine such as Google Lens, … Read more

You can scrape a website without coding by using a browser extension or a visual no-code scraper: you open the page, point at the … Read more

A remote newsroom meeting is a scheduled, agenda-driven video call where reporters, editors and desk staff in different locations coordinate assignments, pitch stories, hand … Read more

Building a daily routine for deep reporting work comes down to three decisions: one story gets your best hours, reactive work gets fixed windows … Read more