Part 3.
To celebrate our 10000th follower we asked 30 journalism experts and digital wizards to choose 3 tools in their field of expertise.
The most useful, most innovative and one hidden gem.
This is part 3 of 3.
Most Useful
Google Docs: Being able to edit documents in real time makes collaboration and remote working viable. It makes working in large teams on large data sets possible and has even functioned as a mini CMS for us at times.
Most Innovative
Slack: It has truly changed the way we work. Everyone on the team is more informed, more engaged and up to date. We have less emails to deal with and feel less bound to our desks.
Hidden Gem
Digg Reader: It’s the simplest of the Google Reader replacements, but it allows me to keep on top of the feeds I still want to consume in that way.
Most Useful
Open Refine: Very powerful, for cleaning data, quick analyses and format conversion.
Most Innovative
D3.js: Changed the world of online datavisualisation completely.
Hidden Gem
Tabula: Get data out of pdf files.
Most Useful
A reference librarian — a vanishing breed who is and will always be an investigative journalist’s best friend.
Most Innovative
The Wayback Machine: Here’s an innovation that revolutionized online research. Lets reporters retrieve the digital past that others, through malintent or neglect have destroyed.
Hidden Gem
Investigative Dashboard: A global database of business registries, allowing journalists to track hidden money and assets around the world.
Most Useful
Topsy is my go to tool for Twitter search. The graphs and being able to reverse order search are very useful.
Most Innovative
HDX: the Humanitarian Data Exchange, is fascinating and has great potential.
Hidden Gem
PagerDuty which we are exploring not just for IT ops but for editorial shift communication.
Most Useful
Topsy: An old fashioned tool, but I like the simple functionality in terms of following hashtags and engagement with posts I’ve written.
Most Innovative
Journalist’s Resource: A terrific, probably underknown, resource. Based at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics & Public Policy, the site looks at news topics through a scholarly lens.
Hidden Gem
I love newsletters and am glad they’re making a bit of resurgence. Of particular use to me are the round-ups by Jason Hirschhorn, Pew’s Journalism Projectand NextDraft. The Quartz daily brief is also excellent.
Most Useful
Prismatic: Good tool to find resources and stories on many topics, but especially on journalism and storytelling. Easy way to share stories through Twitter and Buffer.
Most Innovative
VRSE: App to push the boundaries on virtual reality in journalism. Opportunity for storytellers and filmmakers to develop virtual reality content and explore new ways of storytelling.
Hidden Gem
Timeline: News in context. Very nice layout, in-depth stories on current affairs in historic perspective.
Most Useful
Exif Viewer: Best way to readout meta data from data sets.
Most Innovative
Video to GIF: A tool that lets you quickly make a GIF from a streaming video. Simple to use, great results.
Hidden Gem
Dataminr: Huge data force and just the beginning of a totally new way of getting notified about breaking news.