Journalism and Communication: Tools

Maps, databases, data analysis and visualization

This website is dedicated to providing anyone interested in getting started with data driven journalism with a collection of learning resources, including relevant events, tools, tutorials, interviews and case studies.

Blog discussing "data journalism"-journalism which uses publicly-available data as a basis for reporting. It is also sometimes called "data-driven journalism".

Web-based of version of book to be published summer/fall 2012

Data journalism and data visualization from the Datablog

Article discussing the use of data in narrative storytelling

Data collection and visualization tools

This page offers links to a Tool Box of ideas, strategies and techniques about how to produce and understand journalism. The materials were collected by the Committee of Concerned Journalists, a consortium of more than 7,000 working in news around the world.

The Reporter’s Lab is a project of Duke and is a home for techniques, tools and research to support a vital phase of journalism sometimes left behind by advances in publishing, information provision, social media and other technological innovations in news.

Review and directory of journalism tools complied by the Duke University Reporters' Lab

Directory of web-based tools compiled by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia

Easily draw diagrams online using Creately’s online diagramming tool. Start drawing any diagram type now using free templates and examples

Create a flowchart, mind map, network diagram, UML diagram, wireframe and other drawings online with Lucidchart's free flowchart software and diagram tool.

Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that features a zoomable canvas that allows for exploration of ideas and the connections between them

Data collection and visualization tools

Upload & Share PowerPoint presentations and documents

Allows users to create infographics and visualizations that give readers a new way of experiencing data.

Enhance your social media management with HootSuite, the leading social media dashboard. Manage multiple networks and profiles and measure your campaign results

Posting can be done by logging in to the website's rich text editor, but it is particularly designed for mobile blogging. Mobile methods include sending an email, with attachments of photos, MP3s, documents, and video (both links and files).

Create magazine-like collections

Create stories using social media. Turn what people post on social media into compelling stories. Collect the best photos, video, tweets and more to publish them as simple, beautiful stories that can be embedded anywhere

TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and more.

Social media guidelines for Associated Press Employees

Overview of platforms and functions within the realm of social media