Part of the Gonzo Engineering project, this is an ever-evolving list of anything and everything that might be useful to journalists, engineers, and other news weirdos. The bias is towards free and open source things though there are exceptions. The list breaks loosely into three sections: Tools, Sector, and Data.
By all means suggest additions and improvements. There are plenty to be made.
By no means an exhaustive list. The Online Open Source Investigation Toolkit by Bellingcat is an especially brilliant kindred resource. Google News Initiative has some good stuff too.
- Auto Archiver by Bellingcat
- DocumentCloud by MuckRock
- Violation Tracker UK and Violation Tracker Global by Good Jobs First
- Offshore Leaks Database by ICIJ
- Open Council Network
Journalism is an ecosystem, one that benefits from looking inward as well as outward. This is a collection of learning resources, articles, podcasts, and the like for keeping your finger on the pulse of the news business.
- Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ)
- Public Interest News Foundation (PINF)
- Independent Community News Network (ICNN)
- Apology for Printers by Benjamin Franklin
- Keepin' It Real: Tips & Strategies for Evaluating Fake News
- OSHIT: Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Open Source Research
- Visualizing the Past (World War II)
- Essential Law for Journalists
- Teeline Gold Standard for Journalists by Marie Cartwright
- How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
- The Data Journalism Handbook
- We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins
- All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
- Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 by Hunter S. Thompson
- On All Fronts by Clarissa Ward
- Home Country by Ernie Pyle
- My Ears Are Bent by Joseph Mitchell
- In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
- Making Data Meaningful by the United Nations
- Hack Attack by Nick Davies
- Flat Earth News by Nick Davies
- My Paper Chase by Harold Evans
- What long COVID taught me about life (and data) by Giorgia Lupi
- Letterform Lecture: Compared to What? by RJ Andrews
So help us, we live in a digital age now. A growing number of stories are powered by data. A lot of that data is publicly available, with the stories within just waiting to be found.