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Senior Strategy & Communication Advisor @RCAGroup Before Senior Journalist & Editor in Chief @VMMA Certified Advanced Google Searcher & Glass Explorer Fulbright Journalism Award Researcher @CUNY Graduate School of Journalism/Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, New York  Work/Life/Pleasure: Brussels - Tokyo - New York.

Good Morning Ezra Eeman, Founder @Journalism2ls

Journalism Tools. A curated collection of new tools & resources for the next generation of journalists.

APPAGEDON 50.000  new  apps  every  month    +  new  online  tools  &  resources.*  

That’s a new supermarket in your neighbourhood. Every month! With all new products!

And all you really want is a good selection and some personal advice.

Rules for Tools

Pick Keep it simple. Choose tools that suit your workflow.

Stick Keep it consistent. Choose tools and stick with them.

Dig Master your tools. Dig deep. Learn shortcuts.

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The 80/20 Tools Rule

; Focus on what works for you. Stick to 10 tools and do 80% of your work with them. Stay open for new things. Make experiments 20% of your workflow.

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The Right Tool

Good tools attracts attention, raise interest for the subject, add value and engage the reader to stay longer on the page, dig deeper and share the story.

4 ESSENTIAL TOOL STEPS

01 ATTENTION

04 ENGAGEMENT

03 VALUE

02 INTEREST

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Interaction Level Determine the level of interaction you want. Do you push, pull, allow conversation, ask for interaction. Is it live or not? Single- or multi-user?

V Time/Skill How much time do you have to build something? 10 minutes or 10 months? How much skill do you need to get the job done?

$ Price Check the price. Some tools are open source and free. Others work with subscriptions, clicks or have to be bought.

a Story Elements Identify the elements of your story. Which one do you want to highlight or add with a tool? Time, place, persons, sounds, images, relationships, data,...

“ Form/Function Make sure the form of your tool follows the function it has and not the other way around. Don’t distract, add value.

5 Platform Consider the platform your readers will use to access the story: web, mobile, touch,...

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10 Free & Easy Tools

1. Spicy Nodes Create and share radial trees on the web and explore hierarchical data.

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2. Closr

Create zoomable stories from big images.

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3. Odyssey.js

Mix written narrative, multimedia, and map based interaction into a beautiful map driven stories.

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4. Tiki-Toki Web-based software for creating beautiful interactive timelines that you can share on the internet.

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5. Soundcite Simple-to-use tool that lets you add inline audio to your story.

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6. Kettlecorn Quickly synchronize & mix text, photos, maps and wikipedia articles with audio or video

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7. Sprites With a good set of visual elements and built-in themes composing animated infographics becomes super-easy.

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8. Interact Make a buzzfeed style quiz for free.  

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9. Readrboard  Out of the box, your readers can simply roll their mouse over an image, video, audio embed, or text to start reacting with ReadrBoard. All it takes are a few custom HTML attributes.

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10. VIS Data visualization platform designed to assist investigative journalists, activists and others in mapping complex business or crime networks.

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Even more tools A selection of free and easy embeddable tools.

Rich Text

Spicy Nodes Create Interactive Text Nodes http://www.spicynodes.org

Tag Crowd Your own text cloud from any text http://tagcrowd.com

PixTeller Turn quotes into images http://www.pixteller.com/

Interactive Pictures

Closr Make your big pictures zoomable http://www.closr.it/

Thinglink Interactive images for the web https://www.thinglink.com/

Make stories with Maps

Odessey.js Map based interactive stories http://cartodb.github.io/odyssey.js/

Map Tales Create map-based stories http://maptal.es/

Tripline A new way to make animated maps http://www.tripline.net/

Storymaps.js Highlight the locations of events http://storymap.knightlab.com/

Even more tools A selection of free and easy embeddable tools.

Timelines

Tiki Toki Interactive timelines in 3D http://www.tiki-toki.com/

Timeline.js Build visually rich timelines http://timeline.knightlab.com/

Time Toast Create timelines you can embed http://www.timetoast.com/

Interactive Video/Animation

Kettlecorn Online mash-up tool for journalists http://kettlecorn-edit.innovation-series.com/

Interlude Multi-layered Interactive Video http://interlude.fm/en/

Racontr Interactive storytelling software https://beta.racontr.com/

Animatron Create stunning HTML5 animation http://animatron.com/

Dataviz

Sprites Create animated infographics https://spritesapp.com/

Infogr.am Infographics and interactive charts http://infogr.am/

Even more tools A selection of free and easy embeddable tools.

Quiz/Poll/Lists

Interact Embeddable quizzes https://www.tryinteract.com/

Typeform Awesome online forms/polls http://www.typeform.com/

Listloom Create, share and embed lists http://listloom.com/

Comments

Readrboard Increase on-site engagement http://www.readrboard.com/

Sidecomments.js Medium-style commenting http://aroc.github.io/side-comments-demo/

Explore/Investigate

Freedive Transform Google Sheets into searchable databases

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tools/freedive/

Popplet Share visual ideas http://popplet.com/

VIS Visual Investigative Scenarios https://vis.occrp.org/

Mattermap Gather, orden & share online information https://www.mattermap.nl/

Even more tools A selection of free and easy embeddable tools.

Audio

Soundcite Add inline audio to your story http://soundcite.knightlab.com/

Soundcloud Upload & embed originally created sound https://soundcloud.com/

Audioboo Share audio content online https://audioboo.fm/

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