Happy 10th anniversary, Tools for Reporters!

Happy anniversary to us, reporters! I’ve been sending you tools for 10 years now and you’ve been putting them to work in your newsrooms, classrooms and gatherings.

My first recommendation was a decade ago last week – and guess what. It still works!

OutWit Hub is, amazingly, a tool that I still recommend to reporters at conferences. It identifies elements on a webpage – like links, images, subpages, etc. – and scrapes them into a spreadsheet.

OutWit Hub is a great option if you’re a bit too shy to try scraping with code or even Google Sheets . It does have a limit of 100 rows for the free version. But it can handle some features that even more advanced scraping tools struggle with.

I, for one, am shocked that my very first rec is still in circulation. But there you go! Maybe I’ll mine the archives for some other gems. Happy 10th, reporters!

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