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• Tools for Reporters Top Tools of 2024

• A big change is coming to TFR

• If you’re leaving Twitter

• Urgent care for your urgent election needs

• Read some good news today

• Check your candidate’s finances

• How old is that picture?

• Save your eyes by printing text

• Grab some attention for your fundraising

• Watch for your name on the web

• The definition of on-the-ground reporting

• Finding the source of misinformation

• Try texting your news

• A techier way to find diverse sources

• Watch the followers go up and down

• Make SEO easier, right in Slack

• Election tools here we go!

• A good time to buff up your login security

• Find the location of an image

• Search the web in quiet privacy

• Get better at identifying AI images

• Visualize change with a Sankey chart

• Dip a toe into AI with custom images

• Make illustrations accessible

• TFR’s Top Tools of 2023!

• IntelTechniques is back

• Office hours for the never-ending student among us

• How to find a podcast

• Another tool for streamlining calendars

• Try your hand at engagement reporting

• Following money from ad to ad

• Make your story more dynamic with a story map

• Nursing homes: sadly, always a story

• Get a big enough sample

• Use Aleph to follow the money across continents

• Save time by skipping the TOS

• Encrypt your email, easily

• Scan and scan

• Clean those PDFs with Tabula

• To the moon with CometDocs

• Introducing Teddy and Datawrapper

• Your one stop shop for AI R & D

• Picking a newsletter platform

• Top Tools for Reporters of 2022

• When you write, you write

• My suggestion for replacing Twitter

• Stay safe online

• A bunch of tools from the new book

• Pinpoint an audio tick

• An easy way to blur out text

• Pulling in missing data

• Inoreader for reading enormously

• Monitor for new docs and changes

• Export comments with a click

• Make your reporting more transparent

• Get spoonfed updates on Twitter

• Turn on that blacklight

• Cutting shortcuts

• FOIA your way around the world

• Let’s get organized… again

• Muzzle notifications to avoid distractions and embarrassment

• You can even make videos interactive

• Notable quotables

• Another tool for fact-checking: the sun

• Getting that cold hard cache

• Turning video into text

• Digging in to LinkedIn

• Tools for Reporters Top 5 of 2021

• Don’t let photos fool you

• Saving time and rearranging websites

• Making it easier to learn to code

• Lawyers, lawyers for everybody

• A big step forward for transcribing interviews

• Share your recordings in a risky situation

• Still the best for outwitting websites

• Data viz right out of the box

• Who wants to make the calendar event?

• Who did that website belong to?

• Free story pitches

• We’re gathered here today

• Have you reddit yet?

• When sending a link still isn’t specific enough

• Create a calling card

• Where was that photo taken?

• A nexis for the rest of us

• Write your own URLs

• Where your notes can roam

• More networks upon networks

• Who has time to watch videos?

• How to vet social media real quick

• My top tools of 2020

• When was a webpage created?

• The Media Manipulation Casebook

• Keeping track of the 2020 election

• We’re off to the races

• The SPJ Race and Gender Hotline is open for business

• Luminate your Zoom meetings

• Get your blocks ready

• Withstand the elements

• NewsDiffs and a new archive

• Who’s linking to your site?

• Add a splash of color to your content

• Who do you call?

• Who watches the watchdogs?

• Watch the goings-on

• TFR’s 200th episode!

• Coronavirus facts on deck

• Lean on me

• Allotting your time in the coronavirus crisis

• Filter out unreliable information

• Keep your eye on ’em

• Weave your calendars together

• How to make a sliding image with Juxtapose

• Let’s get down to business

• Look how far we’ve come

• The Best Tools for Reporters of 2019

• Why I otter…

• No secrets allowed

• Set up Two Factor Authentication for when you’re traveling

• Cover your online footprints

• Save your Fusion Tables before they’re gone

• Fishing for names, fishing for nicknames

• Stop those bedraggled conference calls

• I want the best, and only the best tweets

• See who’s talking about you

• Other people have probably seen your password

• Can you make money on a newsletter?

• How big was that protest?

• YouTube doesn’t want you to download their videos

• How to save a Tweet thread

• A tool to see what the media is covering

• Pace yourself

• Pretty pictures make the day a little sweeter

• Your countless Google Docs can be easier to handle

• It’s pronounced “gif”

• A never-ending To Do list

• Handling huge collaborative projects

• You want a big audience? Try Yahoo

• Soon enough, scanners will go the way of fax machines

• It’s time for the 2018 roundup already!

• The lowdown on downloads

• How to not get sued

• Can a computer help with self-control?

• Make this election a little easier

• FOIA the leaders

• It’s okay, don’t be sorry

• Finding emails when they don’t want to be found

• Bots, but good

• Saving the text from an image

• Who shared your story?

• Always. Be. Backgrounding.

• Welcome to Tools for Reporters!

• Finding sources in the wild

• Find out what’s going on in your hood

• What do they have on you?

• Take me back, back, back… back…

• A Farewell to Slang

• Investigating videos

• Which hashtag should go on your tote bag?

• It’s okay to be bad at social media

• How to prove someone wrong on the Internet

• Pad that portfolio, reporters

• Start 2018 by saving your projects from 2017

• Time to get some last work in before the holidays

• Today we bid adieu

• Taking a peek at Big Brother

• Just bots doing bot things

• Be a gentleman and a scholar

• That TV show where they cut stuff in half… but for documents

• Fighting the spread of misinformation

• Whole lotta somethin’ goin’ on

• corporates are people too

• The reading of the FUTURE

• The thrill of the hunt

• Some new stuff from Microsoft

• SQL or Excel? Get you a tool that can do both

• Another itsy bitsy menu bar icon that saves you life

• WHYY don’t people share audio?

• Googling news innovation

• Filing FOIAs like some kind of machine

• Government officials take the longest lunch breaks

• How To Break Free… I mean, Break into Freelance Reporting

• Secret secrets are so much fun

• Tracking those bills sitting on Capitol Hill

• Whoops, there it is

• A little new year magic

• Cryptic times and campus crimes

• Pay no attention to the man behind the website

• Bursting that East Coast bubble

• Drag and drop yourself into virtual reality

• Something (gasp) not related to the election

• Explore the deepest data without getting your fingers wet

• Stop reading this and get back to work

• Mass emails aren’t (always) bad

• Tell stories at the speed of sound

• This week, TFR goes to the dark side

• Let the sun shine!

• How to feel like you’re hacking (without really doing it)

• A conference call you’ll actually want to be on

• Lions and tigers and audio editors

• PDFs: Pretty Damn Frustrating

• Sqoop! (shoo be doo wop)

• Change is coming to Tools for Reporters

• Here, let me get that data for you

• For those of us who never moved beyond Microsoft Paint

• Cheers to 100 emails, even more tools

• A little bit of NICAR for y’all

• All these files, down the hatch

• Watch out, they’re on to you!

• The clock is ticking

• Charities better stop actin’ shady

• Not a data journalist? This tool does it all for you

• Same diff, different day.

• Now you can get a table for your whole party

• The greatest game: people-hunting

• Journos on the go

• Right back at you!

• Dumps of documents from a bird’s eye view

• Delicious bookmarks, fresh off the server

• Don’t picture people naked

• A tabula rasa from PDFs

• Spin a graphic out of silk

• Doing you one better: an all-purpose call recorder

• You used to call me on my cell phone

• I spy a useful innovation

• For the many, many poor souls without Photoshop

• What would you pay five dollars to avoid?

• And you thought Content Management Systems were the height of excitement

• Some tricks to avoid being tricked

• Slicing and dicing data with csvkit

• Goodbye, fax machine! Hello, web apps!

• What on earth are we to do now?

• Make your audio pop

• Go to sleep already

• For when your computer has just about had enough

• Get a grep

• The best tool for scanning isn’t a scanner

• Shuttle files back and forth across the Internet

• So, I’ve got a bit of news for everyone

• Why, hello there!

• Welcome to the newly undead Tools for Reporters!

• An awesome tool for group conversations

• It’s been a slow month for tools

• Graduating soon?

• Reminder: All internet providers are kind of stupid

• Three things to share today

• The thing you’ve all been waiting for

• What You Need To Spot A Hoax

• Three Things I Like

• Meet Creatavist

• Alright, I’ll make this quick

• The Internet, Archived

• Search Twitter, Instagram (& Elsewhere) In One Click

• Flickr + Creative Commons. It’s a winning combination.

• When searching for data, Wolfram Alpha beats Google

• Remember bit.ly? It’s actually really useful

• Meet the newest Twitter search engine

• This Is The Oral History Of Storytelling On The Web

• Stuff I Really Like This Week

• Three tools worthy of your time

• Three Photo Editing Hacks Everyone Should Know

• One effective way to send big files fast

• Email shouldn’t be such a miserable experience

• You and Your ‘Invisible Audience’

• So you want to cover the news live?

• Everyone can do this.(Yes, even you.)

• MyKarma

• Link Dump!

• MagicRecs

• What are you curious about

• GroupMe

• Make GIFs

• Statigram and Instagram rules

• RSS

• Silencer

• TweetDeck

• Don’t Use Efemr

• Google Authorship

• LinkedIn Executive

• Popcorn Maker

• Search Google W/ Black Menu

• BatchGeo

• Tineye

• Mastering Gmail

• Visualizations

• Link Dump

• Getting organized

• Google Cal

• The Social Inbox

• Breeze Mail

• Sanebox

• Upworthy Guide To Sharing

• Happy Holidays from TFR!

• TubeChop

• Cloak

• Zapier

• Bliss Control

• The tools that power the newsletter

• Mobile Tools (MightyText, OneDay)

• IFTTT

• Speek Calls

• IndieGoGo

• Zarrella’s contagiousness book

• Mention

• I’m Sorry, My Google Overlords.

• The Secret To Becoming a Better Writer? Write More. A Lot More.

• Welcome to the newsletter!