Resources and tools

By David Fortier

The list is by no means exhaustive, but it provides a great deal of material that can be used to educate session leaders as well as material that can be incorporated into the sessions with participants:

  • Background and research of issues specific to journalism, click here
  • For those setting up a website, click here
  • Links to use social media, other than a website, click here
  • Links to information about podcasting, click here
  • Legal stuff–at some point you will have to discuss legal issues, click here
  • More on ethics, including some ethical training sites, click here
  • Codes of ethics, click here
  • More on journalism/journalism training/sources for more lessons, click here
  • For those considering sustainable business models, click here
  • On citizenship and the First Amendment, click here.

Background and research of issues specific to journalism:

Columbia Journalism Review

Nieman Lab

Knight Foundation

Poynter Institute

For those setting up a website:

Refer to all things YouTube. Just search, “How to start a website.”

Journalism Education Association’s Digital Media Site

http://www.jeadigitalmedia.org/

Links to using social media, other than a website:

“How to Use Twitter: Critical Tips for New Users,” Wired

“I studied how journalists use Twitter for two years. Here’s what I learned,” Poynter

“Getting Started on Instagram,” Instagram help center

–‘Dat cheeeeeeeze’: How publishers from the HuffPost to The New York Times are using Instagram stories, Digiday

Links to information about podcasting

How to start a podcast (2018 Tutorial) Equipment & Software

Top Podcasting Tips & Tools for Recording, Interviews, & Exporting (2018 tutorial)

Legal issues—at some point, you will have to discuss legal stuff

Kent State Media Law Center for Ethics and Access issues and resources

Student Press Law Center. Even though it is dedicated to scholastic journalism, this is a valuable site with insights into any number of issues.

More on ethics, including some ethical training sites

Ethical Journalism Network Resources Page

Harvard University ethics links—

Ethical Journalism Network–

Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

MIT associated journalism and ethics links

Codes of ethics

Society of Professional Journalists 

National Public Radio

New York Times 

>More on journalism/journalism training/sources for more lessons

Poynter.NewsUniversity

For those considering sustainable business models

Ethical Journalism Network Business Model

On citizenship and the First Amendment

Freedom Forum Institute

Sandra Day O’Connor Institute