Free & Easy to Use Journalism Tools to Make Content More Engaging. + Rules For Tools + Picking the Right Tool for the Job.

1. News:Rewired
Journalism Tools
Session

2. 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

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

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

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

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

7. Rules for Tools

8. 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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9. The 80/20 Tools Rule
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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.
experiments primary tools
20%
80%

10. The Right Tool

11. 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
01ATTENTION
04ENGAGEMENT
03VALUE
02INTEREST
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12. 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?
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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?
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Price
Check the price. Some tools
are open source and free.
Others work with
subscriptions, clicks or have to
be bought.
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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,...
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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.
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Platform
Consider the platform your
readers will use to access the
story: web, mobile, touch,...
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13. 10 Free & Easy Tools

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

16. Demo

17. 2. Closr
Create zoomable stories
from big images.

19. Demo

20. 3. Odyssey.js
Mix written narrative, multimedia, and
map based interaction into a beautiful
map driven stories.

22. Demo

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

25. Demo

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

28. Demo

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

31. Demo

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

34. Demo

35. 8. Interact
Make a buzzfeed style quiz for free.

37. Demo

38. 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.

39. Demo

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

42. Demo

43. 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/

44. 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/

45. 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/

46. 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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