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The Journalist's Toolbox contains more than 20,000 free (and some paid) resources organized by beats on more than 125 searchable pages. journaliststoolbox.substack.com
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Back to School II: Great Ways to Use Gemini Notebook (opens the original)
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Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) emerged in 2025 as one of the most powerful multimedia creation tools for journalists. It can analyze information you import from your desktop or the web, then create podcasts, videos, mindmaps and more. In late 2025, it added the ability to create infographics and other materials. Gemini Notebook works only off what you upload or ask it to retrieve. This reduces chance of hallucinations, And everything is private until you make it public.JournalistsToolbo
How to Use Phantombuster (opens the original)
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PhantomBuster.com, which implements AI elements in its software, is a pricy tool but very effective for extracting data from various social media accounts. The software packages start at $56 a month but you can rotate 14-day free trials using various email addresses. This is a tool you'll use periodically, so there may not be a need to spend a lot of money on it.Here’s an exercise I’ve tried with some newsrooms that demonstrates how to set up an account and scrape information from a Google Map.
Remembering 9/11 (opens the original)
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Back to School, Part I: Newsletters for Students and Faculty (opens the original)
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At the start of every semester, I require my AI Journalism students to subscribe to a handful of newsletters and listen to a few podcasts. All are either free or have free options so the students aren’t paying for subscriptions. The RundownAn excellent AI newsletter that features industry news, financial stories on AI companies and how-tos. It’s usually the first newsletter I read each weekday morning. Wonder ToolsCUNY’s Jeremy Caplan shares tools and hacks in this weekly newsletter, whic
SeeGov and Covering Public Meetings (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: We’ve added a new page to the Journalist’s Toolbox — Data Centers. We’ll continue to post to our Environment page as well, but the Data Centers page will focus specifically on impacts data centers have on communities.In April I wrote a newsletter about summarization tools and covering public meetings. But this summer, I learned abou
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