OPEN SOURCE
TOOLS FOR
JOURNALISM

• Media Innovation: the ‘Other’ Casualty of AAP’s Closure

  
  

  

  Gregory Bruno
  published 18th March

  When a news agency disappears from the media ecosystem, local news coverage is the first to feel the impact. But media innovation also suffers, as the journalism world will soon discover if the Australian Associated Press is shuttered as planned.

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• Why your newsroom needs open-source software

  
  

  

  Matthew Reagan
  published 11th March

  News organisations of all sizes are shelving proprietary tools in favour of open-source options for publishing, reporting, and content-creation needs. Here are five reasons why your newsroom should be next.

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• Registration, Retention, and Recommendation: 2020’s Top Trends in Newsroom Tech

  
  

  

  Anna Rohleder
  published 30th January

  The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University has published its Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions 2020. Given our focus on open-source tools for journalism, here are our top takeaways.

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• In the news: Sourcefabric speaks to the future of journalism tech

  
  

  

  Sourcefabric _
  published 8th January

  Anna Rohleder, Sourcefabric’s communications director, discusses news-technology development and the future of open-source software with German daily Kobinet-Nachrichten.

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• Metrics in the Newsroom: Introducing the Superdesk Analytics Module

  
  

  

  Gregory Bruno
  published 31st December

  Unlike many CMSs, which jettison production data at the end of publishing, in Superdesk, those bytes are saved and reused by the Analytics Module, helping newsroom managers answer key questions about their internal operations.

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