5 vital browser plugins for newsgathering and verification by Alastair Reid.
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When breaking news can travel the world in seconds, it is important for journalists to have the tools at their disposal to get to work fast. When searching the web, what quicker way is there to have those tools available than directly in the browser window?
Most browsers have a catalogue of programs and software to make your browsing experience more powerful, like a smartphone app store. At First Draft we find Google’s Chrome browser is the most effective but there are obviously other options available.
Here are five of the most useful browser extensions for finding and checking newsworthy material online.
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Alastair details five browser plugins to accelerate your search for information on breaking news stories.
Three of the five are focused on images, which can be very powerful but are useful only for a limited range of stories.
Accounts of the skulduggery of government agencies, standards organizations such as ANSI, copyright antics by the Blue People as Carl Malamud calls them, are rarely accompanied by gripping images.
That’s not to denigrate stories with a strong visual element but to say tools are needed to improve newsgathering and verification of not terribly visual stories.