Investigative journalism tools by Markus Mandalka.
From the webpage:
Free software for journalists: Tutorials, bookmarks and open source tools for journalistic research, investigations and privacy and other digital tools for investigative journalism and data driven journalism or datajournalism:
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Numerous resources organized under the following broad categories:
- Databases, digital archives, data management systems, document management systems and content management systems
- Data visualization
- Extract data or convert data
- Graphs and social network analysis (SNA)
- Import and transform or convert data
- Media monitoring, news filtering, news pipes and alerts
- Privacy, security, safety and encryption
- Reconcilation and merging
- Search engines for fulltext search and discovery
- Statistics and analytics
- Tagging and annotation
- Text mining, text analysis and document mining
- Tutorials and tips: How to use open source research tools for investigative journalism
- Universal open source toolset
A very useful site that is also available in Deutsch.
Suggestion: It’s easy to get overwhelmed by tool listings. Outline what you want from a tool in X category and go over the tools in that category with a view of selecting only one.
Use it long enough to see if it meets your current requirements. It may not be the latest or most talked about tool, but if it fits your needs and work flow, what more would you want?
That’s not to blind you to better tools, which do appear from time to time, but time spent on tool mastery is time not spent on research, writing and reporting.