The Journalist’s Toolbox is a continuously updated list links to useful links and resources for reporters, editors and academics on a wide range of topics including copy editing, search engines, business news, ethics and global journalism.  The service is hosted by the Society of Professional Journalists in Indianapolis, Indiana, US.

The list of links is curated by online journalism instructor Mike Reilly for the Society of Professional Journalists in Indianapolis, Indiana, US.

“The Journalist’s Toolbox started as 10 links off an online news-writing syllabus when I taught at Medill in the late 1990s,” explained Reilly in a recent interview with ProfNet. “I turned it into a dot-com in 2000, sold it to the American Press Institute in 2002, then resold to SPJ (Society of Professional Journalists) in 2007. SPJ has been a great home for the Toolbox and elevated what we can do with it. I update the site 2-3 times a week with helpful tools for journalists. The site is organized by beats/topics for newsrooms.”

Recent content can be found on the main index. For the complete content, visitors are invited to visit the extensive monthly archives, dating back to March 2006, or go directly to the category pages.

Reilly shares newly added tools and resources via the site’s Twitter account @journtoolbox, which currently boasts nearly 12,000 followers, and welcomes new tips and links at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Further reading:
An interview with Mike Reilly by Maria Perez for ProfNet on the topic of online news for journalists, January 2012

Published: June 13, 2012