Data journalism: The Global Investigative Journalists Network has launched the Data Journalism Resource Center with dozens of tools, primers and other resources for investigative journalists using data.

U.S. Census: Get a jump start reporting on the 2020 U.S. Census with resources on the Toolbox’s U.S. Census page.

Covering immigration: We’re expanding resources on our Immigration Issues page. Suggest a link or resource.

Digital tools: Victor Hernandez built this awesome Medium post, Data Viz, Mobile Reporting, Social Tools, from the Excellence in Journalism 2019 conference presentation he did with me in September. It’s full of dozens of apps and desktop tools to help you be a better journalists. Bookmark it!

Social media: This Medium post, Seven Ways Journalists Can up Their Social Media Game, contains some great tips and links to tools.

Journalism awards calendar: Can’t remember deadlines for some of the top journalism awards? The Institute for Nonprofit News has created a handy Google Calendar of awards programs.

Opioid database: The Washington Post has released the Digging into the DEA’s Pain Pill Database that tells you how to use the data and visualize it from the opiod piece the Post did recently. The team also posted How to Download the DEA Pain Pill Database that goes over the permissions you have to use it. Hat tip to Pam Dempsey at the Midwest Center for Investigative Repoporting for this one. | More resources: Medical/Health Databases

Severe weather: Find resources for covering hurricanes and tropical storms on our Weather page. Also, the Reynolds Journalism Institute has released a checklist called Minimize Risks of Journalists Covering Natural Disasters.

Covering mass shootings: The Pew Research Center has posted a great tipsheet: What Data Says About Gun Deaths in the U.S.. You can find that site and many more resources for covering the shootings in Gilroy, El Paso and Dayton, including resources for approaching and interviewing victims, on the Toolbox’s Covering Mass Shootings page.

Podcasting: Check out Tools for Podcasting, a free textbook from Jill Olmsted. It’s available in several formats and has great advice on editing software, voicing, scripting and much, much more. | More resources: Podcasting

Trust and verification: The Tow Center at Columbia University has released a Guide to Open Source Intelligence and Hostile Communities to help with verifying content online. The Newsroom Transparency Tracker assesses the transparency of leading national and regional media outlets by surfacing the policies, practices, and people behind the news. Joy Mayer with Trusting News has built a great list of resources for professors Teaching Students to Earn Trust. | More resources: Trust and Verification

Verifying photos: We’re excited about this new tool: Reveal Image Verification Assistant, which uses a variety of techniques to verify a photo and show if it’s been doctored. You can upload or link to a photo, and it does a good job of explaining the science of digital image forensics. | More resources: Trust and Verification | Photojournalism

E-newsletters: The Newsletter Guide offers great advice on how to take your newsletter to the next level. The Shorenstein Center has created the Email Benchmarking Tool that helps you and your organization understand and track your email newsletter metrics. This tool was developed as a part of the Single Subject News Project.

Add e-newsletters: Wondering what newsletters you should be reading? Here’s a list of the Best Media Newsletters for Anyone Working in Journalism, Advertising, Communications and Tech. Journalism.co.uk compiled a great list of 10 Essential Newsletters Every Journalist Should Read.

Social media: Tweets to Text is a bot for writers on Twitter that collects tweets into plain text files. And if you don’t have access to CrowdTangle for some reason, here’s a good alternative from INVID, which also makes the video fact-checking tool: Multimodal Analytics Dashboard. It’s a visual search and information exploration platform to identify and track evolving stories across multiple social media platforms – including participating actors (persons, organizations) and the relations among them. It includes a user guide to help you get started. | More resources: Twitter and Social Media Resources

Public records: ProPublica offers a free Nonprofit Explorer Database to research tax-exempt organizations. You can search full text of nonprofit tax forms. | More resources: Public Records

Mapping: This new MapChecking tool helps you estimate crowd sizes. Maps4News launched its new Universal map on June 3. The site is a responsive, interactive map-making tool that can be used to create and publish basic story locators or to make map visualizations of your data.

Elections: Preparing for 2020 election coverage? Politico offers Civic, a great suite of open source data creation tools for covering the elections. | More resources: Elections and Politics

Rights-free images: Creative Commons launched a new rights-free image search tool in mid-May that indexes more than 300 million images. | More resources: Search | Photojournalism

Freelance journalists: The Toolbox launched a new freelancing resources page. To suggest a link, click on the email link in the Suggest a Tool section on the lower left rail of the page.

Verifying photos: FindExif lets you extract exif data from any jpg online photo, just paste the URL of the photo, no need to upload photos to a server. Another helpful tool for verifying photos is FotoForensics, which includes a helpful tutorial. VerExif lets you view and remove exif data online of your pictures without downloading any program. | More resources: Fact-Checking | Photojournalism

Reporting on suicide: This guide is something everyone in your newsroom should read. The recommendations for Reporting on Suicide were developed by several organizations and leading experts in suicide prevention. The guide is based on more than 50 international studies on suicide contagion. | More resources: Covering Suicide

Reporting and interviewing: Harvard and the Citizen Media Law Project have assembled legal resources for recording calls and conversations. Journalism.co.uk has a great blog post on developing new interviewing techniques. | More resources: Reporting Tools

Covering people with disabilities: The National Center on Disability and Journalism offers guidance to journalists who cover the disability community and disability issues. It includes a Disability Language Style Guide that covers more than 200 disability words and phrases, many not addressed in the AP guide. It also is offered in Spanish. | More resources: Disabilities

Covering sexual assault: The Dart Center Europe built an excellent tip sheet on reporting on sexual assault. The Student Press Law Center has a YouTube video exploring how to use public records when reporting on sexual assault. | More resources: Public Safety

Covering protests: The Student Press Law Center has a guide with several tips for student media on how to cover protests and walkouts. | More resources: Public Safety

Google tools: SPJ and the Google News Initiative offer teaching resources for journalism educators to help them teach Google News Lab tools in the classroom. The modules include training videos, exercises, tipsheets and more on fact-checking, data visualization and more. Learn more about the training program.

Ethics: The Toolbox’s ethics page features dozens of resources on journalism ethics, ethics experts and ethics in other professions.

Digital security: Our digital security and privacy tools page has several links and resources to help protect you, your data and your sources. Tools for your desktop and mobile devices. | More resources: Security Tools

Math for journalists: Lousy at math? Download PhotoMath to your iPhone, point it at a written or typed math equation and the app will solve the problem, graph it and show you how it was solved. Very helpful in a pinch. | More resources: Math for Journalists

School violence: The Dart Center has a great list of resources for covering the Parkland (Florida) school shooting. RTDNA also has posted a guide called How Journalists Can Minimize Harm When Covering Shootings. | More resources: School Violence

Covering people with disabilities: You’ll find hundreds of resources on the Disabilities page.