Digital Tools for Journalism
Whether you’re conducting public-interest research for your journalism or advocacy, trying to verify a claim you’ve read or heard, or investigating reports of an incident many miles away, there are many tools, techniques, and online platforms that will help make your research and fact-checking quicker, simpler and more effective.
This session will signpost a huge range of methods to help you search the internet more effectively, find eyewitnesses and potential sources, and see what is going on across the world from your laptop.
N.B. You will require a laptop to take part in this session.
Tom Sanderson
Tom Sanderson is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism. He joined the CIJ in 2014 as Training Coordinator and now leads on all aspects of the CIJ’s training provision and oversees the development of new curricula, funded projects and initiatives.
- 7 November 2025 16.00–17.00