Journalism Tips

With the Update Scanner add-on for Firefox, you can see exactly how a news story changes as it evolves online.

Every journalist should use an RSS reader to keep up with news feeds. Here are seven quick and easy steps for you as a journalist to take Google Reader to the next level.

Web-savvy journalists use Google News alerts and/or RSS feeds to scour the Web for news related to their beat that pops up on sites they typically wouldn’t read. Here’s a quick tip for refining the results.

Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser is fast, secure and can use a huge variety of add-ons (also called extensions). Journalists can harness this power to quickly look up information, collect notes, monitor Web sites and more.

It’s easy to use Google Reader or another RSS reader to keep track of news items and press releases on Web sites that use RSS. But how do you stay on top of Web site changes when the site doesn’t use RSS?