J_Tools: Resources for Journalists

Covid-19 Resources

LOCAL

• Onondaga County
  • Executive Ryan McMahon daily briefings at 3 pm. on Facebook Live  or Twitter. Archive is here.
  • Onondaga County Health Dept. Media Releases
  • Onondaga County Covid-19 Website 
• Cayuga County
  • Coronavirus  Webpage
• Cortland County
  • Health Department Coronavirus Webpage
• Madison County
  • Health Coronavirus Page 
• Oswego County
  • Health Dept  Coronavirus Page

STATE

• New York State
  • Governor Cuomo Daily Briefings.  Archive of past briefings
  • Dept of Health Novel Coronavirus Website with latest news
  • New York Forward (reopening)
    • Regional Monitoring Dashboard

FEDERAL

• Centers for Disease Control
  • Cases and statistics
  • General information

OTHER

• Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
• Unacast: Social Distancing Activity — scroll down and put the city or county in the search bar

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Arts Journalism

• Arts Journalism  updated July, 2019

Looking for an internship or job?

• Online Tools for the Job Hunt

Database Lookups

• see this web page with look-up databases

Media Law Resources 

click any tile in the webmix below

Images

These sites have some images that may not violate copyright. Otherwise, all images online are copyrighted, unless otherwise noted.

• • Creative Commons: Enter a keyword and select Flickr or Google Images. Verify that each individual image  is available without permission  and what the proper attribution should be.
  • Free Images: Stock photos

InfoGraphics

• • Canva
  • Easel.ly
  • Infogr.am
  • Many-Eyes.com
  • Piktochart

Interactives

• • Google Maps
  • Timeline JS
  • Juxtapose JS
  • SoundCiteJS
  • StoryMapJS

Coding

• • W3Schools
  • Code Academy
  • Bento.io

Resources from Professor Barbara Croll Fought at the Newhouse School, Syracuse University.  bcfought@syr.edu