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Mike Reilley
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UIC senior lecturer in data and digital journalism | RTDNA/GNI lead trainer | ONA AI lead trainer | Founder JournalistsToolbox.ai | Author: "Data + Journalism" and "The Journalist’s Toolbox: A Guide to Digital Reporting and AI"
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · Nov 20
I've set up a starter pack of journalism trainers, innovators and all-around cool kids on Bluesky. Find them here:

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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 13h
CHART: Baseball's home run race in the steroid era

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#uicdigital
Bonds Sosa McGwire Home Run Chart
A Flourish data visualization by Michael P Reilley
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 14h
CHART: Barry Bonds home runs season-by-season. He broke the MLB record for season home runs with 73 in 2001, but was later investigated in the BALCO scandal.

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#uicdigital
Barry Bonds Home Runs By Year
Bonds set the MLB single-season home run record in 2001, breaking Mark McGwire's record of 70 set in 1998. Bonds was later investigated for PEDs in BALCO investigation.
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 14h
#AI tools for transcribing #audio, editing it and creating podcasts on The Journalist's Toolbox™: journaliststoolbox.ai/transcriptio...

#podcasting #transcription
Journalist'sToolbox.AI: Audio | podcast | transcribe
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 1d
The Journalist's Toolbox™ Substack #newsletter is published every other Tuesday morning. It features tips, tricks and tools for newsrooms. It's free with an option to donate. Check it out and subscribe:
JournalistsToolbox.ai | Mike Reilley | Substack
Journalist's Toolbox (TM) AI shares tools, plug-ins, browser extensions and other artificial intelligence resources that are helpful to professional journalists, students, educators, marketers and…
journaliststoolbox.substack.com
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 2d
The Journalist's Toolbox YouTube channel offers more than 125 free videos on how to use various #AI, digital, data and #mobile reporting and editing tools. The videos run 5-15 minutes long and most feature an exercise. Subscribe for free:
Journalists Toolbox
This channel provides short training videos for professional journalists to learn new digital skills. Use the short primers to train your newsroom, students, staff, etc. It is operated by UIC…
www.youtube.com
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 2d
Tools for scraping, cleaning, analyzing and visualizing data for news stories on The Journalist's Toolbox™: journaliststoolbox.ai/ai-driven-da...

#ddj #dataviz #datajournalism
Journalist'sToolbox.AI: Data tools
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 3d
The Journalist's Toolbox™ has thousands of #AI and other digital tools to help you manage your workflow, edit and perform other acts of journalism. The site includes more than 125 free training videos

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Journalist'sToolbox.AI
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 3d
#AI tools for transcribing audio, editing it and creating podcasts on The Journalist's Toolbox™:
Journalist'sToolbox.AI: Audio | podcast | transcribe
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
journaliststoolbox.ai
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 4d
The Journalist's Toolbox™ Substack #newsletter is published every other Tuesday morning. It features tips, tricks and tools for newsrooms. It's free with an option to donate. Check it out and subscribe
JournalistsToolbox.ai | Mike Reilley | Substack
Journalist's Toolbox (TM) AI shares tools, plug-ins, browser extensions and other artificial intelligence resources that are helpful to professional journalists, students, educators, marketers and…
journaliststoolbox.substack.com
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 5d
Digital security tools for journalists on The Journalist's Toolbox
Journalist'sToolbox.AI: Digital security | safety
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 6d
Tools for scraping, cleaning, analyzing and visualizing data for news stories on The Journalist's Toolbox™: journaliststoolbox.ai/ai-driven-da...

#ddj #dataviz #datajournalism
Journalist'sToolbox.AI: Data tools
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
journaliststoolbox.ai
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 7d
Data scraping tools on The Journalist's Toolbox: journaliststoolbox.ai/scraping-too...

-Tools for extracting data and other information from websites and PDFs.

#dataviz
Journalist'sToolbox.AI: Data scraping
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 8d
One of the impacts of the government shutdown? No jobs data being released on Friday—even though economists say it's “more critical now than in normal times" given that it looks like a recession is coming.

New @motherjones.com:

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The shutdown means no jobs data—conveniently for Trump
"To lose this source of data at this critical time, it's just a real problem."
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 8d
#AI tools for local newsrooms on The Journalist's Toolbox™: journaliststoolbox.ai/ai-for-local...

-- Examples of how newsrooms are using it
-- Articles on trends, etc.
Journalist'sToolbox.AI: AI for local newsrooms
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
journaliststoolbox.ai
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 8d
AI tools for transcribing #audio, editing it and creating podcasts on Journalist's Toolbox™
Journalist'sToolbox.AI: Audio | podcast | transcribe
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
journaliststoolbox.ai
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 9d
Tools for creating and editing video using #AI.

journaliststoolbox.ai/video-creati...

And be sure to follow ethical boundaries when using it. Resources on this Journalist's Toolbox ethics page:

journaliststoolbox.ai/ai-and-ethics/
Journalist'sToolbox.AI: Video creation | editing
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
journaliststoolbox.ai
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 9d
The Journalist's Toolbox™ has thousands of #AI and other digital tools to help you manage your workflow, edit and perform other acts of journalism.
Journalist'sToolbox.AI
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
journaliststoolbox.ai
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 10d
The Journalist's Toolbox YouTube channel offers more than 125 free videos on how to use various AI, digital, data and mobile reporting and editing tools. The videos run 5-15 minutes long and most feature an exercise.

Subscribe for free:
Journalists Toolbox
This channel provides short training videos for professional journalists to learn new digital skills. Use the short primers to train your newsroom, students, staff, etc. It is operated by UIC…
www.youtube.com
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 10d
Tools for scraping, cleaning, analyzing and visualizing data for news stories on The Journalist's Toolbox™: journaliststoolbox.ai/ai-driven-da...

#ddj #dataviz #datajournalism
Journalist'sToolbox.AI: Data tools
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
journaliststoolbox.ai
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 11d
The Journalist's Toolbox™ Substack #newsletter is published every other Tuesday morning. It features tips, tricks and tools for newsrooms. It's free with an option to donate. Check it out and subscribe.
JournalistsToolbox.ai | Mike Reilley | Substack
Journalist's Toolbox (TM) AI shares tools, plug-ins, browser extensions and other artificial intelligence resources that are helpful to professional journalists, students, educators, marketers and…
journaliststoolbox.substack.com
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 11d
Data scraping tools on The Journalist's Toolbox: journaliststoolbox.ai/scraping-too...

-Tools for extracting data and other information from websites and PDFs.

#ddj
Journalist'sToolbox.AI: Data scraping
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
journaliststoolbox.ai
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 12d
Tools for creating and editing video using AI.
Journalist'sToolbox.AI: Video creation | editing
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
journaliststoolbox.ai
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 13d
Digital security and safety resources for reporters and editors on The Journalist's Toolbox
Journalist'sToolbox.AI: Digital security | safety
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
journaliststoolbox.ai
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 13d
#AI tools for transcribing #audio, editing it and creating podcasts on Journalist's Toolbox™

journaliststoolbox.ai/transcriptio...

#podcasting #transcription #aitools
Journalist'sToolbox.AI: Audio | podcast | transcribe
Look at journalism's future, not its past.
journaliststoolbox.ai
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 14d
TRAINING VIDEOS: We added eight new AI tool training videos to the Journalist's Toolbox YouTube page this summer:

-- Custom GPTs
-- New NotebookLM features
-- Julius AI
-- Google Veo
-- Kagi search
-- LLM Journalism Tool Advisor
Journalists Toolbox
This channel provides short training videos for professional journalists to learn new digital skills. Use the short primers to train your newsroom, students, staff, etc. It is operated by UIC…
www.youtube.com
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