
Emergency Mode for News
Emergency Mode for News is a free disaster-preparedness resource hub that gives U.S. journalists and newsrooms checklists, templates, training and publishing tools for before, during and after climate disasters.
Poynter’s Beat Academy is a virtual classroom designed to provide journalists from any newsroom the skills to tackle emerging coverage areas, like private equity, and better grounding on key topics like immigration, climate change response, federal infrastructure dollars and more.


Emergency Mode for News is a free disaster-preparedness resource hub that gives U.S. journalists and newsrooms checklists, templates, training and publishing tools for before, during and after climate disasters.

Suwali is a messaging-based question-answering platform from the nonprofit Meedan that lets newsrooms and civil-society groups answer audience questions with their own trusted information over chat channels.

A tool to estimate the points on the Earth's surface where a shadow of a particular length could occur, for geolocation purposes.

MESH is an open-source, encrypted, censorship-resistant mesh-VPN from the NGO BARGHEST that gives digital-security analysts a remote path to a mobile device, over the internet and through firewalls, to run spyware-detection and forensic tools (like MVT and AndroidQF) on the phones of activists, journalists, and human-rights defenders.