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The tools our journalism community cannot live without

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21.10.2026

When I asked editors, reporters and media folks on LinkedIn to name the one tool they can't imagine their workday without, I promised no wrong answers. I got a notebook, a stopwatch, a printer, a few AI assistants and some solid life advice. Here is the toolkit, as built by the people who use it - thank you to everyone who contributed.

The notebook and the pen

Before any software gets a mention, the notebook gets there first.

Richard Whitehouse, senior media officer at the NSPCC, keeps it brief: "Shorthand, a pencil and a........

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