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This is a really great article about posting articles to Pinterest. It includes what to do and not do for journalists who are using this medium for promoting their work.

This is a really great article about how to post articles on Pinterest. Author Comment: I won't be pinning this how-to article on my Pinterest page. I'd like to, of course, because I have a board for my articles, and this article is about how journalists can use Pinterest boards to showcase their work. Ah, irony.

An interesting look at the ever-evolving world of The New York Times style and language use.

"Quartz is a digitally native news outlet for the new global economy." I just found this website today. Perhaps others are familiar with it, but it was completely new to me. It has a global focus and the first story I found focused on how newspapers are covering the protests in Bangkok with drones. I didn't know any country had accepted drone journalism. I also didn't know that people are protesting in Bangkok. The layout of the website is very unique. You can just scroll down to move from story to story. It also has a sidebar listing different content. The layout is refreshing and the site has a lot of unique content I hadn't seen before. This is worth checking out.

This a really easy-to-use graphic website. It allows you to create a free account and quickly produce graphics that can be saved in various formats. You can save all your graphics and organize them very simply. There's a number of different type of graphics, so you're not restricted to one type.

This seems like a great book for journalists of all skill levels, especially in the digital world we live in.

This website has so many grammar/punctuation tools on it to prepare for quizzes, and everyday life.

This is a blog run by editors at Gatehouse Newsroom. The rest of the website has a lot of resources for journalists, but the Editing Words blog is a great resource specifically for editors. They post AP Style rules and tips that pertain to current events, for example, the have a post explaining how to refer to "Obamacare" in stories.

Ok, this seems obvious. Journalists are inherently bad at math, but we all should be able to calculate a person's age. And to be clear, I am capable of doing that math. But let's say you're looking at court or police documents and it only lists a person's date of birth. Did this person just have a birthday? Or is it still months away? I like to use this age calculator to double check that I have the age right. This is something that's incredibly easy to get wrong. It's also an incredibly stupid mistake. You're probably the only one that is going to double check this person's age. Get it right.

This website provides numerous tools to help journalists make sure they get the facts right.  I really liked this website because it had almost every resource I could think of in one spot.

Google Media Tools is Google's one-stop shop for journalists. It has tools for gathering information, engaging with others and a tool that uses Google Maps to help tell a story. It also has a publishing tool that could help free lancers.

wow. I would say they crossed the line.