A concrete tool to help newsrooms cover emergencies

Get stories like this sent to you every Friday: Subscribe for free.Link: Emergency Mode for News, by OpenNews, NC Local, and NewspackEmergency Mode is a set of resources, tools, and training that aims to prepare small newsrooms for various disasters. It’s a co-production between OpenNews, NC Local, and Newspack. They’ve done a great job. As their about page puts it:“Emergency Mode for News equips local journalists and their newsrooms with the tools they need to respond to climate disasters. With a disaster reporting action pack, software and a learning community, Emergency Mode is designed to help journalists act nimbly and creatively to serve their communities when the unexpected happens.”Toolkits include things like a practical checklist for newsrooms covering wildfires and a template for maintaining source lists during an emergency. There’s also a hands-on workshop series and tools like WordPress plugins for live rolling news updates and providing bandwidth-light versions of…