Institutional

For Newsrooms

Evaluate your newsroom's tool stack. Free for nonprofit newsrooms.

What we offer

A full tool stack evaluation for small and nonprofit newsrooms. We assess every tool your team uses against our published methodology.

Security assessment

Encryption, data handling, authentication, audit history. Every tool your team touches, evaluated.

Ownership audit

Who owns each tool. How they make money. What happens to your data. Corporate structure and acquisition history.

Programs identification

Free and discounted tools your newsroom qualifies for. Most small newsrooms leave thousands of dollars on the table.

Practical recommendations

Settings to change, alternatives to consider, mitigations for tools you can't replace. Actionable, not theoretical.

Why this matters

85%

of researchers can't easily find tools (Bellingcat survey)

0

IT staff at most small newsrooms

20+

tools the average journalist uses daily, unevaluated

Large newsrooms have IT departments and security teams. Small and nonprofit newsrooms don't. Their journalists use the same tools with none of the oversight. That's the gap we fill.

$212,798+/year in tools you might not know about

1Password for journalists. Free. LinkedIn Premium for reporters. Free. Google Workspace for nonprofits. Free. Adobe Creative Cloud at 60% off. We've verified 34 nonprofit programs so far — most newsrooms qualify for several.

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How it works

1

Tell us what tools you use

Send us your tool stack. Communication, collaboration, AI, transcription, storage, publishing — everything your team touches.

2

We evaluate each one

Security posture, ownership, data practices, pricing, available programs. Same methodology we publish on this site.

3

You get a report

Ratings, alternatives, settings to change, programs to claim. Practical recommendations you can act on immediately.

Free for nonprofit newsrooms.

If you're a nonprofit news organization, this evaluation costs you nothing. We believe small newsrooms deserve the same security oversight as large ones.

Request a newsroom evaluation

Email hello@fieldwork.news with your newsroom name and approximate tool count. We'll follow up within a week.

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