If you’ve got extra time to curl up with a book this holiday season, how about a book by a fellow journalist? Poynter published a list of reading suggestions a few weeks ago. You can find it here.  

Google is offering a suite of tools to journalists to assist with the crunching of data for long-term investigative projects. The Journalist Studio is a collection of tools that use technology to help reporters to their work more efficiently, securely, and creatively. You can read more about it here.

Last January, a person involved in local emergency management asked the Office of Open Government, part of the state Justice Department, whether emergency preparedness coalitions run by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) are subject to the state’s open meetings and open records laws. The answer to this question, it turns out, is yes.… Read More: Column: State must do more to promote openness »