Action after Journatic, the New England Center for Investigative Journalism's innovative funding, getting local police drone data, a new cartoon pub and social media tips to cut time and cost.

<h4><span style="color: #469ced;">Tools &amp; Tactics</span></h4>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>12 free social media tools to make your life easier <a href="http://t.co/AAgcI3GZ" title="http://buff.ly/LkyR26">buff.ly/LkyR26</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%2523sm">#sm</a></p>&mdash; Steven Forbes (@steven_forbes) <a href="https://twitter.com/steven_forbes/status/220253355308625921" data-datetime="2012-07-03T20:31:06+00:00">July 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<h4><span style="color: #469ced;">Tips &amp; Techniques</span></h4>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>10 Ways to Tell Whether Your Local News Has Been Outsourced: <a href="http://t.co/PagKn1IM" title="http://ow.ly/bZJ3I">ow.ly/bZJ3I</a> new blog post by @<a href="https://twitter.com/jcstearns">jcstearns</a></p>&mdash; Free Press (@freepress) <a href="https://twitter.com/freepress/status/220220037326319617" data-datetime="2012-07-03T18:18:43+00:00">July 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<h4><span style="color: #469ced;">Innovation &amp; Experiments</span></h4>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Check it out: A <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%2523publishing">#publishing</a> platform for quality political cartoons &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%2523comicsjournalism">#comicsjournalism</a>: <a href="http://t.co/BaEVlJmy" title="http://bit.ly/LNSCln">bit.ly/LNSCln</a></p>&mdash; AccelerateJournalism (@journaccel) <a href="https://twitter.com/journaccel/status/220594139954290688" data-datetime="2012-07-04T19:05:16+00:00">July 4, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<h4><span style="color: #469ced;">Reports &amp; Articles</span></h4>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>How a Boston Univ. investigative reporting center is rethinking funding <a href="http://t.co/vKfOAVYu" title="http://ow.ly/1l4eRv">ow.ly/1l4eRv</a></p>&mdash; American Press Inst. (@AmPressInst) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmPressInst/status/220207116953202689" data-datetime="2012-07-03T17:27:22+00:00">July 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<h4><span style="color: #469ced;">People &amp; Collaboration</span></h4>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>We're partnering with @<a href="https://twitter.com/MuckRockNews">MuckRockNews</a> to file public records requests for *every* police agency that has a drone <a href="https://t.co/Qjygb0gM" title="https://eff.org/r.a9e8">eff.org/r.a9e8</a></p>&mdash; EFF (@EFF) <a href="https://twitter.com/EFF/status/220263505780154370" data-datetime="2012-07-03T21:11:26+00:00">July 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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