New Apps for Reporters Help Cover Schools, Courts, and Cops

Three new apps from a journalism advocacy organization will help reporters cover crime, police, and schools while in the field.

Police in riot gear push everyone, including all media, back away from smoke that is arising around a building in Ferguson, Mo., on Nov. 25, 2014. Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times

To celebrate a week that honors open records, Sunshine Week, a journalism rights and ethics foundation launched three mobile apps to help reporters in their work.

The Washington, D.C.-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) launched the mobile apps to give journalists working in the field help when they need answers to questions on the go about the ethics of covering schools, the right to record, and how to access information from police and courts.

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