Journalism Core

Reporting, verification and publishing skills for journalists: AP style, fact-checks, FOIA requests, source and deepfake checks, OSINT.

Pack · 15 skills

by jamditis

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What Journalism Core does

About

A community pack of Agent Skills by Joe Amditis (jamditis) for working journalists, researchers and newsroom staff. It gives your agent the newsroom's own methods for reporting, verifying and publishing, with legal citations and platform rules checked against current sources. It's the core bundle of his Journalism agent skills collection, documented at skills.amditis.tech. What's in it - newsroom-style: AP Style enforcement for news writing - ai-writing-detox: strips the AI-writing patterns that erode reader trust - source-verification: source credibility, image and video checks, deepfake detection and C2PA Content Credentials - fact-check-workflow: structured claim checks, evidence gathering and rating scales - foia-requests: federal FOIA and New Jersey OPRA request templates with current statutory citations - brazil-records-requests: requests under Brazil's Access to Information Law, with portal choice and the appeal chain - interview-prep and interview-transcription: research, question frameworks, consent scripts, and Whisper or WhisperX transcripts with speaker labels - meeting-transcript-actions: verified notes, decisions, owned actions and open questions - story-pitch, editorial-workflow and crisis-communications: pitches, assignments and calendars, and breaking-news verification - newsletter-publishing: newsletter workflows that meet Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook bulk-sender rules - social-media-intelligence: narrative tracking, coordinated-campaign analysis and account authenticity checks - photo-metadata: embeds captions, credits, licenses, alt text and AI-source labels in photo metadata, and strips GPS to protect sources - data-journalism (in the plugin): dataset analysis, charts, maps and data-driven story structure How it works - Install it as a Claude Code plugin from the maker's own marketplace (jamditis/claude-skills-journalism), add it to Codex the same way, or copy single skills into your skills folder. - Skills load when a task matches, such as drafting a records request or checking a viral video. - A few skills point to sibling skills in the maker's other bundles, but each works on its own. Good to know - Statutory citations and email-sender rules carry the dates they were last verified. - It's guidance and templates; it doesn't file requests or publish anything for you. - MIT licensed.

Things to ask it

Once it’s added

“Draft a FOIA request for the agency's 2025 use-of-force records”
“Fact-check the claims in this politician's speech and rate each one”
“Is this viral video real? Walk me through verifying it”
“Clean up this draft to AP style and strip any AI-sounding phrasing”
“Prep me for tomorrow's interview with the county's health director”
“Add a caption, credit, license and alt text to this photo and remove its GPS data”

What it can do

Before you add it

Reads only

Your drafts, transcripts, photos and documents · Public sources you point it to while verifying

Makes changes · your agent can ask first

Records requests, pitches and interview plans · Edited copy, verified meeting notes and newsletter drafts · Photo metadata, when you ask it to embed or strip fields

Skills in Journalism Core

Pack · 15 skills, each with its own page

ai-writing-detoxSecurity scan passedEliminates AI-generated writing patterns that erode reader trust.
brazil-records-requestsSecurity scan passedPublic records requests under Brazil's Access to Information Law (LAI).
crisis-communicationsSecurity scan passedCrisis communication and rapid-response workflows.
editorial-workflowSecurity scan passedManages newsroom editorial workflows.
fact-check-workflowSecurity scan passedStructured fact-checking workflow.
foia-requestsSecurity scan passedFOIA and public records workflows.
interview-prepSecurity scan passedInterview preparation and recording-consent law.
interview-transcriptionSecurity scan passedTranscription, recording management, and quote extraction.
meeting-transcript-actionsSecurity scan passedUse to turn a meeting transcript into verified notes, decisions, commitments, and distinct owner actions.
newsletter-publishingSecurity scan passedEmail newsletter workflows.
newsroom-styleSecurity scan passedEnforces AP Style and newsroom conventions.
photo-metadataSecurity scan passedEmbeds photo IPTC/EXIF/XMP metadata, caption, credit, alt text, license, AI-source label, GPS stripping, and C2PA crede…
social-media-intelligenceSecurity scan passedSocial media monitoring, narrative tracking, and OSINT.
source-verificationSecurity scan passedVerify sources, claims, images, video, documents, interviews, and synthetic media with SIFT and a durable evidence trai…
story-pitchSecurity scan passedCrafts story pitches for different outlets.

Install Journalism Core

Your agent

Runs on your machine.

In ChatGPTDownload the journalism-core folder and zip it, then Plugins → Skills → Create → Upload from your computer. Business and Enterprise plans.

View the skills on GitHub

Runs on your machine.