Claude Code skills for journalism and academia — verification, FOIA drafting, data journalism, and academic writing patterns.
Journalism Skills bundles workflows for reporters, editors, and academics: claim verification chains, FOIA request drafting, dataset cleanup and exploration for data journalism, and academic writing patterns (literature reviews, citation formatting). Built to keep Claude useful without hallucinating sources.
👤 Investigative reporters requesting government records⏱ ~25 minintermediate
Когда использовать: You know the agency and the type of record; you want a tight, scoped request that isn't rejected for vagueness.
Поток
Scope
FOIA draft: EPA, emails between Region 3 administrators and Company X between Jan-Jun 2024 mentioning 'groundwater'. Tight scope to avoid rejection.✓ Скопировано
→ Request with specific keywords, date range, agency, and fee-waiver request
Exemption pre-check
Which FOIA exemptions is this likely to trigger, and how should I phrase to minimize them?✓ Скопировано
→ Exemption-by-exemption analysis
Итог: A FOIA request likely to produce records rather than rejection.
Подводные камни
Too broad triggers fees/rejection — Always set a date range and keyword list; drop buzzwords
Explore a government dataset for a data-journalism story
👤 Data reporters looking for story angles in a new dataset⏱ ~60 minintermediate
Когда использовать: You downloaded a CSV/Excel from an agency; you don't yet know what's interesting.
Поток
Profile
Load data/inspections.csv. Column types, missing counts, top values per categorical, basic numeric stats.✓ Скопировано
→ Data profile output
Find angles
Suggest 5 angles an investigative reporter might find here, each with the specific query/filter that surfaces it.✓ Скопировано
→ Story angles with concrete queries
Draft chart
Chart the most compelling angle. Output ggplot / Python matplotlib code.✓ Скопировано
→ Chart code + description
Итог: 2-3 publishable angles, one chart-ready.
Подводные камни
Treating correlation as causation in the pitch — Ask Claude to caveat every causal-sounding claim
Draft a literature review for an academic paper
👤 Academic writers compiling related work⏱ ~90 minadvanced
Когда использовать: You have 20-50 papers and need to synthesize them into a coherent review.
Поток
Cluster papers by theme
Read these 30 abstracts and cluster by theme. Flag methodological disagreements.✓ Скопировано
→ Thematic clusters + tension points
Draft review
Draft a 1500-word lit review organized by theme, with proper inline citations (author, year).✓ Скопировано
→ Draft with correct citations
Итог: A draft lit review ready for subject-matter refinement.
NotebookLM grounds claims in uploaded primary sources
Upload these primary sources to NotebookLM, then use journalism skill to verify every claim in the draft against them.✓ Скопировано
Инструменты
Что предоставляет этот MCP
Инструмент
Входные данные
Когда вызывать
Стоимость
Claim extraction
text
First fact-check pass
Claude tokens
Source linking
claims
Second pass
Claude tokens + web search
FOIA drafting
agency, scope
Before submitting a request
Claude tokens
Dataset exploration
file path
New dataset arrives
Claude tokens
Lit review
abstracts
Academic writing
Claude tokens (high)
Стоимость и лимиты
Во что обходится
Квота API
None
Токенов на вызов
Varies; lit reviews 50k+
Деньги
Free
Совет
Chunk large verification jobs by story section.
Безопасность
Права, секреты, радиус поражения
Хранение учётных данных: No credentials
Исходящий трафик: Drafts and sources sent to Claude for inference. Don't paste sensitive source material (e.g. named confidential sources) into prompts.
Confidential sources: do not include identifying details in prompts. Treat Claude as a public-adjacent collaborator for sensitive investigations.
Устранение неполадок
Частые ошибки и исправления
Claude cites URLs that 404
Require the skill to fetch each cited URL and quote the sentence supporting the claim; reject unverifiable citations.
FOIA requests rejected as overbroad
Always scope by date range and specific keywords; drop general 'any records related to'
Альтернативы
claude-skills-journalism в сравнении
Альтернатива
Когда использовать
Компромисс
Manual fact-check
Sensitive investigations where LLM involvement is risky