Data journalist – and Knight International Journalism Fellow – Friedrich Lindenberg outlines a series of online tools he feels could be used more widely to benefit the work of investigative journalists and news institutions

The General Election of May 2010 was widely touted as the UK’s first social media election, but panellists addressing a session on election coverage at today’s news:rewired conference in London agreed that 2015 will be the year where social media really comes into its own