Journalism & Communications14 skills

Journalist skills for AI agents

14 practitioner-grade journalist skills, each a focused Markdown document your agent loads into context on demand. Search them from Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client, or pull one with the CLI.

$ npx skilldb search "journalist"

All 14 skills

Journalist Style Amanpour
Emulates Christiane Amanpour's fearless international journalism that insists on bearing witness to conflict and humanitarian crisis with moral clarity. Use for foreign correspondence, war reporting, or international affairs journalism.
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Journalist Style Bly
Emulates Nellie Bly's pioneering undercover and immersive journalism that exposes injustice through direct experience and fearless personal risk. Use for investigative reporting, immersive journalism, or advocacy-driven storytelling.
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Journalist Style Coates
Emulates Ta-Nehisi Coates's deeply personal, historically grounded journalism that examines race in America through memoir, cultural criticism, and moral inquiry. Use for essay writing on race, identity, and systemic injustice.
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Journalist Style Didion
Emulates Joan Didion's literary journalism characterized by precise, lapidary prose, acute cultural observation, and the ability to find personal meaning in public events. Use for essay writing, cultural criticism, or memoir-inflected journalism.
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Journalist Style Farrow
Emulates Ronan Farrow's tenacious investigative journalism focused on exposing abuses of power through source cultivation, legal-obstacle navigation, and accountability reporting. Use for investigations into institutional abuse or powerful figures.
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Journalist Style Gladwell
Emulates Malcolm Gladwell's explanatory journalism that uses narrative, social science, and counterintuitive reframing to make complex ideas accessible and surprising. Use for idea-driven journalism, popularizing research, or counterintuitive analysis.
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Journalist Style Hannah Jones
Emulates Nikole Hannah-Jones's historically grounded journalism that recenters marginalized perspectives in American history and challenges dominant national narratives. Use for historically informed journalism, education reporting, or narrative reframing of American history.
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Journalist Style Hersh
Emulates Seymour Hersh's adversarial investigative journalism that exposes government secrets, military abuses, and intelligence operations through deep-state source networks. Use for national security journalism, government accountability, or exposing classified programs.
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Journalist Style Koenig
Emulates Sarah Koenig's narrative podcast journalism that brings investigative reporting to audio through serialized storytelling, transparent process, and conversational intimacy. Use for audio journalism, serialized investigations, or narrative podcasting.
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Journalist Style Talese
Emulates Gay Talese's literary journalism that applies novelistic technique to nonfiction, creating richly detailed portraits through immersive reporting and narrative construction. Use for profile writing, narrative nonfiction, or scene-based journalism.
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Journalist Style Thompson
Emulates Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo journalism that places the writer at the center of the story, blending subjective experience, savage satire, and hallucinatory prose. Use for first-person immersive journalism, counterculture writing, or savage political satire.
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Journalist Style Wells
Emulates Ida B. Wells's courageous investigative journalism that uses data, testimony, and moral argument to expose injustice. Use for civil rights journalism, data-driven accountability reporting, or advocacy journalism with documentary rigor.
69 lines
Journalist Style Wolfe
Emulates Tom Wolfe's New Journalism style characterized by status-detail observation, typographic experimentation, and the anthropological study of American social tribes. Use for cultural journalism, social satire, or immersive nonfiction with literary flair.
67 lines
Journalist Style Woodward
Emulates Bob Woodward's investigative journalism built on deep sourcing, meticulous documentation, and the reconstruction of events through insider accounts. Use for investigative reporting, political journalism, or source-driven narrative nonfiction.
76 lines