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There are a lot of ways you can cover the total solar eclipse: maps, livestreaming, interactive graphics, a calendar, a documentary and good old-fashioned reporting.

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On Friday, Josh Murdock will load his 2006 Jeep Wrangler up with a two-person tent, his mountain bike, two backpacks with clothes, laptops, lots of supplies and all his camera gear.

Murdock, a reporter at the Idaho Mountain Express, will miss the newsroom's pancake breakfast on the day of the total solar eclipse. The path of totality will pass right over the newsroom. He'll be an hour and a half north in Stanley, camping in the Sawtooth Mountains.

Joseph Lichterman is a little more than a week into his new job finding solutions for sustainable journalism. But he already has a better sense of the current media landscape than a lot of people. That's because, for more than three years, Lichterman covered the media for Nieman Lab.

Geoff Brumfiel, NPR's science editor, figures people will only remember two things from 2017: "Trump and the total solar eclipse," he said. "So you might as well go big on the solar eclipse."

Like a lot of national news organizations, NPR is going big with a plan for covering the Aug. 21st event on all platforms with help from member stations around the country.

Ever feel overwhelmed by all that email? This week's tool offers a way to stop it, at least for a bit.

Kristen Hare: Hi, Ren! I’m ready for our next tool! And also for my kids to be back in school, but that’s another column. What do you have for us this week?

Ren LaForme: I’m going to pull a familiar tool out of the toolbox because it just got a massive upgrade. Let’s talk about Boomerang again. Did you see the big new additions to its feature list this week?

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Last week, I got an interesting email.

Brittany Schock has never organized a baby shower. Until now. It's not a typical baby shower, though.

Schock's news organization, Richland Source in Mansfield, Ohio, is holding the grant-funded baby shower to educate mothers, fathers and families in the community about infant mortality and safe sleeping.

You may already know about a website that lets you peek into the past. This week, we dig into tools on that site that make it easy to save what you find.

Hare: Hey, Ren, what are we talking about this week?