How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Ali Watkins, who covers crime and law enforcement in New York, discussed the tech she’s using.

What are your go-to tech tools for work?

I’ll be the first to admit: I’m a curmudgeon when it comes to tech. I like printing out and reading documents (and recycling them!) and mapping out stories on paper. But some organizational tech tools have become critical for me to keep track of stories.

I was a begrudging, late adopter of Slack, but it’s been a godsend in the midst of breaking news. We can immediately create channels and pull in coverage lines for fast-moving stories like Jeffrey Epstein’s death.

My reporting gets organized in the Google suite: Docs, Sheets and Drive. I’m probably too millennial with voice recording — I record interviews on my iPhone, email the voice memos directly to myself and use iTunes to review them. I carry a recorder with me in case of an emergency, but rarely use it.