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Learn about the best digital tools and resources from Google and beyond, to help you find, verify and tell engaging stories. Take a course to discover Newsgathering, Data & Visualization and Specialist topics.
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Advanced Search: Researching with precision.
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Simple tools and tips to help you get better results, faster.
Google Scholar: Access court cases, academic papers and sources.
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Quickly find hard facts and expert opinions.
Google News Archive: Access the past.
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Discover historical digital publications and scanned newspapers.
Google My Maps: Show where stories happen.
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Give important context by building interactive maps.
Google Trends: See what’s trending across Google Search, Google News and YouTube.
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Find stories and terms people are paying attention to.
Google Translate: Translations on-the-go.
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Speak the language just about anywhere in the world.
Google Podcasts Manager
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Better understand your audiences and reach them across Google products.
Covering politics with Google Trends
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In this module, we will look at ways to use Google Trends to analyze searches specifically related to politics.
Election visualizations linked to Google Sheets
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Keep your election visualizations live by linking them to Google sheets
Protect your election coverage
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In this module, we will look at tools to protect and secure your election coverage
Project Shield: Defend against digital censorship.
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A free tool to protect your site from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
Investigating stories with Machine Learning
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How you can use Machine Learning in your reporting
Google Cloud AutoML Vision
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Learn how to set up AutoML Vision to prepare for the course exercise
Training your Machine Learning model
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Import your data in AutoML Vision and start the training process
Machine Learning, journalism and you
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How machine learning is entering your personal and professional life.
Is Machine Learning the same thing as AI?
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Take a bird's eye view of machine learning within the AI landscape.
Different approaches to Machine Learning
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Learn to recognize what defines different machine learning solutions.
How you can use Machine Learning
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Understand in what cases ML might be the solution to your problem.
Basics of Google Trends
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This beginner’s course will teach you the basics of Google Trends, using the free Trends Explore tool.
Advanced Google Trends
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Become a master of the Trends Explore tool with these simple tips for extracting precise data.
Storytelling with Google Trends
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Learn ways to contextualize Google Trends data and integrate it into your reporting.
Google Earth creation tools: Tell your story across the world
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How to use Google Earth to create compelling stories
Google Earth Timelapse: Observing change
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Observe how the earth has changed over the course of the last 35 years.
Pinpoint: A research tool for journalists
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Explore and analyze thousands of documents with Google's research tool, Pinpoint.
Google Finance: Research company performance
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Google Finance allows you to track companies across 53 exchanges on five continents.
Access Google Finance data in Sheets
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Access Google Finance data in Google Sheets. Examine closing prices, percentage change or market movement over any timeframe.
Google Sheets: Visualizing data
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Learn to build visualizations that help you interpret the data and tell data-driven stories.
Global Fishing Watch: Monitor fishing fleets and vessels
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A guide to using Global Fishing Watch’s mapping tool to track global fishing activity.
Introduction to Google Earth Engine
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Use a multi-petabyte library of satellite imagery and data to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface
Google Fact Check Tools
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These tools allow you to search for stories and images that have already been debunked and lets you add ClaimReview markup to your own fact checks.
Verification: Google Search
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Master advanced search shortcuts to filter results by date, relevance and language.
Verification: Advanced Reverse Image Search
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How to separate genuine eyewitness accounts from misattributed content.
Verification: Chrome Plugins and Extensions
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How to speed up the verification process using Google Chrome.
Google Earth: Pinpoint eyewitness locations.
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Find out where a photo was taken and when it was uploaded.
Google Translate: Verify content in 100+ languages.
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Interpret descriptions, uploader information and place names.
2-Step Verification: Stronger security for your Google account.
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Add an extra layer of protection beyond your password.
Password Alert: Protect yourself from password theft.
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This simple Chrome extension is your first line of defense.
Google Historical Imagery: Google Earth Pro, Maps and Timelapse
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Find out where a photo was taken and when it was uploaded.
YouTube Creator Academy: Improving your YouTube skills
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Learn how to access and choose lessons that help strengthen your presence.
Data Studio: Make interactive data visualizations
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Give life to your datasets by creating powerful interactive visualizations with an easy-to-use studio.
Public Data Explorer: Access a world of data.
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Use high-quality data sets to create compelling visuals.
What are Web Stories?
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How the easy-to-use vertical video format is changing the face of digital storytelling and driving the connection between content makers and their fans.
How to make a good Web Story
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Creating a strong, compelling Web Story is as easy as creating an article or a video, and the interactive nature of Web Stories plays to the rapidly shifting desires and demands of online audiences.
How to make them using WordPress
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WordPress is the standard for so many content makers, and now the ability to create Web Stories is built right into the platform.
How to make them using makestories.io
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makestories.io is a platform specially created to help people make, publish, and monetize Google Web Stories. It’s free, and it can be used with any content management system. Here are the basics of how to get started with makestories.io.
How to add them to your site
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There are two ways to add Web Stories to your site, regardless of the CMS you use to maintain it. Each approach is simple, intuitive, and poised to make Web Stories a vital part of your content strategy going forward.
Looking ahead to ML-powered journalism
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Key learnings and recommended resources to deepen your ML knowledge.
Video: Google tools for fact-checkers
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Explore digital tools designed specifically for fact-checkers and journalists
Video: Keeping journalists safe online
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Enhance your online safety as a journalist with best practices and tools from Google.
Video: Google Earth and mapping technologies for journalists
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Discover how journalists can use Google Earth and mapping technologies
Video: Getting started with Pinpoint
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Explore and analyse thousands of documents with Google's research tool, Pinpoint.
Video: Getting started with Google Trends
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Google Trends allows you to explore a sample of search requests, by topic and over time.
Introduction to AI for Journalists
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Learn about Google's approach to AI and how our products can support newsrooms.
Introduction to AI for News Business Teams
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Learn about Google's approach to AI and how our products can support news business teams.
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