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Introduction to Machine Learning
With help from the London School of Economics and Political Science, VRT News and Texty our Journalism AI courses offer an insight on how journalists are using machine learning in their newsrooms.
Video: Getting started with Google Trends
Video: Getting started with Pinpoint
Video: Google Earth and mapping technologies for journalists
Video: Keeping journalists safe online
Video: Google tools for fact-checkers
Investigative Reporting
From Google Public Data Explorer to Google Search, this intensive course will help journalists interpret a range of online sources to strengthen their efficiency and efficacy of in-depth research.
Hands-on Machine Learning
This course teaches journalists how to use Machine Learning for their reporting. You will learn how to train a Machine Learning model to identify and classify images in vast datasets.
Fundamentals
Strengthen your digital skills by learning advanced techniques on familiar tools like Google Search, Google Maps and Google Trends.
Keep visitors engaged
Engage and retain visitors by using article recirculation, videos and Core Web Vitals.
Increase site traffic
Use Search, newsletters, social sharing and ads to attract more visits.
Start building your audience
Understand and grow your audience with analytics, surveys and tools.
Grow Reader Revenue
Earn revenue from your audience with subscriptions, memberships and contributions.
Environmental Journalism
Around the world, wildfires, flooding and other extreme weather continue to affect our health, our economies and our future together on our planet. Explore the tools to help tell the story.
Data Journalism
From beginner to advanced, strengthen your ability to analyze and interpret data with Google Trends and a range of tools from Google and beyond.
YouTube Creator Academy: Improving your YouTube skills
Public Data Explorer: Access a world of data.
Data Studio: Make interactive data visualizations
Google Historical Imagery: Google Earth Pro, Maps and Timelapse
Multimedia Storytelling
This course will empower you to transcend words and take your audience to the heart of the story with dynamic, interactive and exciting visuals that you create.
Password Alert: Protect yourself from password theft.
2-Step Verification: Stronger security for your Google account.
Safety and Security
Strengthen your digital safety with 2-step verification, password protection and a range of tools to help both freelance journalists and those working within small, medium and large news organizations.
Google Translate: Verify content in 100+ languages.
Google Earth: Pinpoint eyewitness locations.
Verification: Chrome Plugins and Extensions
Verification: Advanced Reverse Image Search
Verification: Google Search
Google Fact Check Tools
Verification
Explore time-saving methods and digital tools to help verify the authenticity and accuracy of images, videos and reports found on social media and across the web.
Global Fishing Watch: Monitor fishing fleets and vessels
Google Sheets: Visualizing data
Pinpoint: A research tool for journalists
Google Earth Timelapse: Observing change
Google Earth creation tools: Tell your story across the world
Storytelling with Google Earth
Explore how journalists can identify, embed or download imagery from Google Maps, Google Earth and StreetView to help visualize your stories.
Storytelling with Google Trends
Advanced Google Trends
Basics of Google Trends
Google Trends
Use real-time search data to track topics and spot emerging trends with the free Trends Explore tool. Then, use that data to tell compelling stories about the issues that matter.
Looking ahead to ML-powered journalism
How you can use Machine Learning
Different approaches to Machine Learning
Is Machine Learning the same thing as AI?
Machine Learning, journalism and you
Training your Machine Learning model
Google Cloud AutoML Vision
Investigating stories with Machine Learning
Project Shield: Defend against digital censorship.
Protect your election coverage
Election visualizations linked to Google Sheets
Covering politics with Google Trends
Elections
Whether you're covering an election campaign or reporting on results at the ballot box, here are a range of tools that can help prepare for your story. Dive in to GIF makers, visualizations and digital safety tools.
Google Translate: Translations on-the-go.
Google Trends: See what’s trending across Google Search, Google News and YouTube.
Google My Maps: Show where stories happen.
Google News Archive: Access the past.
Advanced Search: Researching with precision.
Business Reporting
Build your digital skills on Google Sheets and learn how to identify and report on financial news stories with the help of visualization tools.
Introduction to Google Earth Engine
Access Google Finance data in Sheets
Google Finance: Research company performance
Google Podcasts Manager
How to add them to your site
How to make them using makestories.io
How to make them using WordPress
How to make a good Web Story
What are Web Stories?
Google Scholar: Access court cases, academic papers and sources.
Evaluate your financial sustainability
Understand ad sizes and formats
Build your audience with Google Analytics 4
Understand direct and programmatic ad revenue
Grow digital ad revenue with Google Ad Manager
Grow digital ad revenue with AdSense
Get started on Google News with Publisher Centre
Introduction to AI for Journalists
Introduction to AI for News Business Teams
Keep visitors engaged with video on YouTube
Grow your revenue with Google's ad products
Grow digital ad revenue
Get the most from your digital ads and increase your advertising revenue.
Start building your revenue model
Diversify your revenue sources, estimate potential income and launch new products.
Build your audience with News Consumer Insights
Learn more about your audience with surveys
Build your audience with Google's analytics tools
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