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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.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Simple tools and tips to help you get better results, faster.
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Google Alerts: Stay in the know.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Follow the breaking stories that are important to you.
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Google Scholar: Access court cases, academic papers and sources.

lesson 15 minutes Beginner
Quickly find hard facts and expert opinions.
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Google News Archive: Access the past.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Discover historical digital publications and scanned newspapers.
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Reverse Image Search: Verifying photos.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Find photographs and uncover their backstories.
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Google Street View: Verify images.

lesson 15 minutes Beginner
Check the authenticity of an eyewitness photo or video.
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Google My Maps: Show where stories happen.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Give important context by building interactive maps.
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Google Trends: See what’s trending across Google Search, Google News and YouTube.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Find stories and terms people are paying attention to.
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Google Trends: Understanding the data.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
How to interpret Trends results.
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Google Translate: Translations on-the-go.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Speak the language just about anywhere in the world.
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Voice Typing: Transcribe audio using Google Docs

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
A quick and easy way to convert audio to text.
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Permissions: Source Google Data.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Learn proper usage and citations for Google products.
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Google Podcasts Manager

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Better understand your audiences and reach them across Google products.
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Covering politics with Google Trends

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
In this module, we will look at ways to use Google Trends to analyse searches specifically related to politics.
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Visualising elections

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Bring elections to life with interactive visualisations
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Google Data GIF Maker

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Visualise data comparisons in minutes.
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Election visualisations linked to Google Sheets

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Keep your election visualisations live by linking them to Google sheets
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Protect your election coverage

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
In this module, we will look at tools to protect and secure your election coverage
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Project Shield: Defend against digital censorship.

lesson 15 minutes Beginner
A free tool to protect your site from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
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What is Machine Learning

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Machine Learning for journalists. What you will learn in this course.
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Investigating stories with Machine Learning

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
How you can use Machine Learning in your reporting
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Google Cloud AutoML Vision

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Learn how to set up AutoML Vision to prepare for the course exercise
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Data preparation

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Assess your use case, source and prepare your data
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Training your Machine Learning model

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Import your data in AutoML Vision and start the training process
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Evaluate and Test

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
How to interpret the output of your model and evaluate its performance
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Machine Learning, journalism and you

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
How machine learning is entering your personal and professional life.
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Is Machine Learning the same thing as AI?

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Take a bird's eye view of machine learning within the AI landscape.
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Different approaches to Machine Learning

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Learn to recognise what defines different machine learning solutions.
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How you can use Machine Learning

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Understand in what cases ML might be the solution to your problem.
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How does a machine learn?

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
A step-by-step overview of the ML training process.
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Bias in Machine Learning

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Understand what ML bias is and how to avoid it.
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Looking ahead to ML-powered journalism 1

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Key learnings and recommended resources to deepen your ML knowledge.
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Basics of Google Trends

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
This beginner’s course will teach you the basics of Google Trends, using the free Trends Explore tool.
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Advanced Google Trends

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Become a master of the Trends Explore tool with these simple tips for extracting precise data.
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Storytelling with Google Trends

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Learn ways to contextualize Google Trends data and integrate it into your reporting.
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Google Earth creation tools: Tell your story across the world

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
How to use Google Earth to create compelling stories
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Introduction to Google Earth Studio

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
A fully functional animation studio for Google Earth imagery.
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Google Earth Timelapse: Observing change

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Observe how the earth has changed over the course of the last 35 years.
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Pinpoint: A research tool for journalists

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Explore and analyze thousands of documents with Google's research tool, Pinpoint.
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Google Finance: Research company performance

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Google Finance allows you to track companies across 53 exchanges on five continents.
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Access Google Finance data in Sheets

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Access Google Finance data in Google Sheets. Examine closing prices, percentage change or market movement over any timeframe.
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Google Sheets: Visualizing data

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Learn to build visualizations that help you interpret the data and tell data-driven stories.
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Visualising Data: Flourish templates.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
A simple tool to help newsrooms create beautiful graphics.
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Data Source: Global Forest Watch.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Deforestation data and monitoring tools.
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Global Fishing Watch: Monitor fishing fleets and vessels

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
A guide to using Global Fishing Watch’s mapping tool to track global fishing activity.
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Introduction to Google Earth Engine

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Use a multi-petabyte library of satellite imagery and data to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface
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Google Fact Check Tools

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
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.
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Verification: Google Search

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Master advanced search shortcuts to filter results by date, relevance and language.
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Verification: Google Image Search

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Find visually similar images.
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Verification: Advanced Reverse Image Search

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
How to separate genuine eyewitness accounts from misattributed content.
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Verification: Chrome Plugins and Extensions

lesson 15 minutes Beginner
How to speed up the verification process using Google Chrome.
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Google Earth: Pinpoint eyewitness locations.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Find out where a photo was taken and when it was uploaded.
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Google Translate: Verify content in 100+ languages.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Interpret descriptions, uploader information and place names.
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2-Step Verification: Stronger security for your Google account.

lesson 15 minutes Beginner
Add an extra layer of protection beyond your password.
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Password Alert: Protect yourself from password theft.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
This simple Chrome extension is your first line of defense.
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Advanced Protection

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
The strongest security for your Google account.
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Google Historical Imagery: Google Earth Pro, Maps and Timelapse

lesson 15 minutes Beginner
Find out where a photo was taken and when it was uploaded.
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YouTube: A storytelling tool.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Find out how to cultivate and maintain a YouTube audience.
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YouTube Creator Academy: Improving your YouTube skills

lesson 15 minutes Beginner
Learn how to access and choose lessons that help strengthen your presence.
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Google Sheets: Scraping data from the internet

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Build your own data sets using Google Sheets.
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Google Sheets: Cleaning data

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Prepare your data for analysis and visualization.
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Dataset Search Quickstart Guide

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Search across millions of datasets on the web
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Data Studio: Make interactive data visualizations

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Give life to your datasets by creating powerful interactive visualizations with an easy-to-use studio.
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Visualising Data: Introduction to Tilegrams.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
A new way to map data.
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Visualising Data: Advanced Tilegrams.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Generate your own Tilegram from data.
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Public Data Explorer: Access a world of data.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Use high-quality data sets to create compelling visuals.
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Google Trends: Improving your search results.

lesson 15 minutes Beginner
Refine your queries to get more useful data.
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Data Source: Election Databot.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
A robust tool to help journalists cover U.S. elections.
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Google Consumer Surveys: Gain real insights.

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
Gather data from real people by creating your own web surveys.

GNI Live

lesson 30 minutes Beginner
GNI Live

Looking ahead to ML-powered journalism

lesson 5 minutes Beginner
A step-by-step summary and where to learn more