Journalism Resources
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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5 minutes
Beginner
Simple tools and tips to help you get better results, faster.
Google Alerts: Stay in the know.
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5 minutes
Beginner
Follow the breaking stories that are important to you.
Google Scholar: Access court cases, academic papers and sources.
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15 minutes
Beginner
Quickly find hard facts and expert opinions.
Google News Archive: Access the past.
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5 minutes
Beginner
Discover historical digital publications and scanned newspapers.
Reverse Image Search: Verifying photos.
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5 minutes
Beginner
Find photographs and uncover their backstories.
Google Street View: Verify images.
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15 minutes
Beginner
Check the authenticity of an eyewitness photo or video.
Google My Maps: Show where stories happen.
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5 minutes
Beginner
Give important context by building interactive maps.
Google Trends: See what’s trending across Google Search, Google News and YouTube.
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5 minutes
Beginner
Find stories and terms people are paying attention to.
Google Trends: Understanding the data.
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5 minutes
Beginner
How to interpret Trends results.
Google Translate: Translations on-the-go.
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5 minutes
Beginner
Speak the language just about anywhere in the world.
Voice Typing: Transcribe audio using Google Docs
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5 minutes
Beginner
A quick and easy way to convert audio to text.
Permissions: Source Google Data.
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5 minutes
Beginner
Learn proper usage and citations for Google products.
Google Podcasts Manager
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5 minutes
Beginner
Better understand your audiences and reach them across Google products.
Covering politics with Google Trends
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5 minutes
Beginner
In this module, we will look at ways to use Google Trends to analyse searches specifically related to politics.
Visualising elections
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5 minutes
Beginner
Bring elections to life with interactive visualisations
Election visualisations linked to Google Sheets
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5 minutes
Beginner
Keep your election visualisations live by linking them to Google sheets
Protect your election coverage
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5 minutes
Beginner
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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15 minutes
Beginner
A free tool to protect your site from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
What is Machine Learning
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5 minutes
Beginner
Machine Learning for journalists. What you will learn in this course.
Investigating stories with Machine Learning
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5 minutes
Beginner
How you can use Machine Learning in your reporting
Google Cloud AutoML Vision
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5 minutes
Beginner
Learn how to set up AutoML Vision to prepare for the course exercise
Data preparation
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5 minutes
Beginner
Assess your use case, source and prepare your data
Training your Machine Learning model
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5 minutes
Beginner
Import your data in AutoML Vision and start the training process
Evaluate and Test
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5 minutes
Beginner
How to interpret the output of your model and evaluate its performance
Machine Learning, journalism and you
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5 minutes
Beginner
How machine learning is entering your personal and professional life.
Is Machine Learning the same thing as AI?
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5 minutes
Beginner
Take a bird's eye view of machine learning within the AI landscape.
Different approaches to Machine Learning
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5 minutes
Beginner
Learn to recognise what defines different machine learning solutions.
How you can use Machine Learning
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5 minutes
Beginner
Understand in what cases ML might be the solution to your problem.
How does a machine learn?
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5 minutes
Beginner
A step-by-step overview of the ML training process.
Bias in Machine Learning
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5 minutes
Beginner
Understand what ML bias is and how to avoid it.
Looking ahead to ML-powered journalism 1
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5 minutes
Beginner
Key learnings and recommended resources to deepen your ML knowledge.
Basics of Google Trends
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5 minutes
Beginner
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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5 minutes
Beginner
Become a master of the Trends Explore tool with these simple tips for extracting precise data.
Storytelling with Google Trends
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5 minutes
Beginner
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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5 minutes
Beginner
How to use Google Earth to create compelling stories
Introduction to Google Earth Studio
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5 minutes
Beginner
A fully functional animation studio for Google Earth imagery.
Google Earth Timelapse: Observing change
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5 minutes
Beginner
Observe how the earth has changed over the course of the last 35 years.
Pinpoint: A research tool for journalists
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5 minutes
Beginner
Explore and analyze thousands of documents with Google's research tool, Pinpoint.
Google Finance: Research company performance
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5 minutes
Beginner
Google Finance allows you to track companies across 53 exchanges on five continents.
Access Google Finance data in Sheets
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5 minutes
Beginner
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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5 minutes
Beginner
Learn to build visualizations that help you interpret the data and tell data-driven stories.
Visualising Data: Flourish templates.
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5 minutes
Beginner
A simple tool to help newsrooms create beautiful graphics.
Data Source: Global Forest Watch.
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5 minutes
Beginner
Deforestation data and monitoring tools.
Global Fishing Watch: Monitor fishing fleets and vessels
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5 minutes
Beginner
A guide to using Global Fishing Watch’s mapping tool to track global fishing activity.
Introduction to Google Earth Engine
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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
Google Fact Check Tools
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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.
Verification: Google Search
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5 minutes
Beginner
Master advanced search shortcuts to filter results by date, relevance and language.
Verification: Google Image Search
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5 minutes
Beginner
Find visually similar images.
Verification: Advanced Reverse Image Search
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5 minutes
Beginner
How to separate genuine eyewitness accounts from misattributed content.
Verification: Chrome Plugins and Extensions
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15 minutes
Beginner
How to speed up the verification process using Google Chrome.
Google Earth: Pinpoint eyewitness locations.
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5 minutes
Beginner
Find out where a photo was taken and when it was uploaded.
Google Translate: Verify content in 100+ languages.
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5 minutes
Beginner
Interpret descriptions, uploader information and place names.
2-Step Verification: Stronger security for your Google account.
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15 minutes
Beginner
Add an extra layer of protection beyond your password.
Password Alert: Protect yourself from password theft.
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5 minutes
Beginner
This simple Chrome extension is your first line of defense.
Advanced Protection
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5 minutes
Beginner
The strongest security for your Google account.
Google Historical Imagery: Google Earth Pro, Maps and Timelapse
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15 minutes
Beginner
Find out where a photo was taken and when it was uploaded.
YouTube: A storytelling tool.
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5 minutes
Beginner
Find out how to cultivate and maintain a YouTube audience.
YouTube Creator Academy: Improving your YouTube skills
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15 minutes
Beginner
Learn how to access and choose lessons that help strengthen your presence.
Google Sheets: Scraping data from the internet
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5 minutes
Beginner
Build your own data sets using Google Sheets.
Google Sheets: Cleaning data
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5 minutes
Beginner
Prepare your data for analysis and visualization.
Dataset Search Quickstart Guide
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5 minutes
Beginner
Search across millions of datasets on the web
Data Studio: Make interactive data visualizations
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5 minutes
Beginner
Give life to your datasets by creating powerful interactive visualizations with an easy-to-use studio.
Visualising Data: Introduction to Tilegrams.
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5 minutes
Beginner
A new way to map data.
Visualising Data: Advanced Tilegrams.
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5 minutes
Beginner
Generate your own Tilegram from data.
Public Data Explorer: Access a world of data.
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5 minutes
Beginner
Use high-quality data sets to create compelling visuals.
Google Trends: Improving your search results.
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15 minutes
Beginner
Refine your queries to get more useful data.
Data Source: Election Databot.
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5 minutes
Beginner
A robust tool to help journalists cover U.S. elections.
Google Consumer Surveys: Gain real insights.
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5 minutes
Beginner
Gather data from real people by creating your own web surveys.
Looking ahead to ML-powered journalism
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5 minutes
Beginner
A step-by-step summary and where to learn more
