Strengthen your digital journalism
Use digital tools and resources that can help you find, verify, and tell engaging stories.

Featured resources
Pinpoint
Upload and analyze large numbers of documents with the power of Google Search, AI, and machine learning.
Fundamentals
Strengthen your digital skills by learning advanced techniques on familiar tools like Google Search, Google Maps and Google Trends.
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.
Advocates for Equity in Australia
Media Diversity Australia advocates for greater diversity in Australian media
YouTube
Tools and resources to assist you in creating and growing your YouTube channel.
Advocates for Equity in Australia
Media Diversity Australia advocates for greater diversity in Australian media
Google Search
Research with precision. Simple tools and tips to help you get better results, faster.
Google My Maps: Show where stories happen.
2-Step Verification
Stronger security for your Google account.
Google Finance: Research company performance
Google Trends: Understanding the data.
What is Machine Learning
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.
Introduction to Google Earth Engine
Different approaches to Machine Learning
Voice Typing: Transcribe audio using Google Docs
Google Earth Timelapse: Observing change
Permissions: Source Google Data.
Reverse Image Search: Verifying photos.
An Experiment in Open Data and Civic Participation
READr explores how to build trust in news through reader engagement and participation
Machine Learning, journalism and you
Global Forest Watch
Monitor deforestation data and maps.
How does a machine learn?
Looking ahead to ML-powered journalism
Google Street View: Verify images.
Promoting quality journalism in Latin America
Fighting Misinformation in India
DataLEADS, the India Training Network has trained more than 35,000 Indian journalists
Google Permission
Learn proper usage and citations for Google products.
Journalist Studio
A collection of tools to empower journalists to do their work more efficiently, creatively, and securely
Google Alerts: Stay in the know.
Google Cloud AutoML Vision
Google Chrome
Plugins and extensions that make your browser work even harder.
Colombian daily launches digital talent incubator
El Tiempo needed more tech-savvy staff — so they created a recruitment and training program to attract recent college graduates to the news industry.
Google Earth
See the entire world from wherever you are via satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and more.
Evaluate and Test
How you can use Machine Learning
Latino journalists learn digital reporting skills
Access Google Finance data in Sheets
Bias in Machine Learning
Data Source: Global Forest Watch.
A Collaborative Effort To Fight Misinformation
CekFakta is a collaborative effort to fight the spread of mis and disinformation.
Google Maps
Show where stories happen by building interactive maps.
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.
Google Trends: See what’s trending across Google Search, Google News and YouTube.
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.
Is Machine Learning the same thing as AI?
Google Scholar
Bolster your story with academic papers, opinions, and citations.
Advanced Search: Researching with precision.
Google Trends
Use real-time search data to bring people the stories they’re looking for.
Google Translate: Translations on-the-go.
Google Translate
Speak the language just about anywhere you go.
Google Sheets: Visualizing data
Project Shield
Defend against digital censorship.
Building Deeper Audience Relationships
Energetic City used News Consumer Insights to help create personalized strategies
Creating safe spaces in Latin American media
Chicas Poderosas works to coach and support women and LGBTQ+ journalists
Business Reporting
Build your digital skills on Google Sheets and learn how to identify and report on financial news stories with the help of visualisation tools.
Investigating stories with Machine Learning
Global Fishing Watch: Monitor fishing fleets and vessels
Data preparation
Fundamentals
Strengthen your digital skills by learning advanced techniques on familiar tools like Google Search, Google Maps and Google Trends.
Fighting Climate Change with Geo-Journalism
Ripples Nigeria is a news platform committed to data-driven environmental reporting
Training your Machine Learning model
Pinpoint
Upload and analyze large numbers of documents with the power of Google Search, AI, and machine learning.
Daily Maverick turns data into revenue
Daily Maverick is a South African daily online publisher serving up a unique blend of news, investigations, expert political analysis, and opinion. Since its founding in 2009, the publication has set itself apart with a distinctive editorial voice and a strong focus on investigative reporting.
Keeping Drivers Safe with AI-powered Journalism
The Boston Globe’s investigation into automotive records yields a Pulitzer Prize
Google Alerts
Stay in the know on breaking stories that are important to you.
Google News Archive: Access the past.
Visualising Data: Flourish templates.
Password Alert
Protect yourself from password theft.
Google Scholar: Access court cases, academic papers and sources.
Introduction to Google Earth Studio
Public Data Explorer: Access a world of data.
Google Data GIF Maker
YouTube Creator Academy: Improving your YouTube skills
Tilegrams
Build tiled cartograms to map data.
Visualising Data: Introduction to Tilegrams.
Google Data GIF Maker
Visualize simple data comparisons.
Alma Preta: A new voice for Black media in Brazil
Alma Preta informs Brazilian society from a Black and peripheral racial perspective
Democratizing newsroom tech in Latin America
La Diaria launched Utopia, an open-sourced platform to allow small newsrooms to manage their entire business, supporting independent media in Latin America
Dataset Search Quickstart Guide
Bridging the Language Gap
"One of the biggest challenges immigrants have is it's harder to get local news, especially in their language. So it's very important for us to be able to help this community." -Rocio Tirado, Chief Operating Officer, Jambalaya News
Visualising Data: Flourish templates.
Google Sheets: Cleaning data
Google Trends: Understanding the data.
Google Earth Timelapse: Observing change
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.
Google Sheets: Visualizing data
Introduction to Google Earth Studio
Visualising Data: Advanced Tilegrams.
Google Trends: Improving your search results.
Multimedia Storytelling
Explore best practices for YouTube, and learn how to create your own visuals using Google Earth and Google Trends.
Permissions: Source Google Data.
Google Earth creation tools: Tell your story across the world
Data Journalism
From beginner to advanced, strengthen your ability to analyse and intepret data with Google Trends and a range of tools from Google and beyond.
Permissions: Source Google Data.
Google Trends
Use real-time search data to bring people the stories they’re looking for.
Google Earth
See the entire world from wherever you are via satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and more.
Data Studio: Make interactive data visualizations
An Experiment in Open Data and Civic Participation
READr explores how to build trust in news through reader engagement and participation
Fighting Climate Change with Geo-Journalism
Ripples Nigeria is a news platform committed to data-driven environmental reporting
Data Source: Global Forest Watch.
Google Historical Imagery: Google Earth Pro, Maps and Timelapse
Google Sheets: Scraping data from the internet
Google Trends: See what’s trending across Google Search, Google News and YouTube.
Data Source: Election Databot.
YouTube
Tools and resources to assist you in creating and growing your YouTube channel.
Flourish
Visualize data using customizable templates.
Google Consumer Surveys: Gain real insights.
YouTube: A storytelling tool.
Election visualisations linked to Google Sheets
Verification: Google Image Search
A Collaborative Effort To Fight Misinformation
CekFakta is a collaborative effort to fight the spread of mis and disinformation.
Latino journalists learn digital reporting skills
Google Historical Imagery: Google Earth Pro, Maps and Timelapse
Pinpoint: A research tool for journalists
Verification: Chrome Plugins and Extensions
An Experiment in Open Data and Civic Participation
READr explores how to build trust in news through reader engagement and participation
Voice Typing: Transcribe audio using Google Docs
Daily Maverick turns data into revenue
Daily Maverick is a South African daily online publisher serving up a unique blend of news, investigations, expert political analysis, and opinion. Since its founding in 2009, the publication has set itself apart with a distinctive editorial voice and a strong focus on investigative reporting.
Fighting Misinformation in India
DataLEADS, the India Training Network has trained more than 35,000 Indian journalists
Public Data Explorer: Access a world of data.
Google Maps
Show where stories happen by building interactive maps.
Protect your election coverage
Visualising elections
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.
Dataset Search
Find the datasets you need
Google Earth: Pinpoint eyewitness locations.
Google Earth: Pinpoint eyewitness locations.
Google Data GIF Maker
Password Alert: Protect yourself from password theft.
Latin American students learn to spot misinformation
Movilizatorio is “a laboratory of citizen participation and social innovation that strengthens collective leadership as a motor of transformation.” Based in Bogota with offices in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and New York, the organization connects people around the world to collaborate and create positive change. They led the effort to create the DigiMENTE curriculum.
Covering politics with Google Trends
Project Shield: Defend against digital censorship.
Google Scholar
Bolster your story with academic papers, opinions, and citations.
Fighting Climate Change with Geo-Journalism
Ripples Nigeria is a news platform committed to data-driven environmental reporting
Google Translate: Verify content in 100+ languages.
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, visualisations and digital safety tools.
Journalist Studio
A collection of tools to empower journalists to do their work more efficiently, creatively, and securely
Verification: Google Search
Promoting quality journalism in Latin America
Verification: Advanced Reverse Image Search
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 organisations.
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.
Verification: Chrome Plugins and Extensions
Google Earth
See the entire world from wherever you are via satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and more.
Verification: Advanced Reverse Image Search
Google Fact Check Tools
2-Step Verification: Stronger security for your Google account.
Advanced Protection
Project Shield: Defend against digital censorship.
Featured stories
Mojo Story
Content for Change: Providing young girls with a platform of like-minded peers, and mentors through the accessibility and outreach of a microsite with tech driven solution such as self publishing testimonials, dedicated hourly programming every week to discuss issues with a cross section of stakeholders (teenage girls, parents, schools, peer networks), frequents AMAs on YouTube livestreams etc.
Complex Networks increases purchases by 300% using News Consumer Insights
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Tools, training, and resources designed in partnership with industry experts, academics, and news organizations around the world.