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
Global Forest Watch
Monitor deforestation data and maps.
Is Machine Learning the same thing as AI?
Evaluate and Test
Investigating stories with Machine Learning
How you can use Machine Learning
Google My Maps: Show where stories happen.
Latino journalists learn digital reporting skills
Google Street View: Verify images.
Pinpoint
Upload and analyze large numbers of documents with the power of Google Search, AI, and machine learning.
What is 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.
Google Sheets: Visualizing data
Google Trends: See what’s trending across Google Search, Google News and YouTube.
Training your Machine Learning model
Different approaches to Machine Learning
Promoting quality journalism in Latin America
YouTube
Tools and resources to assist you in creating and growing your YouTube channel.
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.
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.
Reverse Image Search: Verifying photos.
Google News Archive: Access the past.
Data preparation
Global Fishing Watch: Monitor fishing fleets and vessels
How does a machine learn?
Access Google Finance data in Sheets
Permissions: Source Google Data.
Google Permission
Learn proper usage and citations for Google products.
Voice Typing: Transcribe audio using Google Docs
Google Translate: Translations on-the-go.
Looking ahead to ML-powered journalism
Password Alert
Protect yourself from password theft.
2-Step Verification
Stronger security for your Google account.
Fighting Climate Change with Geo-Journalism
Ripples Nigeria is a news platform committed to data-driven environmental reporting
Google Alerts: Stay in the know.
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.
Keeping Drivers Safe with AI-powered Journalism
The Boston Globe’s investigation into automotive records yields a Pulitzer Prize
Building Deeper Audience Relationships
Energetic City used News Consumer Insights to help create personalized strategies
Advanced Search: Researching with precision.
Advocates for Equity in Australia
Media Diversity Australia advocates for greater diversity in Australian media
Google Trends: Understanding the data.
Visualising Data: Flourish templates.
Google Chrome
Plugins and extensions that make your browser work even harder.
Google Scholar: Access court cases, academic papers and sources.
Fundamentals
Strengthen your digital skills by learning advanced techniques on familiar tools like Google Search, Google Maps and Google Trends.
Google Cloud AutoML Vision
Google Trends
Use real-time search data to bring people the stories they’re looking for.
Google Finance: Research company performance
Google Translate
Speak the language just about anywhere you go.
Introduction to Google Earth Engine
Google Earth
See the entire world from wherever you are via satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and more.
Google Maps
Show where stories happen by building interactive maps.
Google Search
Research with precision. Simple tools and tips to help you get better results, faster.
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.
Fighting Misinformation in India
DataLEADS, the India Training Network has trained more than 35,000 Indian journalists
Google Scholar
Bolster your story with academic papers, opinions, and citations.
Bias in Machine Learning
A Collaborative Effort To Fight Misinformation
CekFakta is a collaborative effort to fight the spread of mis and disinformation.
Google Earth Timelapse: Observing change
Google Alerts
Stay in the know on breaking stories that are important to you.
Creating safe spaces in Latin American media
Chicas Poderosas works to coach and support women and LGBTQ+ journalists
Data Source: Global Forest Watch.
Machine Learning, journalism and you
An Experiment in Open Data and Civic Participation
READr explores how to build trust in news through reader engagement and participation
Journalist Studio
A collection of tools to empower journalists to do their work more efficiently, creatively, and securely
Project Shield
Defend against digital censorship.
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.
Google Trends: Improving your search results.
Google Historical Imagery: Google Earth Pro, Maps and Timelapse
Google Consumer Surveys: Gain real insights.
Google Data GIF Maker
Visualize simple data comparisons.
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.
Google Trends: Understanding the data.
Flourish
Visualize data using customizable templates.
Data Source: Global Forest Watch.
YouTube
Tools and resources to assist you in creating and growing your YouTube channel.
YouTube Creator Academy: Improving your YouTube skills
Introduction to Google Earth Studio
An Experiment in Open Data and Civic Participation
READr explores how to build trust in news through reader engagement and participation
Permissions: Source Google Data.
Fighting Climate Change with Geo-Journalism
Ripples Nigeria is a news platform committed to data-driven environmental reporting
Google Data GIF Maker
Data Studio: Make interactive data visualizations
Introduction to Google Earth Studio
Multimedia Storytelling
Explore best practices for YouTube, and learn how to create your own visuals using Google Earth and Google Trends.
Google Earth Timelapse: Observing change
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
Public Data Explorer: Access a world of data.
Visualising Data: Flourish templates.
Google Sheets: Visualizing data
Google Sheets: Scraping data from the internet
Google Trends
Use real-time search data to bring people the stories they’re looking for.
Visualising Data: Advanced Tilegrams.
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
Alma Preta: A new voice for Black media in Brazil
Alma Preta informs Brazilian society from a Black and peripheral racial perspective
Google Sheets: Cleaning data
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 Earth creation tools: Tell your story across the world
Google Earth
See the entire world from wherever you are via satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and more.
Data Source: Election Databot.
Tilegrams
Build tiled cartograms to map data.
Dataset Search Quickstart Guide
Google Trends: See what’s trending across Google Search, Google News and YouTube.
YouTube: A storytelling tool.
Permissions: Source Google Data.
Visualising Data: Introduction to Tilegrams.
Google Fact Check Tools
Google Earth: Pinpoint eyewitness locations.
Journalist Studio
A collection of tools to empower journalists to do their work more efficiently, creatively, and securely
Advanced Protection
Fighting Climate Change with Geo-Journalism
Ripples Nigeria is a news platform committed to data-driven environmental reporting
Dataset Search
Find the datasets you need
Verification: Chrome Plugins and Extensions
Verification: Chrome Plugins and Extensions
Pinpoint: A research tool for journalists
Verification: Google Image Search
Latino journalists learn digital reporting skills
Google Data GIF Maker
Password Alert: Protect yourself from password theft.
Public Data Explorer: Access a world of data.
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.
An Experiment in Open Data and Civic Participation
READr explores how to build trust in news through reader engagement and participation
Verification: Google Search
A Collaborative Effort To Fight Misinformation
CekFakta is a collaborative effort to fight the spread of mis and disinformation.
Google Earth
See the entire world from wherever you are via satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and more.
Google Translate: Verify content in 100+ languages.
Covering politics with Google Trends
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.
Visualising elections
Verification: Advanced Reverse Image Search
Project Shield: Defend against digital censorship.
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.
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.
Protect your election coverage
Google Maps
Show where stories happen by building interactive maps.
Verification: Advanced Reverse Image Search
Voice Typing: Transcribe audio using Google Docs
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.
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.
Election visualisations linked to Google Sheets
Google Scholar
Bolster your story with academic papers, opinions, and citations.
Project Shield: Defend against digital censorship.
Google Historical Imagery: Google Earth Pro, Maps and Timelapse
Google Earth: Pinpoint eyewitness locations.
Fighting Misinformation in India
DataLEADS, the India Training Network has trained more than 35,000 Indian journalists
Promoting quality journalism in Latin America
2-Step Verification: Stronger security for your Google account.
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.