Develop your digital reporting skills
Use tools and resources to help you find, verify, and tell engaging stories.
Featured resources
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.
Keeping Drivers Safe with AI-powered Journalism
The Boston Globe’s investigation into automotive records yields a Pulitzer Prize
Trainings
Looking ahead to ML-powered journalism
Google Trends: See what’s trending across Google Search, Google News and YouTube.
Visualizing Data: Flourish templates.
Voice Typing: Transcribe audio using Google Docs
Is Machine Learning the same thing as AI?
Introduction to Google Earth Engine
Google Sheets: Visualizing data
Google News Archive: Access the past.
Google My Maps: Show where stories happen.
Google Finance: Research company performance
Google Earth Timelapse: Observing change
Global Fishing Watch: Monitor fishing fleets and vessels
Advanced Search: Researching with precision.
Access Google Finance data in Sheets
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fundamentals
Strengthen your digital skills by learning advanced techniques on familiar tools like Google Search, Google Maps and Google Trends.
Google Scholar: Access court cases, academic papers and sources.
How you can use Machine Learning
Different approaches to Machine Learning
Machine Learning, journalism and you
Training your Machine Learning model
Google Cloud AutoML Vision
Investigating stories with Machine Learning
What is Machine Learning
Google Translate: Translations on-the-go.
Products
Google Search
Research with precision. Simple tools and tips to help you get better results, faster.
Pinpoint
Upload and analyze large numbers of documents with the power of Google Search, AI, and machine learning.
Google Earth
See the entire world from wherever you are via satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and more.
Journalist Studio
A collection of tools to empower journalists to do their work more efficiently, creatively, and securely
Stories
Evolving a project into full-fledged media business
Startups Lab helps The NRI Nation create the infrastructure to allow for future growth
Improving employee retention through systems and documentation
Taproot Publishing launched an employee intranet portal in their quest to grow and retain remote team members
Journalism veterans rally around mental health
Headlines Network provides journalists and newsroom leaders with workshops and toolkits to safeguard mental health and, by extension, the industry.
Social media newswire vets user-generated content for reporters
Storyful advances quality journalism and battles disinformation by sourcing, verifying, and publishing content from breaking news stories, and viral videos
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
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.
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 Climate Change with Geo-Journalism
Ripples Nigeria is a news platform committed to data-driven environmental reporting
A Collaborative Effort To Fight Misinformation
CekFakta is a collaborative effort to fight the spread of mis and disinformation.
An Experiment in Open Data and Civic Participation
READr explores how to build trust in news through reader engagement and participation
Creating safe spaces in Latin American media
Chicas Poderosas works to coach and support women and LGBTQ+ journalists
Advocates for Equity in Australia
Media Diversity Australia advocates for greater diversity in Australian media
Fighting Misinformation in India
DataLEADS, the India Training Network has trained more than 35,000 Indian journalists
Looking for something else?
Explore new storytelling formats
Experiment with new ways to visualize stories using new content formats, data, and more.
Find new ways to fight misinformation
Explore digital tools to help verify the authenticity and accuracy of online images, videos, and reports.
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Tools, training, and resources designed in partnership with industry experts, academics, and news organizations around the world.