Explore new storytelling formats
Experiment with new ways to visualize stories using new content formats, data, and more.
Featured resources
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.
Pinpoint
In this course, we will look at tools to help you find stories faster.
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.
Fighting Misinformation in India
DataLEADS, the India Training Network has trained more than 35,000 Indian journalists
Trainings
Google Data GIF Maker
Permissions: Source Google Data.
Permissions: Source Google Data.
Introduction to Google Earth Studio
Introduction to Google Earth Studio
Google Trends: See what’s trending across Google Search, Google News and YouTube.
Public Data Explorer: Access a world of data.
Google Sheets: Visualizing data
Google Sheets: Scraping data from the internet
Google Sheets: Cleaning data
Google Earth Timelapse: Observing change
Google Earth creation tools: Tell your story across the world
Google Consumer Surveys: Gain real insights.
Data Studio: Make interactive data visualizations
Data Source: Election Databot.
Dataset Search Quickstart Guide
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.
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.
Multimedia Storytelling
Explore best practices for YouTube, and learn how to create your own visuals using Google Earth and Google Trends.
Google Historical Imagery: Google Earth Pro, Maps and Timelapse
Data Source: Global Forest Watch.
Google Trends: Improving your search results.
Google Trends: Understanding the data.
Visualising Data: Flourish templates.
Visualising Data: Advanced Tilegrams.
Visualising Data: Introduction to Tilegrams.
YouTube Creator Academy: Improving your YouTube skills
YouTube: A storytelling tool.
Products
YouTube
Tools and resources to assist you in creating and growing your YouTube channel.
Google Earth
See the entire world from wherever you are via satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and more.
Google Trends
Use real-time search data to bring people the stories they’re looking for.
Flourish
Visualize data using customizable templates.
Tilegrams
Build tiled cartograms to map data.
Google Data GIF Maker
Visualize simple data comparisons.
Stories
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
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
Fighting Climate Change with Geo-Journalism
Ripples Nigeria is a news platform committed to data-driven environmental reporting
An Experiment in Open Data and Civic Participation
READr explores how to build trust in news through reader engagement and participation
Alma Preta: A new voice for Black media in Brazil
Alma Preta informs Brazilian society from a Black and peripheral racial perspective
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Develop your digital reporting skills
Use tools and resources to help you find, verify, and tell engaging stories.
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