Find new ways to fight misinformation
Explore digital tools that help verify the authenticity and accuracy of online images, videos, and reports.
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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.
Fighting Climate Change with Geo-Journalism
Ripples Nigeria is a news platform committed to data-driven environmental reporting
Trainings
Google Data GIF Maker
Voice Typing: Transcribe audio using Google Docs
Visualising elections
Verification: Google Image Search
Verification: Chrome Plugins and Extensions
Verification: Chrome Plugins and Extensions
Protect your election coverage
Public Data Explorer: Access a world of data.
Google Translate: Verify content in 100+ languages.
Google Fact Check Tools
Google Earth: Pinpoint eyewitness locations.
Google Earth: Pinpoint eyewitness locations.
Election visualisations linked to Google Sheets
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.
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.
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.
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: Google Search
Verification: Advanced Reverse Image Search
Verification: Advanced Reverse Image Search
Pinpoint: A research tool for journalists
Google Historical Imagery: Google Earth Pro, Maps and Timelapse
Advanced Protection
Password Alert: Protect yourself from password theft.
2-Step Verification: Stronger security for your Google account.
Project Shield: Defend against digital censorship.
Project Shield: Defend against digital censorship.
Covering politics with Google Trends
Products
Dataset Search
Find the datasets you need
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
Google Scholar
Bolster your story with academic papers, opinions, and citations.
Google Maps
Show where stories happen by building interactive maps.
Stories
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.
Latino journalists learn digital reporting skills
Promoting quality journalism in Latin America
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
Fighting Misinformation in India
DataLEADS, the India Training Network has trained more than 35,000 Indian journalists
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Develop your digital reporting skills
Use tools and resources to help you find, verify, and tell engaging stories.
Explore new storytelling formats
Experiment with new ways to visualize stories using new content formats, data, and more.
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Tools, training, and resources designed in partnership with industry experts, academics, and news organizations around the world