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Fundamentals
Course
Strengthen your digital skills by learning advanced techniques on familiar tools like Google Search, Google Maps and Google Trends.
Start building your revenue model
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Diversify your revenue sources, estimate potential income, and launch new products.
Introduction to Machine Learning
Course
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.
Increase site traffic
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Use Search, newsletters, social sharing, and ads to attract more visits.
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Hands-on Machine Learning
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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.
Video: Keeping journalists safe online
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Enhance your online safety as a journalist with best practices and tools from Google.
Video: Getting started with Pinpoint
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Explore and analyze thousands of documents with Google's research tool, Pinpoint.
Video: Getting started with Google Trends
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Google Trends allows you to explore a sample of search requests, by topic and over time.
Video: Google Earth and mapping technologies for journalists
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Discover how journalists can use Google Earth and mapping technologies
Video: Google tools for fact-checkers
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Explore digital tools designed specifically for fact-checkers and journalists
Keep visitors engaged
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Engage and retain visitors by using article recirculation, videos, and Core Web Vitals.
Start building your audience
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Understand and grow your audience with analytics, surveys, and tools.
Increase site traffic
Course
Use Search, newsletters, social sharing, and ads to attract more visits.
Introduction to Machine Learning
Course
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.
Investigative Reporting
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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.
Fundamentals
Course
Strengthen your digital skills by learning advanced techniques on familiar tools like Google Search, Google Maps and Google Trends.
YouTube Creator Academy: Improving your YouTube skills
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Learn how to access and choose lessons that help strengthen your presence.
Business Reporting
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Build your digital skills on Google Sheets and learn how to identify and report on financial news stories with the help of visualization tools.
Data Studio: Make interactive data visualizations
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Give life to your datasets by creating powerful interactive visualizations with an easy-to-use studio.
Password Alert: Protect yourself from password theft.
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This simple Chrome extension is your first line of defense.
2-Step Verification: Stronger security for your Google account.
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Add an extra layer of protection beyond your password.
Google Translate: Verify content in 100+ languages.
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Interpret descriptions, uploader information and place names.
Introduction to Google Earth Engine
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Use a multi-petabyte library of satellite imagery and data to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface
Global Fishing Watch: Monitor fishing fleets and vessels
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A guide to using Global Fishing Watch’s mapping tool to track global fishing activity.
Visualizing Data: Flourish templates.
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A simple tool to help newsrooms create beautiful graphics.
Google Sheets: Visualizing data
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Learn to build visualizations that help you interpret the data and tell data-driven stories.
Access Google Finance data in Sheets
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Access Google Finance data in Google Sheets. Examine closing prices, percentage change or market movement over any timeframe.
Google Finance: Research company performance
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Google Finance allows you to track companies across 53 exchanges on five continents.
Google Earth Timelapse: Observing change
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Observe how the earth has changed over the course of the last 35 years.
Introduction to Google Earth Studio
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A fully functional animation studio for Google Earth imagery.
Google Earth creation tools: Tell your story across the world
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How to use Google Earth to create compelling stories
Storytelling with Google Trends
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Learn ways to contextualize Google Trends data and integrate it into your reporting.
Machine Learning, journalism and you
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How machine learning is entering your personal and professional life.
Training your Machine Learning model
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Import your data in AutoML Vision and start the training process
Google Cloud AutoML Vision
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Learn how to set up AutoML Vision to prepare for the course exercise
Investigating stories with Machine Learning
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How you can use Machine Learning in your reporting
Project Shield: Defend against digital censorship.
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A free tool to protect your site from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
Protect your election coverage
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In this module, we will look at tools to protect and secure your election coverage
Election visualizations linked to Google Sheets
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Keep your election visualizations live by linking them to Google sheets
Covering politics with Google Trends
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In this module, we will look at ways to use Google Trends to analyze searches specifically related to politics.
Google Podcasts Manager
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Better understand your audiences and reach them across Google products.
Google Translate: Translations on-the-go.
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Speak the language just about anywhere in the world.
Google My Maps: Show where stories happen.
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Give important context by building interactive maps.
How to add them to your site
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There are two ways to add Web Stories to your site, regardless of the CMS you use to maintain it. Each approach is simple, intuitive, and poised to make Web Stories a vital part of your content strategy going forward.
How to make them using makestories.io
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makestories.io is a platform specially created to help people make, publish, and monetize Google Web Stories. It’s free, and it can be used with any content management system. Here are the basics of how to get started with makestories.io.
How to make them using WordPress
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WordPress is the standard for so many content makers, and now the ability to create Web Stories is built right into the platform.
How to make a good Web Story
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Creating a strong, compelling Web Story is as easy as creating an article or a video, and the interactive nature of Web Stories plays to the rapidly shifting desires and demands of online audiences.
What are Web Stories?
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How the easy-to-use vertical video format is changing the face of digital storytelling and driving the connection between content makers and their fans.
Public Data Explorer: Access a world of data.
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Use high-quality data sets to create compelling visuals.
Google Historical Imagery: Google Earth Pro, Maps and Timelapse
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Find out where a photo was taken and when it was uploaded.
Google Earth: Pinpoint eyewitness locations.
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Find out where a photo was taken and when it was uploaded.
Verification: Chrome Plugins and Extensions
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How to speed up the verification process using Google Chrome.
Verification: Advanced Reverse Image Search
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How to separate genuine eyewitness accounts from misattributed content.
Verification: Google Search
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Master advanced search shortcuts to filter results by date, relevance and language.
Advanced Google Trends
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Become a master of the Trends Explore tool with these simple tips for extracting precise data.
How you can use Machine Learning
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Understand in what cases ML might be the solution to your problem.
Different approaches to Machine Learning
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Learn to recognize what defines different machine learning solutions.
Is Machine Learning the same thing as AI?
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Take a bird's eye view of machine learning within the AI landscape.
Voice Typing: Transcribe audio using Google Docs
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A quick and easy way to convert audio to text.
Google News Archive: Access the past.
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Discover historical digital publications and scanned newspapers.
Advanced Search: Researching with precision.
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Simple tools and tips to help you get better results, faster.
Google Scholar: Access court cases, academic papers and sources.
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Quickly find hard facts and expert opinions.
Basics of Google Trends
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This beginner’s course will teach you the basics of Google Trends, using the free Trends Explore tool.
Google Fact Check Tools
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These tools allow you to search for stories and images that have already been debunked and lets you add ClaimReview markup to your own fact checks.
Introduction to AI for Journalists
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Learn about Google's approach to AI and how our products can support newsrooms.
Introduction to AI for News Business Teams
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Learn about Google's approach to AI and how our products can support news business teams.
Get started on Google News with Publisher Center
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Submit, manage, and monetize your news across Google
Keep visitors engaged with video on YouTube
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Build your relationship with billions of YouTube viewers
Grow your revenue with Google's ads products
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Determine if AdSense, AdMob, or Ad Manager is right for you
Grow Digital Ad Revenue with AdSense
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Get started with AdSense to earn programmatic ad revenue
Data Journalism
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From beginner to advanced, strengthen your ability to analyze and interpret data with Google Trends and a range of tools from Google and beyond.
Safety and Security
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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 organizations.
Elections
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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, visualizations and digital safety tools.
Grow Digital Ad Revenue with Google Ad Manager
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Get started with Google Ad Manager to increase digital ad revenue
Build your audience with Google Analytics 4
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Understand how Google Analytics 4 works to help with audience analytics
Understand Direct and Programmatic Ad Revenue
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Sell ads, set prices, pitch advertisers and communicate results
Understand Ad Sizes and Formats
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Understand how ad sizes and formats affect pricing and revenue
Pinpoint: A research tool for journalists
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Explore and analyze thousands of documents with Google's research tool, Pinpoint.
Looking ahead to ML-powered journalism
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Key learnings and recommended resources to deepen your ML knowledge.
Build your audience with News Consumer Insights
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Get data-driven recommendations for your site
Learn more about your audience with surveys
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Understand your audience, their habits, and what they value with surveys
Build your audience with Google's analytics tools
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Make better decisions based on your audiences’ data
Evaluate your financial sustainability
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Understand, measure, and enable your financial sustainability
