AAJA-Asia and the Google News Initiative (GNI) have teamed up to provide free training and outreach to journalists in Asia looking to improve their reporting skills and employ the latest digital tools in their news gathering, fact-checking, reporting and storytelling.
In 2019-2020, the AAJA-Asia Training Network trained over 600 people in 5 Asian markets including Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Manila, and Bangkok. It currently comprises 21 certified trainers who can train in English and 8 Asian languages (Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, Thai).
UPCOMING TRAINING WORKSHOPS
- 13 March 2021: Fact-checking and Source Verification. (English) – Register here
- 20 March 2021: Digital Tools for Journalists. (English) – Register here
- 27 March 2021: 給新聞記者的網上工具 (Cantonese) – 在这里注册 (Register here)
- 3 April 2021: 有關網上查核的工具、最新趨向及相關議題. (Cantonese) – Register here
- 10 April 2021: Alat Digital untuk Jurnalis. (Bahasa Indonesia)- Daftar di sini (Register here)
- 10 April 2021: Digital Tools for Journalists. (English/Tagalog) – Register here
- 17 April 2021: Fact-checking and Source Verification. (English/Tagalog) – Register here
- 17 April 2021: ジャーナリストのためのデジタルツール. (Japanese) ここに登録 (Register here)
- 24 April 2021: Pemeriksaan Fakta dan Verifikasi Sumber. (Bahasa Indonesia) – Daftar di sini (Register here)
To request a free training, please contact asia@aaja.org
PROGRAM
Digital Tools for Journalists
This session will present an overview of the latest, free online tools and workflows that journalists can use for finding, visualizing and telling news stories. The workshop will focus on how to search for and monitor news stories trends online and on how to use geo-localization and visualization tools to improve storytelling. It will cover the following tools/topics:
- Search and Monitoring: Advanced Search on search engines, Transcription, Pinpoint, Trends, Alerts, Archiving, Environmental Journalism tools
- Maps and Visualization: Google Sheets, Google Maps, MyMaps, Street View, Wikimapia, Mapillary, Earth Studio, Earth Timelapse, Flourish, Tabula, OpenRefine
Fact-checking and source verification
This session will present a fast-paced overview of the most up-to-date issues and practices in online verification. It will also look at the free Google tools, and the best alternatives, used by fact-checkers worldwide to check stories and debunk hoaxes. It will cover the following topics:
- Common newsroom mistakes
- Reverse image/video searches
- Deepfakes
- Social media monitoring
- Sourcing and Attribution
About the Asian American Journalists Association: The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational and professional organization with more than 1,500 members across the United States and Asia. Since its founding, AAJA has been at the forefront of change in the journalism industry. For more information on the national chapter, visit https://www.aaja.org/ For more on the AAJA-Asia chapter, visit https://aaja-asia.org/
About the Google News Initiative: Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. The Google News Initiative is our effort to work with the news industry to help journalism thrive in the digital age. The Google News Lab, an initiative under the GNI, was created to support the distribution and creation of the information that keeps us all informed about what’s happening in our world today – quality journalism. Today’s news organizations and media entrepreneurs are inventing new ways to discover, create and distribute news content – and we’re here to provide tools, data, and programs designed to help. For more information, visit g.co/newsinitiative.