About the Program I Become an AAJA-Asia Trainer I Meet the trainers
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.
Since 2019, the AAJA-Asia Training Network has trained over 3,000 people in-person and online in 18 Asian markets. The Network currently comprises 33 certified trainers who can train in English and 17 Asian languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Bengali, Burmese, Cantonese, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Mandarin, Mongolian, Nepali, Vietnamese, Sinhala., Tagalog, Thai., Urdu
TRAINING WORKSHOPS AGENDA IN 2023:
- May 13 : Online fact-cheching and sources verfication workshop for students (English)
- May 16: Digital tools for reporting (Nepali)
- May 17: Fact-checking and source verification (Nepali)
- June 4: Digital tools for reporting (Nepali)
- June 5: Fact-checking and source verification (Nepali)
- June 16: Digital tools for reporting (Urdu)
- June 18: Online Digital tools for reporting workshop (English/Bengali)
- June 26: Online Fact-checking and source verification workshop (English/Bengali)
- June 30: Digital tools for reporting (Nepali)
- July 1: Fact-checking and source verification (Nepali)
- July 1: Digital tools for reporting (Burmese)
- July 2: Fact-checking and source verification (Burmese)
- July 22: Digital tools for reporting for students – Online (English)
- August 1: Fact-checking and Sources Verification at DBC TV (Bengali)
- August 2: Fact-checking and Sources Verification at Channel 24 (Bengali)
- August 7: Fact-checking and Sources Verification at Daily Campus (Bengali)
- August 22: Digital Tools for Reporting and Fact-checking (Mongolian) – Register here
- September 3: Digital tools for reporting and Fact-checking at Jandool Press Club(Urdu)
- September 7: Digital Tools for Reporting at Bengkulu University (Indonesia)
- September 9: Digital Tools for Reporting at Dehasen University (Indonesia)
- September 14: Digital Tools for Reporting and Fact-checking at the Press institute of Mongolia (Mongolian) – Register here
- September 15: Digital Tools for Reporting and Fact-checking at the Indian Science News Association (ISNA)
- September 22: Digital Tools for Reporting at the Korea Times
- More dates to be announced soon
TRAINING WORKSHOPS AGENDA IN 2022:
For everyone:
- March 5-12 : Digital tools for Journalists (English)
- March 12-19 : Fact-Checking and source verification (English)
- March 20-21: पत्रकारहरूको लागि डिजिटल टुल (Nepali)
- March 27-28 : तथ्य जाँच र स्रोत प्रमाणीकरण (Nepali)
- April 03: पत्रकारहरूको लागि डिजिटल टुल (Nepali)
- April 04: तथ्य जाँच र स्रोत प्रमाणीकरण (Nepali)
- April 24 and May 1st: 給新聞記者的網上工具 (Cantonese)
- May 6: Data Visualization for Rookies (English), in person in Singapore
- May 8-15: 有關網上查核的工具、最新趨向及相關議題. (Cantonese)
- May 11-12: 《給新聞記者的數位工具》工作坊 (Mandarin)
- July 12-13: Digital Tools for Journalists in South Asia (English/Bengali)
- Sept 26-27: Fact-checking and Sources Verification, in partnership with Mooknayak (Hindi).
- Sept 26: Fact-checking for educators and students (Malay/English)
- Oct 11-12: Fact-checking and Source Verification (Hindi)
- Oct 11-18: Alat Digital (Digital tools for Journalist in Bahasa Indonesia) in partnership with Tempo Institute
- 11-12 Nov: Factchecking and Source Verification, with Youth Ki Awaaz – (English) – Register here
- 15 Nov: Elections Reporting and Fact-checking , with the Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network. Register here
- Dec 1-2: 《給新聞記者的數位工具》工作坊 (Mandarin) – Register here
- Dec 3-10: Fact-checking and Source Verification for Students – Register here
- More dates to be announced soon
For our partners:
- February 12: Digital Tools for Journalists, at the Future of Journalism workshop, held by Malaysia’s Center for Governance and Political Studies (Malaysia)
- March 09-10 : Digital Tools for Journalists at Swami Vivekananda University (India)
- March 11-12: Fact-checking & Source Verification at Swami Vivekananda University (India)
- March 11: Alat Digital (Digital Tools for Journalists in Bahasa Bahasa Indonesia), in partnership with Forwat (Indonesia)
- March 12-13: Alat Digital (Digital Tools for Journalists in Bahasa Indonesia) at University of Bengkulu, in partnership with AJI and Pertanian TV (Indonesia)
- March 25-26: Digital Tools for Journalists at Brainware University (India)
- March 30: Digital Tools for Journalists, in partnerships with Nepal Live (Nepal)
- April 22: Digital Tools and Fact-checking, in partnership with Nhân Dân (Vietnam)
- May 20: Digital Tools and Fact-checking, in partnership with the Vietnam Journalists Association (Vietnam)
- June 18: Alat Digital (Digital tools for Journalist in Bahasa Indonesia) in partnership with Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI) Bengkulu (Indonesia)
- June 18: Alat Digital (Digital tools for Journalist in Bahasa Indonesia) in partnership with Forum Jurnalis Perempuan Indonesia (FJPI)
- June 24: Digital Tools and Fact-checking, in partnership with the Vietnam Journalists Association (Vietnam)
- July 22: Digital Tools and Fact-checking, in partnership with the Vietnam Journalists Association (Vietnam)
- August 19: Digital Tools and Fact-checking, in partnership with the Vietnam Journalists Association (Vietnam)
- Sept 15: Fact-checking and Visualization with GIZ in in Quy Nhon (Vietnam)
- Sept 16: Fact-checking and Sources verification, in partnership with Sanmarg.
- Sept 28: News verification and Reporting tool for THK Jain College (india)
- Oct 7: Fact-checking and Verification with GIZ in Dong Nai (Vietnam)
- Oct15: Digital Tools and Fact-checking, in partnership with the Vietnam Journalists Association (Vietnam)
- Nov 2: Digital Tools for Reporting, in partnership with Kantipur (Nepal)
- Nov 5-6: Digital Tools for Reporting, in partnership with the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) Kaski branch (Nepal)
- Nov 27-28: Fact-checking and Sources Verification, in partnership with the Daily Star
- Dec 4-5: Digital Tools for Reporting, in partnership with the Daily Star
- Dec 5-6: Fact-checking and Sources Verification, in partnership with the Bhutan Media Foundation.
- Dec 7-8: Digital Tools for Journalists, in partnership with the Bhutan Media Foundation.
Should you wish to request a free training for your newsroom or your organization, 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
PAST EVENTS:
TRAINING WORKSHOPS IN 2021:
- 13 March 2021: Fact-checking and Source Verification. (English)
- 20 March 2021: Digital Tools for Journalists. (English)
- 27 March 2021: 給新聞記者的網上工具 (Cantonese)
- 3 April 2021: 有關網上查核的工具、最新趨向及相關議題. (Cantonese)
- 10 April 2021: Alat Digital untuk Jurnalis. (Bahasa Indonesia)
- 10 April 2021: Digital Tools for Journalists. (English/Tagalog)
- 17 April 2021: Fact-checking and Source Verification. (English/Tagalog)
- 17 April 2021: ジャーナリストのためのデジタルツール. (Japanese)
- 24 April 2021: Pemeriksaan Fakta dan Verifikasi Sumber. (Bahasa Indonesia)
- 5 June 2021: Digital Tools for Journalists. (English/Tagalog)
- 12 June 2021: Alat Digital untuk Wartawan. (Bahasa Melayu)
- 19 June 2021: Fact-checking and Source Verification. (English/Tagalog)
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.