Google News Initiative teaching fellow Mary Nahorniak spoke to Paul Miller Washington Reporting and Widening the Pipeline fellows about using different Google products to improve their research methods. These tools can help journalists with fact-checking, project organization and search engine optimization.

Google Pinpoint

This tool offers researchers a new means of collecting documents, transcripts and other materials. Pinpoint also makes for easier searching within uploaded documents.

Mastering Google Search and Trends

Looking for the right document can feel like trying to find a needle in a haystack. This tutorial shows researchers how to fine-tune their Google searches by filtering out unwanted results, making for faster and more detailed queries.

ID Fake Photos & Find Mis- and Disinformation

This tutorial goes over various tools and techniques for fact-checking and catching AI: Google Fact Check Explorer, a specialized search engine that specifically searches for fact checks of popular claims; InVid WeVerify, a video version of reverse Google image search by breaking videos up into individual thumbnails.

The Widening the Pipeline Fellowship is sponsored by the Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation and Lenovo. NPF is solely responsible for the content.