INN + Google: Tools for covering the 2024 elections – Advanced Search and Pinpoint

Please note: This event is for INN members only. Not yet a member of INN? Explore membership.

Learn how Google Advanced Search and Pinpoint can help in your newsroom!

Discover how you can unearth story ideas and sources by using search modifiers and specialized search engines. Then, dig into Pinpoint, a tool that allows journalists to transcribe audio and video files. You can even use it to analyze large collections of documents for keywords and entities. We’ll demo some of the newest features, including extracting structured data from PDFs, and using Generative AI to ask questions about a document.

Speaker:

Mary Nahorniak, U.S. Teaching Fellow, Google News Lab

This event is part of a series that will showcase some of the best free tools that help journalists report on and tell stories. Each of the four sessions will feature examples from campaign and election reporting, as well as other interesting stories, and are meant to be actionable, with tips and use cases you can bring into your work right away. INN members of all skill levels are welcome, and will walk away with a cheat sheet from each session. Other sessions:

• Google Trends – April 25
• Misinformation and Verification – June 27
• Visualizations – Aug. 29