To improve research, news gathering, reporting, storytelling, market analysis and creative projects, the training will cover how to use a variety of Google tools, including:
• Google Trends
• Google Scholar
• Google My Maps
• Google Flourish Studio
• Google Earth Pro
• Google Earth Engine
• Google Earth Studio
Current UNL students can also enroll in a one-credit-hour pop-up course offered by the College of Journalism and Mass Communications that will augment the training session with additional instruction and a hand-on project. In addition to attending the training, students enrolled in the course will participate in hands-on activities during additional scheduled course times. For additional details on the pop-up course, please visit journalism.unl.edu/pop-up.
The training will be led by Mike Reilly, a CoJMC alum and digital trainer for the Society of Professional Journalists. Reilly has taught Google News Initiative tools to more than 4,000 journalists and educators in the past 2.5 years. When he’s not on the road doing trainings, he teaches data and multimedia journalism at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where he is a visiting professor.
A former reporter at the LA Times and web editor at the Chicago Tribune, Mike served for 13 years as a faculty member at Northwestern, Arizona State University and DePaul University, teaching digital journalism to hundreds of students and professional journalists.
He holds journalism degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (undergrad) and Northwestern University (masters).
For additional information and to register for the training, please visit http://www.go.unl.edu/ysvz. Students must register for the pop-up class in MyRed. Enrolling in the pop-up class is not required to attend the training.
More details at: http://www.go.unl.edu/ysvz