Training Program: "Google Trends for research and story insights"

The Association of Foreign Press Correspondents (AFC-USA) n partnership with Google News Lab presents an online training program exclusively for foreign journalists in the U.S./members of the AFC-USA:

Google Trends for research and story insights: During this program, we will see what other people are searching for to spark story ideas, compare popularity of search topics and help write better headlines. Learn how to use the graphics from the Trends data, or make your own data visualizations. 

WHEN: Wednesday, August 26 at 1 pm EDT (Live and online)

This program is sponsored by Google.

The training program will be presented by the two experts:

Maggie Farley: Maggie teaches journalists tech tools to help them thrive in the digital age. She was a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times for 14 years based in Asia and then covered the U.N. in New York. She co-created Factitious, a digital game that playfully teaches how to discern factual news from misinformation.  At American University, she was a professional fellow in an engagement design for journalism project, and taught writing.  She is a fan of the Oxford comma, trapeze, and the snacks at Google.

Michael Grant: Michael recently provides journalists with expert in-person training on a range of editorial tools from Google. Prior to Google, Grant was UX design editor at Reveal, from The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR). User experience research (UXR) and design thinking are skills he attributes to his time as a 2018-2019 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. His 10-month journey at Stanford explored the question, "How might we create the conditions for more journalists of color to produce online storytelling?"