AFC-Google News Lab Training for foreign journalists: Verification tools
The Association of Foreign Press Correspondents (AFC-USA) in partnership with Google News Lab presents an online training program exclusively for foreign journalists in the U.S./members of the AFC-USA on:
Verification tools: Bad information is dangerous, especially in uncertain times. Learn how to verify images and video, investigate social media posts, and identify misinformation with open-source intelligence tools.
The training program - part of the AFC Online Academy - 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?"
WHEN: Wednesday, June 17th at 1 pm EDT
Limited Capacity - RSVP Required
Priority always for foreign correspondents/registered members of the AFC-USA