Google by the Glass
Learn how Google tools can improve your journalism – in a wine bar.
By Michael Koretzky
SPJ Florida president
SPJ and the Google News Initiative are training journalists around the country. For free. The lauded program stops in South Florida on Saturday afternoon, Sept 27. The GNI trainer will teach you how to use…
- Advanced Search to get better results faster.
- Google Trends to get a real-time view of the topics people in your area are searching.
- Google Maps to build interactive maps and show what happened where.
- Google Scholar to bolster your sources and find reliable academic research and legal documents.
- Pinpoint, a Google AI research tool explicitly developed for journalists. It finds and analyzes extensive collections of documents, images, and other files, letting you extract information, identify patterns, and summarize data.
- NotebookLM, an AI-powered research and writing tool from Google, assists journalists by streamlining workflows and enhancing productivity.
- AI for journalists, using Gemini for analyzing data.
- Google security tools. How to protect your accounts from hackers and predators.
After an overview of tips and tricks for each tool, we’ll dive deeper into a few of them. You’ll choose which ones and how deep.
SPJ Florida’s version of this national training program is called Google by the Glass. It happens at The Vintage on Harrison, a boutique wine bar in downtown Hollywood. We’ll take over the secret back room (you’ll see what we mean) from 3-6 pm while you sip various wines and nosh on appetizers. Did we mention this is all free? If you want to buy more wine and food, you’ll get a 10% discount.
Make sure you bring your laptop to make it easier to follow along and experiment with the tools.
Google by the Glass
When: 3-6 pm Saturday, Sept 27
Where: The Vintage on Harrison, 1955 Harrison St, downtown Hollywood
Cost: Free training, free wine tasting with free appetizers. Just pay your parking meter
Questions: email us at spjflorida@gmail.com
While the training is free, you need to register in advance…
The trainer
Jorge Luis Sierra is co-founder of the Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers, a Texas-based investigative nonprofit. He was a Knight International Journalism Fellow and has studied the intersection of cybersecurity, technology, and investigative reporting at Harvard, University of Texas, and University of Colorado.