Looking for new tools to expand your coverage of voter registration, voter access and the voting process? Give this webinar a whirl!
What: “Report the Vote” Google News training workshop
When: Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. EDT (US and Canada)
Where: online (BE SURE TO REGISTER WITH LINK BELOW)
Register: please sign up in advance here. **
QUESTIONS: spjdcchapter@gmail.com
** Be sure you have a free Google/Gmail account set up before the workshop.
While this event is open to the public and there is no charge to attend — all attendees must register.
Google is essential to nearly every online user, but how can one graduate from being an everyday user to a power user of the search engine?
Learn how to leverage the information available through Google to maximize the effectiveness of your Election 2020 coverage.
Join the Society of Professional Journalists Washington, D.C., Pro Chapter and other SPJ chapters in Region 2 at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 17, for a free virtual workshop featuring “Report the Vote” material, and on using Google tools and techniques that are especially beneficial for news professionals and those who follow the news, as the election season is about to intensify ahead of Nov. 3 Election Day.
Google News Initiative trainer Frank Bi will feature material from “Report the Vote: Election 2020,” a project of the Freedom Forum and Fors Marsh Group.
This free workshop is open to the public and is provided as part of a joint initiative between the Society of Professional Journalists and the Google News Initiative.
Google News Initiative trainer for the workshop, Frank Bi, is an engineer at Vox Media, an adjunct professor at Fordham University and president of the New York chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA).
Google News Initiative trainer Frank Bi gives pointers at an SPJ DC Pro/Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University Washington Program Google training workshop in June 2019.
(Photo by Jonathan Make)
After you register, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar on Monday. Use an email address you access frequently when registering.
Please join us!