Reporting tools for early-career journalists, Part I Skill: Level: Career Building Beginner Reporting & Writing Beginner Google Basics: Advanced search, micro-search sites, Trends, MapChecking, fact-checking, etc. More training on Reporting & Writing: Google tools for journalists Google Fact-Check Explorer, Google Public Data Explorer, Google Trends, Google search shortcuts/advanced search), MapChecking for crowd size estimates, PhantomBuster, VisualPing for tracking website updates and other cool tools and hacks. Skill: Level: Digital design and production Reporting & Writing Beginner Microsoft 05 – What if The more data you have, the more questions you will have about it, and the more answers it can provide. Excel has a variety of conditional formulas that let you evaluate subsets of your data to find the stories to tell: If…Then formulas; Conditional Functions; XLOOKUP; Array Functions. Skill: Level: Investigative Intermediate Reporting & Writing Beginner Microsoft Excel 04 — Pivot tables Pivot table are the simple solution for some, and a rare kind of magic to others. In this session, we’ll demystify pivot tables and show you how you can use them to simplify your analysis and give you more options than ever in how you extract your story. Skill: Level: Investigative Beginner Reporting & Writing Expert Business tools and investigating companies Learn how to scrape real-time and historical stock data from Google Finance into a Google Sheet and track it. It’s useful for anyone covering a specific industry or company. Skill: Level: Investigative Intermediate Reporting & Writing Intermediate
