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Getting Google

    While Google experiments with the News Lab and University Network, let’s be their Lab Rats.

  • Get Google’s help on specific, class-related Google-tool creations.
  • Offer Google tools edu for gen-pub, on and off campus.
  • Document/share everything we learn.
  • Apply the tools to exemplary journalism projects.

Google searches (U.S.) for “mass media” and “mainstream media”

An early goal of the Media Lab could be to enlist Google’s help (via the News Lab affiliation) in making students and faculty skilled users of Google dataviz tools. Next would be to use the tools in exemplary journalism projects, which further News Lab initiatives and its programs.

The Media Lab could, with student help: Host more of SPJ’s free, on-site SPJ Tools Training for Journalists (later, ask for follow-up critique of specific creations). Collect Native American stories for Documenting Hate. Develop an immersive investigative story on the Butte mines, combining a Journalism360-inspired VR tour of the Berkeley Pit, a Flourish “horserace” of mining output over time, and a Map/Earth timeline of how the “richest hill on earth” became its biggest Superfund site.

Immersive storytelling project:

  • What’s never been done that we can do?
  • What needs to be done that we can do?

Not limited to Google tools: Tableau and Knight Lab will workshop with us too.