About the webinar:
THIS WEBINAR WILL NOT BE RECORDED OR ARCHIVED FOR GOOGLE PURPOSES
In this RTDNA/Google News Initiative training, we’ll explore ways to fight back against misinformation and disinformation during election coverage. We’ll use tools such as Google Fact-Check Explorer to track fact-checked images and stories. We’ll use Google Scholar to background candidate and claims. We’ll break down doctored videos with WatchFramebyFrame and Deepware. We’ll also look at the innovative Rolliapp.com to track disinformation spreaders on social channels. Participants get a handout with links to tools and exercise materials you can take to your newsroom. Prior to the training, set up a free Rolliapp.com “press pass” account as it takes a couple of days to get approved.
About the presenter:
Mike Reilley has been a lecturer in data and digital journalism at the University of Illinois Chicago for the past eight years and is a digital tools trainer in the Google News Initative training program. He also owns Penny Press Digital, LLC, a digital consulting company.
Mike has trained more than 14,000 journalists, students and teachers in digital tools since 2016, speaking at conferences, journalism schools and in newsrooms in 42 states. He has done more than 425 trainings in the Google program and dozens more for the other clients such as Gannett.
Mike is a former reporter and copy editor at the Los Angeles Times and was one of the founding editors of ChicagoTribune.com. He’s a former digital news editor at the WashingtonPost.com and also founded the AI tools site, The Journalist’s Toolbox.
Mike has his master’s degree in journalism/newspaper-media management from Northerwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He also has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he was editor of his college newspaper, The Daily Nebraskan.
