Google he said today a new set of tools - the Journalist Studio - to help journalists work more efficiently using technological aids.
Journalist Studio is part of the company's Google News Initiative for better collaboration with the news industry in the evolution of digital journalism.
The company presented two new ones today tools.
The Pinpoint helps journalists quickly read hundreds of thousands of documents, automatically identifying and organizing the most frequently cited terms (people, organizations, and locations).
The tool helps journalists use Google Search and Knowledge Graph, optical character recognition (OCR) and speech-to-text technologies to search PDFs, images, handwritten notes, e-mails and files sound. It allows journalists to upload and analyze documents in seven languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.
Pinpoint was used by USA Today in a survey on 40.600 COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, as well as by the Washington Post for an article on the opioid crisis in the US. Pinpoint is available and journalists can register to request access (Gmail address required).
The next application The Common Knowledge Project is released as a beta and allows journalists to explore, visualize and share data on a variety of topics. Created by Polygraph, an award-winning visual journalism team supported by the Google News Initiative.
Βοηθά τους δημοσιογράφους να δημιουργούν διαδραστικά γραφήματα από χιλιάδες σημεία δεδομένων σε λίγα λεπτά, καθώς και να τα ενσωματώνουν σε ιστορίες ή να τα μοιράζονται στα social media. Τα δεδομένα προέρχονται από την Data Commons που αυτήν τη στιγμή, συμπεριλαμβάνει δεδομένα των ΗΠΑ για δημογραφικά στοιχεία, οικονομία, στέγαση, education and crimes.
