PollCheck: Covering India’s Election : Helping Indian Journalists by Google News Initiative India for 2019 Lok shabha Elections
Google is helping Indian journalists in covering upcoming Lok Sabha 2019 elections. To cover Indian Election in light of the counterfeit, Google has announced a new initiative that aims to help Indian journalists in covering the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. It is “PollCheck: Covering India’s Election” training sessions, introduced by Google News Initiative India being a partner with DataLeads and Internews.
Google News Initiative India, that came into existence last year, will be holding training sessions in 30 cities between February 26 - April 6. This will be hosted across several languages including English, Hindi, Malayalam, Bangla, Kannada, Gujarati, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi.
The initiative will be training Indian journalists on online verification and fact-checking of the news in addition to journalist digital safety and security and how they can use YouTube for elections coverage.
Interested journalists can register from today for the program as it's free. The slots will be given in a first come first serve basis. It is also open for journalism students.
“The Google News Initiative is proud to be supporting journalists in India as they prepare to cover the upcoming elections. Our partners DataLeads and Internews will offer training on online verification and fact-checking and other courses, in 30 cities in 10 languages. Since 2016, Google has trained more than 13,000 journalists in India, across 200+ newsrooms and in 40 cities,” said Irene Jay Liu, Google News Lab Lead, Asia-Pacific on a reprot.
Here are all the 30 locations where the training sessions will be held:
Agartala, Tripura | Sat, Mar 16 | English
Ahmedabad, Gujarat | Sat, Mar 9 | Gujarati/English (bilingual)
Aizawl, Mizoram | Sat, Mar 9 | English
Bengaluru, Karnataka | Fri, Mar 8 | English/Kannada (bilingual)
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh | Sun, Mar 17 | Hindi/ English (bilingual)
Bhubaneswar, Orrisa | Sat, Mar 9 | Odia/English (bilingual)
Chandigarh, Punjab/Haryana | Sat, Mar 9 | English
Chennai, Tamil Nadu | Mon, Mar 11 | Tamil/English (bilingual)
Dehradun, Uttarakhand | Sat, Mar 30 | English
Delhi NCR, Delhi | Tue, Feb 26 | English track + Hindi track
Gangtok, Sikkim | Sat, Mar 2 | English
Guwahati, Assam | Sat, Mar 9 | English
Hyderabad, Telangana/Andhra Pradesh | Wed, Mar 13 | Telugu/ English (bilingual)
Imphal, Manipur | Sat, Mar 23 | English
Indore, Madhya Pradesh | Sat, Mar 16 | English
Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh | Sat, Apr 6 | English
Jaipur, Rajasthan | Fri, Mar 15 | Hindi
Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir | Sat, Mar 9 | English
Kochi, Kerala | Sat, Mar 2 | English/Malayalam (bilingual)
Kohima, Nagaland | Sat, Mar 2 | English
Kolkata, West Bengal | Wed, Mar 6 | English/Bangla (bilingual)
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh | Mon, Mar 4 | Hindi
Mumbai, Maharashtra | Fri, Mar 15 | English/Marathi (bilingual)
Panaji, Goa | Sat, Mar 23 | English
Patna, Bihar | Fri, Mar 1 | Hindi
Pune, Maharashtra | Sat, Mar 16 | English/Marathi (bilingual)
Raipur, Chhattisgarh | Sat, Mar 16 | Hindi
Ranchi, Jharkhand | Tue, Mar 12 | Hindi
Shillong, Meghalaya | Sat, Mar 16 | English
Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh | Sat, Mar 23 | English/Telugu (bilingual)
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