Google Nigeria trains media practitioners on election reportage

Google Nigeria on Friday tasked the media on the use of modern data tools for effective reportage,especially of the forthcoming February general elections in the country.

Vanguard has more:

Google Nigeria on Friday tasked the media on the use of modern data tools for effective reportage,especially of the forthcoming February general elections in the country.

Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Google’s
Communications and Public Affairs Manager, Anglophone, West Africa, made the appeal at the Google Data Tools for Elections Reporting
Workshop held in Lagos.

He said there were various useful tools such as Google Advance Search, Google Trends, Social
Media Streams, Google Alert and Tabula which could be used in sourcing data.

Kola-Ogunlade said the tools would help the media to get the picture of what was happening at a particular time at different places and getting
it to the public.

The manager said that these tools had actually eased off the challenges of manpower, expensive
time and technical skills which were experienced by media houses.

“These tools can be used to monitor trends about elections in real time, whereby impressions about
candidates and even the party are seen.

“With the tools, you can come out with creative visualisation that helps you to communicate your news to the public,’’ he said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Google for election workshop was a hands-on
certificate program focused on using social media tools, visualisation and citizen reporting tools in “unearthing” and telling elections-based stories.

The workshop was as a result of the important role the social media and online journalism had played in helping to build stable democracies
resulting from informed voting.

Participants at the workshop numbering about 100, were taught how to use online tools like
Fusion Tables, Polls, Trends and Tables to get result and develop stories.

The program is ideal for editors, journalists, social media, digital reporters who are interested in
becoming proficient in leveraging online digital tools for better elections reporting.

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