A little more than a year ago, we made Google Trends data available in real time; and increasingly, it’s helping people around the world explore the global reaction to major events.
Earlier this month, we were thrilled to welcome the American and Australian winners of our inaugural Google News Lab Fellowship class to Google HQ in Mountain View.
When I started working at YouTube in 2007, the 2008 election cycle was just getting underway. We knew the platform was starting to have an influence on politics, with videos like the infamous “Macaca Moment”, Obama Girl’s “I…
It’s been quite a year for the news industry. The events of the last year have brought many of the opportunities and challenges that news organizations face every day to national and international attention. Topics like fake news, the…
A few weeks ago, our 2016 American and Australian Google News Lab Fellows visited Google Headquarters in Mountain View to get to know the Google News Lab — and each other — a little better. Since…
Over the course of two decades, the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) has compiled a national view of gender and race breakdowns of U.S. journalists. The newly released 2017 data helps us understand who is working in America’s newsrooms, and provides a unique…
Last year we launched Tilegrams with Pitch Interactive to make the process of creating a hexagon map or other cartogram easier. Now we have a new version: as of today, Tilegrams supports regional boundaries in…
A few weeks from now, 43 million registered voters will have the chance to cast their ballots as France votes to elect a new President.
One of the striking things about working with Google Trends data is the insight it gives…