A Philippines Election Workshop Series for newsroom editors and journalists will be conducted by the University of the Philippines (UP), through the university’s Office of the Vice President for Public Affairs and the Department of Journalism to ramp up knowledge on effective election coverage. The said workshop series is supported by Google News Initiative.
This online learning event will offer a breadth of skills for election coverage — from finding ideas on Google Trends, producing data-driven stories, conducting investigations on political ads, to producing your newsroom’s best election coverage on YouTube.
All interested media from print, broadcast, and online news organizations must sign up via bit.ly/UPElectionWorkshop for the workshops scheduled on 21 to 23 February 2022 (first cohort) and 28 February to 02 March 2022 (second cohort).
“Due to the pandemic, covering this year’s elections will be heavily online. Journalists, especially those who are accustomed to face-to-face coverage, have to upgrade their skills to meet this new challenge,” according to Dr. Rachel Khan, Acting Dean of the UP College of Mass Communication.
The trainers are award-winning journalists Craig Silverman of ProPublica and Kuek Ser Kuang Keng of Rainforest Investigations Network established by the Pulitzer Center, Trinna Leong as Google News Lab’s first Southeast Asia teaching fellow, and YouTube’s News and Civics head Joyce Hau.
“Empowering journalists with the knowledge and tools they need regarding fact-checking and effective election coverage is important. It’s an honor to partner with the University of the Philippines and support their Philippines Elections Workshop Series for the upcoming 2022 national elections,” said Irene Jay Liu, APAC Lead, Google News Lab.