Journalists, students and academics got a crash course in social media giant Google's news tools during a workshop on Thursday afternoon. 

The Google search and verification workshop covered verification, data visualisation, advanced search techniques and how to find and use real-time search data in stories.

Presented by Abigail Edge, Google News Lab's Teaching Fellow for the UK and Ireland, the event was organised by Google, Times of Malta and the University of Malta’s Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences.

The Google News Initiative is the social media giant's effort to work with the news industry to help journalism thrive in the digital age.

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