I spent almost two decades in journalism, mostly doing long-form investigations for television in my native Poland. A few years ago, I decided to leave the TV station for a job as Google’s main trainer for the media in Central and Eastern Europe. My job involved running workshops for journalists, mainly on advanced search techniques, verification and fact-checking, and working with data, among other things. It was a pleasant experience but a fixed-term contract. When it ended, I had to figu...
