News & Analysis
10 Things You Should Know About AI in Journalism
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Mattia Peretti, manager of JournalismAI at the London School of Economics, discusses the 10 things reporters should know about how artificial intelligence can impact journalism.
Tools & Techniques
Using Telegram Chats to Reveal Life in Bucha Under Russian Occupation
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How reporters at OCCRP took a neighborhood Telegram chat from Bucha, Ukraine and turned it into an investigation of life under Russian occupation.
Tools & Techniques
New Technology and Online Resources to Conduct Investigations With Old Photos
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Bellingcat’s Foeke Postma offers tips and tools for using new technology and online resources to investigate old photographs.
Tools & Techniques
Beyond Viral Clips and Lip Syncing: A Guide to Investigating on TikTok
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TikTok, a video-sharing site where users can post videos of themselves dancing, lip syncing, and doing viral challenges, has seen a surge in popularity in recent years. While many posts are focused on jokes and music, TikTok has surpassed 2 billion downloads and is popular around the world, which presents opportunities for the open source research community to use the platform in investigations. This guide explains how.
Tools & Techniques
Best Practices for Staying Safe While Investigating Human Trafficking
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At a JournalismFund.eu webinar, journalists Annie Kelly and Ian Urbina spoke of their experiences documenting human trafficking around the world.
Tools & Techniques
10 Lessons from Bellingcat’s Logan Williams on Digital Forensic Techniques
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Bellingcat’s Logan Williams, who presented a panel on digital forensic reporting labs at the 2022 International Journalism Festival 2022 in Perugia, Italy, gives his top tips for journalists interested in open source digital investigations.
Tools & Techniques
10 Tips for Using Geolocation and Open Source Data to Fuel Investigations
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Speaking at IJF22, Centre for Information Resilience investigations director Ben Strick offered 10 tips for integrating geolocation and open source data in investigative journalism.
Organized Crime Guide
Investigating Environmental Crimes and Climate Change
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Networks of business interests, government officials, and criminal groups run illegal operations that harm the environment in multiple ways. They drive worldwide illegal trafficking in wildlife and seafood, timber, minerals, hazardous waste, and toxic chemicals. Such environmental crimes are sometimes connected with other criminal activity, such as drug trafficking and money laundering.
surveillance
Tips to Uncover the Spy Tech Your Government Buys
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In June, a French court indicted executives from two surveillance companies on charges of complicity in torture in Libya and Egypt, following revelations by journalists about their alleged technology sales to repressive regimes. In a series of interviews, investigative reporters shared tips and tools that newsrooms around the world can use to uncover the spyware and monitoring systems their governments are buying.
Tools & Techniques
Simple Tips for Verifying if a Tweet Screenshot Is Real or Fake
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Shayan Sardarizadeh, a reporter who covers online misinformation for BBC Monitoring, offers several tips for verifying or debunking suspect Twitter screenshots.