Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://archive.gijn.org/tag/bellingcat/page/4/)
From college sophomores to 9-to-5 tech workers, open source hobbyist-investigators are gaining huge audiences by reconstructing events on the ground in Ukraine and elsewhere around the world.
Christo Grozev, the executive director of Bellingcat, gives his insights for covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He talks about how the role of reporters has changed in modern day conflict, and reveals how his team is gathering and verifying data while focusing on investigating potential war crimes.
With the extraordinary measures being taken to counter the coronavirus outbreak, the work of investigative journalists scrutinizing abuses of power and exploitation of the vulnerable has never been more vital. Amid the fast-unfolding crisis, where should investigative reporters begin? GIJN asked leading journalists in our community for their advice to investigative reporters around the world.
Verifying video materials should be a routine part of reporting, but knowing how to use the digital tools to verify fake content is just one part of the skill. The creative techniques behind video verification are even more important.
Quiztime es un juego de Twitter amado por los periodistas y otros detectives en línea pensado para perfeccionar habilidades de geolocalización. Todos los días, uno de los quizmasters tuitea una imagen misteriosa, y los participantes tratan de averiguar en qué parte del mundo fue tomada examinando la más mínima de las pistas.
Colombian media outlet Cerosetenta joined the international collective of journalists and researchers Bellingcat and research agency Forensic Architecture to map police violence during ongoing protests in Colombia and, in a second step, to reconstruct crimes committed in this context.
Bellingcat, a UK-based open source and social media investigation site, put together a seriously impressive comprehensive list of open source verification and research tools. It includes satellite and mapping services, tools for verifying photos and videos, websites to archive hyperlinks and much more. Dig in!
In this GIJN webinar, we bring together two of the authors of the investigation that revealed the names and ranks of officers in the Russian intelligence agency allegedly involved in the poisoning of opposition figure Alexey Navalny and an expert on media ethics. They will discuss the way the investigation was carried out, and how far journalists should go when there is evidence suggesting a crime may have been instigated or committed by government authorities.
টাকা লেনদেনের আনুষ্ঠানিক পথগুলো নজরদারির কারণে বন্ধ হয়ে পড়ায়, এখন অবৈধ অর্থ বিনিময় এবং সন্ত্রাসী অর্থায়নের সম্ভাব্য ক্ষেত্র হয়ে উঠেছে ক্রিপ্টোকারেন্সি। কিন্তু অনেকেরই জানা নেই কীভাবে অনুসন্ধান করতে হয়, ভার্চুয়াল মুদ্রার এই অচেনা জগতে। এই প্রতিবেদনে, অনুসন্ধানের সেই পদ্ধতি ব্যাখ্যা করা হয়েছে ধাপে ধাপে।
The excessive force used against anti-racism protesters around the world, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in the US, reveals the need for more visual forensic skills in newsrooms to hold police to account. GIJN identified 12 tools and 12 methods that proved effective in several recent investigations that exposed harm done by security forces.