News & Analysis
Saving Journalism: A Vision for the Post-COVID World
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A new report maps ambitious COVID-era efforts around the world to save journalism, including ideas from the United States, South Africa, Denmark, and Singapore.
методы и инструменты
Как применять визуальное мышление в онлайн-расследованиях: Советы Хенка ван Эсса
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С помощью разных хитрых операторов в Google, обратного поиска по изображениям и визуального мышления можно добиться прогресса в ваших расследованиях. Советы Хенка ван Эсса.
tools & techniques
GIJN Masterclass with Paul Myers: Online Research Tips for Digging into the Pandemic and Beyond
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In a GIJN masterclass webinar presented to 700 journalists from 94 countries, BBC internet research expert Paul Myers described the open source tools, syntax tricks, and search techniques that can help unearth elusive content, images, and social media posts. Myers cited searches for information on COVID-19 in numerous examples, and stressed the need for logical thought in order to unlock the power of advanced search tools.
Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Simple Google Searches, COVID Contracts, Mining Indigenous Land, Nashville Hot Spots, Blackstone in Berlin
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Have you ever noticed how your Google search results now appear with boxes of information extracted from the websites by the search engine? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from November 9 to 15 found The Markup’s new “Simple Search” browser extension, which allows you to view the best results in the “traditional” Google search format. We also discovered a visualization of the connection between members of the ruling British Conservative Party and COVID-19 contracts, InfoAmazonia’s investigation into mining requests in protected Indigenous land in the Amazon, and German daily Der Tagesspiegel showing that the American private equity group Blackstone is a major private property owner in the German capital, Berlin.
Журналистика данных
В Топ-10 DDJ: Последний день Помпеи, российские тюрьмы и британское кумовство
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«Простой поиск» в Google c помощью бесплатного расширения от Markup, визуализация стихийных бедствий за 120 лет, подкаст о данных и бесплатное участие в саммите о данных.
The Friday 5
What We’re Reading: Greenwald Out of The Intercept, Collaborating on Pandemic Data, and Bellingcat’s Updated Toolkit
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For this week’s Friday 5, where GIJN rounds up interesting journalism news in English from around the world, we read about Glenn Greenwald’s resignation from The Intercept, a data journalism collaboration on COVID-19 data which reaches across eight newsrooms, and Bellingcat’s already excellent, and now updated, Online Investigation Toolkit.
The Friday 5
What We’re Reading: Financial Crimes in the US Art Market, Wayback Weaponization, and Google’s $1 Billion for Publishers
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For this week’s Friday 5, where GIJN rounds up key reads from around the world, we found a ready-for-prime-time study on financial crimes in the US art market, how misinformation actors are weaponizing the Wayback Machine, and Google’s not-so-altruistic $1 billion for publishers.
Data Journalism
Here’s Why Investigative Reporters Need to Know Knowledge Graphs
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Across the data science community, knowledge graphs have become a growing phenomenon in recent years, driving many applications including virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa. Friedrich Lindenberg, from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, writes about how its data platform Aleph makes use of knowledge graphs to help investigative reporters analyze and cross-reference data.
OSINT
Мастер-класс GIJN с Полом Майерсом: Советы по поиску в Интернете на темы пандемии и не только
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Искусный онлайн-сыщик описал доступные инструменты, синтаксические приемы и методы поиска, которые позволяют найти трудноуловимые материалы, изображения и посты в социальных сетях, связанные с пандемией COVID-19.
The Friday 5
What We’re Reading: F@%# the Pulitzer, Tough Questions for “Plandemic”, and the Ethics of Showing Your Work Pre-Pub
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This week’s Friday 5, where we round up our favorite reads from around the online world in English, includes Meduza’s report on Russian editor Roman Badanin’s Pulitzer-charged rant against The New York Times, ProPublica’s sober response to the “Plandemic” viral video, and Poynter’s point about an ethics policy that includes guidelines for pre-publication source review.