The Friday 5

What We’re Reading: Google Mobility Reports, Pegasus Spyware for Virus Tracking, Justice for Jan Kuciak, COVID Corruption

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This week’s Friday 5, where we round up our favorite reads from around the online world in English, includes the launch of Google’s Community Mobility Reports that track social distancing trends in 131 countries, how the group behind Pegasus spyware created software for COVID-19, and news that the man who murdered investigative journalist Jan Kuciak was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

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অনলাইনে ব্যক্তির খোঁজ: পল মায়ার্সের যত পরামর্শ

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অনলাইন অনুসন্ধানের গুরু বলে ধরা হয় বিবিসির পল মায়ার্সকে। জিআইজেএনের অনুসন্ধানী সাংবাদিকতা সম্মেলনগুলোতে তার সেশন দারুন জনপ্রিয়। অনলাইন ঘেঁটে মানুষ সম্পর্কে তথ্য খুঁজে বের করার নানান কৌশল আর টুলের কথা জানতে সবাই সেখানে ভিড় জমান। সম্প্রতি তাকে নিয়ে একটি ওয়েবিনার আয়োজন করি আমরা। পড়ুন, সেখানে তিনি কী বলেছেন।

Amazon Prime

The Future of High-Quality Documentaries Reaching A World Audience

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Traditionally, documentary films can be a hard sell and haven’t always enraptured audiences. However, these films are now rising to the top of the heap given the possibilities of reaching an ever growing audience in a new battleground — the streaming arena, with the likes of established giants Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and Apple.

Data Journalism

Online Methods to Investigate the Who, Where, and When of a Person

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Online research is often a challenge for traditional investigative reporters, journalism lecturers and students. Information from the web can be fake, biased, incomplete or all of the above. Offline, too, there is no happy hunting ground with unbiased people or completely honest governments. In the end, it all boils down to asking the right questions, digital or not. This chapter gives you some strategic advice and tools for digitizing three of the biggest questions in journalism: who, where and when?

Tools & Techniques

How to Become a Deep Web Super Sleuth

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Search engines only show a small fraction of the content that is actually available online. Leonie Kijewski highlights four tips on finding databases that can give you all the info that Google won’t, based on journalist Albrecht Ude’s presentation at the recent Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Hamburg.