Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://archive.gijn.org/tag/my-favorite-tools/)
For GIJN’s series on journalists’ favorite tools, we spoke with Elie Guckert, a French independent journalist who focuses on far right groups and armed conflict for sites including Mediapart and Bellingcat. Guckert shared several geolocation tools, as well as a key tip about the value of right wing propaganda as a source of information about the intentions of those groups.
Conoce a Lisseth Boon, periodista que ha realizado investigaciones sobre violaciones de derechos humanos, tráfico de oro, minería ilegal y delitos ambientales en Venezuela. En esta pieza Boon habla sobre herramientas de diseño y visualización para hacer mejores reportajes.
Para la serie de GIJN de herramientas favoritas de los periodistas, hablamos con Alberto Cairo, Jefe de cátedra en Periodismo visual y director de visualización, comunicación de datos y diseño de la información en el Instituto de Data Science y Computación en la Universidad de Miami en Florida.
For our series on journalists’ favorite tools, we spoke to Alberto Cairo, head of visualization at the University of Miami’s Institute for Data Science and Computing. Cairo shared several user-friendly tools and core principles to help investigative reporters shape their data visually to create new insights for audiences.
For our series on journalists’ favorite tools, we spoke to award-winning Mexican journalist Marcela Turati, co-founder of Quinto Elemento Lab, about the resources she uses to investigate disappearances in Mexico’s drug war. While information from victims’ families is paramount, she also shared insights on the value of open source tools, bank records, social media mining, and collaboration with nonprofit forensic teams in tracking the patterns behind the crisis.
It’s been another exciting year at GIJN with some great original stories — including tips, tools, techniques, and case studies galore, as well as our regular series How They Did It, My Favorite Tools, and Focus (GIJN’s member profiles) — alongside some of our favorite reads from around the web.