Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://archive.gijn.org/tag/phone-records/)
Eight investigative reporters share their current favorite tools and apps, for tasks ranging from social media search to locating prisoners, tracking the global supply chain, and uncovering Russian military recruiters.
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.