The toolkit helps reporters discover tools in categories like satellite imagery, maps, and social media, and is designed to help researchers learn how to use each tool with in-depth descriptions.
Three experts dig into common open source errors that they’ve encountered to help other online investigators improve the quality of their work.
Having flagged the top tips at NICAR23, IRE23, and GIJC23 in Sweden, GIJN offers the following 10 user-friendly tools that you might consider in your next investigations.
Bellingcat fellow Dennis Kovtun tests the online geolocation capabilities of two popular AI chatbots — Microsoft’s Bing AI and Google’s Bard — and finds both have some serious drawbacks.
From a film investigating the attempted murder of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny to a stark cautionary tale about how climate change is playing out on the Arctic coast, see the Oscar-nominated documentary shortlists.
These new reporting tools and apps, which recently debuted at two Bellingcat Hackathons, can help journalists easily archive videos, locate satellite imagery, and track people via online reviews.
Practicing good mental hygiene is a continuous process for investigators that requires active input at all times. Bellingcat offers these small steps to minimize and mitigate your exposure to distressing content, to possibly save you from burnout or worse.
GIJN’s Olga Simanovych offers her editor’s picks for the best investigative reporting in the Russian and Ukrainian languages in 2022.
Bellingcat’s Foeke Postma offers tips and tools for using new technology and online resources to investigate old photographs.
In our latest GIJN webinar, members of forensic investigation teams from Bellingcat and The Washington Post explained how they analyzed the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot in the West Bank city of Jenin in May.
