Tech & AI
What We Learned Building a Chatbot for La Silla Vacía’s Newsroom Archive
We spent 12 months building an AI tool for our independent news site in Colombia. Here’s what it taught us about running a newsroom in the age of AI.
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News & Analysis
Journalism in Exile: How Newsrooms Can Balance Verification, Source Protection, and Credibility
Operating a newsroom hundreds or thousands of miles away from a country presents a challenge: how do journalists deliver accurate, reliable news to audiences when reporters can’t safely be on the ground?
Reporter’s Notebook: How to Track Down People Who Don’t Want to Be Found
OCCRP’s research director offers up a series of tips and techniques to help reporters safely and effectively build a profile of whoever they are looking for.
Data Journalism
Journalists in Africa and South America Are Mapping the Mines Devouring the World’s Rainforests
Two journalism and technology projects are sharing tools and methods across continents to map where mining is devastating the Amazon and Congo basins.
Methodology
New York Times’s Malachy Browne on the Future of Visual Investigations in the Age of AI
What began as the niche practice of verifying shaky mobile phone footage in an era of social media chaos has since become one of the most consequential developments in modern journalism.
Climate Data Journalism
Turning the Threat to a Distant Glacier into a Local Story Through Data Visualization
New York Times climate and environmental graphics reporter Mira Rojanasakul discusses how her team visualized the sea level rise threat from the melting Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.
How They Did It News & Analysis
Building a Multi-Agent AI System To Sift Through Thousands of Russian Social Media Posts
The system built by BBC Eye allowed a team of open source specialists and reporters to accelerate their investigation of Russian ultra nationalists and their political impact.
Data Journalism
How The Washington Post Combined Data and Human Stories to Cover Hurricane Helene’s Aftermath
From Storybench, Washington Post climate reporter Brady Dennis is interviewed about his immersive story on Hurricane Helene and the importance of combining data and human experience.
Data Journalism
Mexico Scrapped Its Transparency Agency — Journalists Are Still Investigating Corruption
A year after Mexico dissolved the autonomous body that oversaw government transparency, journalists are still finding ways to access public documents and conduct data-based investigations.
How They Did It
New York Times’ Hannah Dreier on Wildland Firefighters and the Deadly Smoke Risks They Face
The recipient of the 2026 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting discusses how she conducted her award-winning investigation on maskless wildland firefighters.