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.
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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.
How They Did It
Behind the Story: How Two Reporters Uncovered Deep-Sea Mining Secrets
A Pulitzer Center fellow and CNN senior reporter followed the development of the nascent deep-sea mining industry and how it’s intertwined with defense priorities in the US and China.
Data Journalism
Making Trillions Make Sense: How Reuters Visualized the AI Economy
How do you make a trillion dollars feel real to someone who has never seen that much money? Vineet Khare and Mayank Bhatt faced that very challenge for their data-driven investigation into AI investment.