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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Internet Research
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Tips for Using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine in Your Next Investigation
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit library that is best known for the Wayback Machine, a staple for investigative journalists around the world. Launched 20 years ago, the Wayback Machine now archives much of the public web at the rate of more than 1 billion archived URLs per day.
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How To Save Online Evidence And Why It Matters: Part Two
In part one of this blog I discussed the need for journalists to save evidence they find online and some of the techniques for recording that information. In part two, I’ll focus on some of the issues journalists face when it comes to saving information from social media and mobile devices.
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How to Save Online Evidence and Why It Matters: Part One
As journalists we are used to saving information. We securely store documents, keep meticulous notes, save and back up important emails on our computers. But what about the information we find online during the course of our investigations?