Great news! Bellingcat just launched the new Online Investigations Toolkit. In the toolkit you can discover tools for everything from satellite imagery analysis, to social media scraping, transportation tracking or archiving research material. bellingcat.com/resources/2024…

Years ago, during my time at @Bellingcat, I created a Google Sheet to catalog online tools and resources. It's been amazing to see how far it has come. A newly revamped version was launched just this week. Explore it yourself here: bellingcat [dot] gitbook [dpt] io/toolkit

With new #remotesensing techniques we can better track conflict-pollution. In this new guide for Global Investigative Journalism Network we dive into how wars increase #methane emissions from bombed oil and gas infrastructure and landfills, fueling the #climatecrisis. A small🧵1/x gijn.org/stories/invest…

On Oct. 10, in this GIJN webinar, experts from ICIJ & Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project will share useful resources to help journalists interested in investigating shell companies, focusing both on the strategy of the reporting & the most relevant tips and tools. Register now: twp.ai/1DJMcg

I talked about Bellingcat's new toolkit in this stage talk episode: youtube.com/watch?v=nYTzdm…

How can online volunteer communities support investigative journalism (and in particular open source research like it is done at Bellingcat )? Sign up for this online talk on October 24 which is jointly offered by Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Nieman Foundation. brk.mn/volunteerjourn…

The toolkit from Bellingcat's Johanna Wild 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. More: twp.ai/1HQuic

Who knew that Google Maps image filenames were so useful? But when Koltai.bsky.social showed me how to extract them, it made so much sense to build a simple tool that does it for you! 🖼️👩‍💻 bellingcat.com/resources/2024…

💰 Looking forward to a day digging into council finance data with BCU Journalism Data Journalism students as we begin a Bellingcat + BBC Shared Data Unit hackday

It’s Verif!cation Quiz Bot and it’s #MondayQuiz 🔥 At what time was this photo taken? 📮reply just to me with an answer 🤝 reply to all for collaboration 🌈have fun

ONLINE: 10/24/24: "How Online Volunteer Communities Can Support Investigative Journalism" with Johanna Wild of Bellingcat, a 2023-24 Nieman Foundation-Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Fellow. She'll discuss open-source internet sourcing, citizen journalism, access to information cyber.harvard.edu/events/how-onl…

Have you tried our new Online Investigations Toolkit yet? In our latest Tech Series video, we invited some of the volunteers that worked on the toolkit to present their favourite features and share how the toolkit can elevate your own investigations. youtube.com/watch?v=-Y3GQ6…

Do you know UNOSAT Analysis? It's a site that maps humanitarian emergencies across the globe utilising United Nations Satellite Centre data. We just added it to Bellingcat's Online Open Source Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/a…

My talk "How Online Volunteer Communities Can Support Investigative Journalism" is now available online via Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society: youtube.com/watch?v=t_9W6T…. It was co-sponsored by Nieman Foundation and covers various examples from our work @Bellingcat. #OpenSourceResearch

Our first story in our new AFP + Bellingcat collaboration looks at how the Ukrainian town of Vovchansk was virtually wiped off the map by Russia's invasion bellingcat.com/news/2024/10/2…

We just added VesselFinder, a live marine vessel tracker to Bellingcat's Online Open Source Investigation Toolkit. Learn more about it here: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/a… #OpenSourceResearch

LittleSis is a site that aims to make it easier for people to “follow the money and discover connections between those that hold public and private sector power” in the US. We just added it to our Online Open Source Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/a…

Would you like to see public Instagram photos and videos without logging in to Instagram? Have a look at Picuki which we just added to Bellingcat's Online Open Source Investigation Toolkit. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/a… #opensourceresearch

ICYM: Former BKC fellow Johanna Wild shares insights from her time at Bellingcat on how volunteer communities can power global investigative journalism. Talk cosponsored by Nieman Foundation. Watch the recording here: youtu.be/t_9W6Tfeb_w