GETTING STARTED

  • The Kit
  • You Are Already an Investigator
  • Safety First!

INVESTIGATION ESSENTIALS

  • What Makes an Investigation
  • Evaluating Evidence and Information Sources
  • Get Your Facts Straight: The Basics of Fact-Checking
  • Navigating Libraries and Archives for Investigations
  • Investigation is Collaboration: How to Make It Work
  • Crowdsourcing Evidence for Investigations

INVESTIGATION METHODS

  • OSINT – Diving into an ‘Ocean’ of Information
  • Search Smarter by Dorking
  • Retrieving and Archiving Information from Websites
  • How to See What’s Behind a Website
  • Using Maps to See Beyond the Obvious
  • Data Acquisition for Beginners
  • Geolocation Methods: A step by step guide

IN THE FIELD

  • Away From Your Screen, Out in the Field
  • Interviews: the Human Element of Your Investigation
  • How to Manage Your Sources
  • Bio-investigations in the field
  • Gathering Visual Evidence

DIVING DEEPER

  • Supply Chain and Product Investigations
  • Signs, Symbols and Other Visual Clues
  • What’s in a Company?
  • Thinking Critically About Maps: Researching, Resisting and Re-imagining the World
  • Investigating Climate Change Adaptation
  • How to Track Online Disinformation Networks

COMMUNICATING INVESTIGATIONS

  • All the World’s a Story: Tales From Invisible Populations
  • Eight Breakable Rules of Investigative Writing
  • The Making of an Anti-biometric Mass Surveillance Campaign

CASES

  • Extracting Information From Social Apps: A case of exposed financial data
  • Exploring Connections Between Political Parties and Personal Data Brokers in the UK
  • ad.watch - Investigating Political Advertisements on Facebook

ABOUT THE KIT

  • The Kit
  • Credits and Licensing
  • Data Use Policy

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