Are You Being Tailed? Tips for Reporters Concerned About Physical Surveillance
Would a group of reporters who knew – for sure – that they were being followed be able to identify the operatives sent to track them?
Fantastic — and sobering — story today from @gijn.org's own @lauradixon.bsky.social. She attended a expert seminar for reporters on how to detect/avoid physical surveillance. In one exercise, they all had to navigate central London & then identify the person assigned to tail them.
Everyone failed.
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Global Tour of Investigative Podcasts: 2024 Edition
Our annual round-up of compelling investigative audio stories, as reviewed by GIJN’s global team. Featuring stories from the US, Germany, Switzerland, El Salvador, Turkey, and Russia.
2024 was dubbed the year of the “podcast election."
🧵 Read our annual round-up of compelling investigative audio stories, as reviewed by GIJN’s global team. Featuring stories from the US, Germany, Switzerland, El Salvador, Turkey, and Russia. https://twp.ai/1MKFKQ
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Open Source Research and Public Interest Technology at Bellingcat | Bellingcat's Online Open Source Investigation Toolkit: https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit
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I report and run projects on the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times where we collect and analyze audio-visual evidence. Ireland and New York. nytimes.com/visual-investigations
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Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars.
Visual Investigations at The New York Times
Senior Investigator @ CIR
Formerly: Bellingcat, DFRLab
Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
