I’ve been working on a series of posts based on my talk at the Centre for Investigative Journalism Summer School about using #genAI in investigative journalism. Here’s the first on generating ideas - how have you used it?
Generative AI can be used at all points in the journalism process: this post focuses on pre-production Last week I delivered a session at the Centre for Investigative Journalism Summer School about us...
Another tool to use for research! 🚨 This one helps you search through the United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission easily, collecting and downloading financial information for companies registered in the United States. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq4m...
In this How To... episode, Bellingcat's Tech community lead Galen Reich explains how you can use Bellingcat’s Edgar tool for your financial investigations. You can use this tool to search for financial information for companies in the United States that are filed in the SEC database - that’s the United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission. You can find the tool here: https://github.com/bellingcat/EDGAR Red our guide: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2023/12/18/new-tools-dig-deeper-into-hard-to-aggregate-us-corporate-data/ Find the SEC database here: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/ Other videos in our tech series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCMy8OffHM You can join our Discord server on this link: https://discord.gg/bellingcat And you can find all of our open-source research tools on our GitHub at: https://github.com/bellingcat Chapters: Intro 00:00 Intro to the tool 00:21 Why the tool is useful for investigations 01:47 Walkthrough of the tool 02:34 Output of the tool 03:41 Ways to reach out to ask for help or contribute with future development 04:42
A flurry of follows brings me back to Bluesky once more having already largely switched to LinkedIn. Let’s see if it sticks this time (but LinkedIn is still probably best: www.linkedin.com/in/paulbrads...)
We're still on the hunt for our next editor, someone who can commission and edit highly sensitive and complex investigations. It's a remote position and the deadline to apply is the last day of this month. Find all the details of the role and how to apply here: www.bellingcat.com/editor-posit...
We're now publishing TheyWorkForYou's register of interests data as a big spreadsheet www.mysociety.org/2024/01/17/i...
Tl;dr: We’re now releasing our register of interests data as a spreadsheet.
Article (quoting me) in the Times today on the potential problems with the FCA's reorganisation of its FOI operations
If you're interested in FOI, here's an event for you - a day's discussion of many aspects of the current state of FOI. It's free and open to all, on Fri 8 March, organised by openDemocracy & held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (DoI: I'm involved). ials.sas.ac.uk/events/where...
New guest post: How is @correctiv.orgonlinejournalismblog.com/2024/01/29/o...
Photo: Ivo Mayr, CORRECTIV.Europe The CORRECTIV.Europe project, founded by German investigative media outlet Correctiv, aims to help local journalists publish data stories who wouldn’t otherwise hav...
Very excited that this year Birmingham City University are hosting the History Of Games 2024 conference! Deadline for abstracts is 31 Jan - the theme is Families of Games and we are keen to hear how you interpret this. Further details and full cfp available here: www.history-of-games.com/cfp-2024