Jonathan Baran
Video reporter & editor @ The Washington Post. Proud dad, humble spouse and decrepit US Army vet.
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WaPo Visual Forensics Starter Pack
Investigative team using open-source visuals, traditional reporting and emerging technologies to locate, verify and analyze visual evidence that provides readers with significant detail on how key moments of news events unfold.
@calmatters.org
CalMatters is a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization. We write stories about California, for Californians.
@sergioolmos.bsky.social
Investigative reporter @CalMatters | Winner of no awards | sergio@calmatters.org | dm for Signal | 🇲🇽
@wendyfry.bsky.social
I’m a journalist specializing in the U.S.-Mexico border, immigration and U.S.-MX foreign relations. I speak English and Spanish. Available for freelance work. Contact: wendyreports@gmail.com. Signal: WendyFry.10.
@mvjnetwork.bsky.social
MVJ is a professional association building community for vets, supporting their career growth & advocating for diversifying newsrooms through hiring more vets.
@shaneharris.bsky.social
Staff Writer @theatlantic. Author. Podcaster. Filmmaker. https://linktr.ee/shaneharris @washingtonpost alum. Signal: shaneharris.64
@dutchspace.bsky.social
Multipurpose spacecraft wrangler for @esa.int Opinions my own. https://x37b.nl
@marcolangbroek.bsky.social
Lecturer in optical Space Situational Awareness at Delft Technical University, faculty of Aerospace. Spy sats, missiles, meteorites, asteroids. Asteroid (183294). Lapsed Archaeologist (PhD). Rowing. CFS. Opinions my own. blog: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.c
@airwars.bsky.social
The civilian harm watchdog. We also run the Open Source Munitions Portal @munitionsportal.bsky.social Donate: http://airwars.org/about/donate
@tskelso.bsky.social
Operator of CelesTrak, the world's first source for orbital element sets and related software and educational materials.
@joshuasharpe.bsky.social
Investigative reporter. Wrote THE MAN NO ONE BELIEVED (WW Norton, summer 2025). Type Media Center Fellow, 2025. Knight-Wallace Feller, 23-24. Livingston Award winner. Detroit based.
@davidclinch.bsky.social
Former CNN and Storyful. Media Revenue Consultant - MGP #MediaRevenue Subscribe to my newsletter here: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/mediarevenue-david-clinch-6910281218236289024/
@byaliceli.bsky.social
Senior video journalist for the @washingtonpost.com, covering climate and the environment. Admirer of all landscapes and critters. Easily distracted by good light. Bay Area resident. Say hi: alice.li@washpost.com
@ntabrizy.bsky.social
Visual Forensics at The Washington Post | Writing a book on Iran for Pantheon Books (US) & Atlantic Books (UK) | یاشاسین تبریز
@muyixiao.bsky.social
Reporter at The New York Times Visual Investigations team. Mostly covering China. Previously with ChinaFile, Tencent, Reuters.
@rileymellen.bsky.social
Visual Investigations reporter for NYT. Let's chat: riley.mellen@nytimes.com, Signal, DMs, etc.
@ishaan-jhavs.bsky.social
Deriving structure from amorphous data and finding needles in haystacks at @nytimes.com Visual Investigations. Muzafir from Mumbai email: ishaan.jhaveri@nytimes.com signal: jhaveri.01
@alisonkilling.bsky.social
Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
@leilama.bsky.social
PBS Newshour Special Correspondent traversing the wider Middle East & Africa. Ex-TheEconomist. Mother of hounds, proud daughter of immigrants. leilamolanaallen.com
@ire.org
Providing training, resources and a community of support to journalists around the world. Join us at #IRE25 June 19-22 in New Orleans! 🔍 ire.org
@malachy.bsky.social
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
@leloveluck.bsky.social
@washingtonpost.com foreign correspondent covering international crises, including the Israel-Gaza and Lebanon wars. Based in London. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. I’m new here. 🙋🏻♀️
@mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social
reporter @WashingtonPost.com 📫 mohamad.elchamaa@washpost.com https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/mohamad-el-chamaa/
@erinmcunningham.bsky.social
Middle East News Editor @washingtonpost; previous life as a correspondent in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. Now in D.C.
@osviz-jarrett.bsky.social
Visual Forensics reporter at The Washington Post using open-source evidence and spatial analysis tools Have a news tip? DMs open.
@nrchtct.bsky.social
Research professor for information visualization FH Potsdam. This is a shadow account. The posts below are remnants of my Twitter profile from a bygone era. Meet me on Mastodon: https://vis.social/@nrchtct Visit my website: https://mariandoerk.de
@ninalutz.bsky.social
PhD-ing at UW @cip.uw.edu @uw-hcde.bsky.social. Visual media in problematic info (mis/disinfo, online hate, scams, propaganda). Thinking about images of migration, prediction, and religion in the best and worst of times. ninalutz.github.io.
@mc2x.bsky.social
Open Source Investigator @ Lighthouse Reports. Jack of all trades. She/her.
@evanhill.bsky.social
Washington Post investigations reporter. Co-host of the Schlock and Awe podcast. History Man, a wordburger please.
@catebrown.bsky.social
International investigations at @WashingtonPost. power over/power to tips, on yet another platform: cate.brown@washpost.com
@megkelly.bsky.social
senior visual forensics reporter @washingtonpost tips/ ideas: meg.kelly@washpost.com usual caveats, dm for whatsapp, signal
@ryanbeckwith.bsky.social
Newsletter editor at MSNBC. Part-time journalism teacher at Georgetown School of Continuing Studies. Creator of Your First Byline. http://yourfirstbyline.substack.com (Teague is my middle name so I should be Beckwith on second reference.)
@thomasbordeaux.bsky.social
M. Arch Student at Georgia Tech, 3D modeling for open-source research, Bylines in @bellingcat.com, Member: Bellingcat Global Authentication Project — DM's open, Signal: thomas.411
@cen4infores.bsky.social
Non-profit that exposes human rights & war crimes, counters disinformation, & combats online harms targeting women & minorities. www.info-res.org
@galen.reich.me.uk
Bellingcat | Ex-BBC R&D & Panorama | PhD in Electrical Engineering | He/Him 🌐 https://galen.reich.me.uk
@data.ft.com
The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories. https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
@cruickshank.bsky.social
Geospatial analyst, OSINT investigator, and journalist. Investigating the intersection of climate resilience and human systems, and sometimes writing fiction. From 🇦🇺, now in 🇪🇺. 📍Berlin, Germany https://www.michaelcruickshank.me/
@bellingcat.com
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate