News Researchers Starter Pack
A list of people who are or have been working with or teaching the art of finding information from open sources, public and commercial registries etc. (a subset of what is know commonly known as Open Source Intelligence, OSINT) in news media. DM me suggestions! List will be updated sporadically.
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@trondjs.bsky.social
@marinawg.bsky.social
Executive Editor, Pulitzer Center. Serving at GIJN and CLIP’s board of directors. Pulitzer Prize ‘17. JSK Fellow ‘19.
@leguape.bsky.social
Equal opportunities verificator of stuff (just don't call it OSINT near me) since 2010. Would rather be riding a bike. Low key Puglian tourism & alcohol free drinks influencer.
@tbkaas.bsky.social
Data Journalism and OSINT. Analyst and Educator – Co-founder of Kaas & Mulvad and KM24.
@oliverklein.bsky.social
Factchecker @ZDF, OSINT-Trainer (for law enforcement, ARD.ZDF-Medienakademie). Topics: Media, police, extremism, #OSINT. No ZDF-Account.
@lindemann.bsky.social
OSINT expert, TV journalist and producer. Teaching people how to search the web (and other parts of the world) for more than 25 years. Regular speaker at @netzwerkrecherche.org, Dataharvest and GIJC.
@mikareport.bsky.social
Ukraine, OSINT, UAP & DX. Foreign news journalist at the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle). Based in Finland, ex-China & USA. @jskstanford.bsky.social Fellow 2004. Author of the book "Kimlandia" about North Korea. http://facebook.com/Mikareport
@byeskille.no
journalist, and a bit of a nerd. Working for Norwegian Broadcasting Corp. (NRK) Other means of contact (incl Signal and PGP): https://byeskille.no/en/encrypted-contact/
@bendobrown.bsky.social
Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars - Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT - Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social - Prev at BBC Africa Eye. Bellingcat contributor.
@paulradu.bsky.social
co-founder @occrp.org/investigative reporter/innovator/social entrepreneur/Ashoka fellow
@jmuellertoewe.bsky.social
Senior Investigative Editor @t-online, Berlin / Reporting on Foreign influence operations, National security, Lobbying and Crime (Threema: 4E6EXA2Y)
@peterhornung.bsky.social
Correspondent & Bureau Chief S Asia, ARD German Radio | Investigative Reporter #panamapapers #predatoryjournals #scoring | @realroyalmail | p.hornung@ndr.de
@larswienand.bsky.social
Leitender Redakteur Recherche bei t-online. Verifaction & OSINT. Berlin und gern im Westerwald. – Signal: LarsWienand.99 Threema: https://threema.id/RVSUW5VS
@gavinsblog.bsky.social
CEO @Vizlegal.bsky.social | Co-founder @righttoknow.bsky.social | #FOIA, #legaltech, journalism, OSINT, urban design | Fmr Innovation Dir @Storyful | "Very Irish" 🇮🇪 https://gav.substack.com Cork, Ireland.
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Journalist @404Media.co Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
@tarjeils.bsky.social
Journalist. Author. Right to information-nerd. Occasionally using redacted documents as raw material for pictures.
@torkjell.bsky.social
Journalist i Aftenpostens gravegruppe. Tips: torkjell@aftenposten.no eller 91859540 (Signal)
@bastianobermayer.bsky.social
journalist / received #panamapapers & #strachevideo with @frederikobermaier.com / #pulitzer prize / @derspiegel / @ZDF / @derstandardat / board @FbdnStories/ member of @icij.bsky.social / & @papertrailmedia.bsky.social (www.papertrailmedia.de)
@frederikobermaier.com
journalist | pulitzer prize #PanamaPapers | member of @icij.bsky.social | board of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism | co-founder @acdatacollective.bsky.social & @papertrailmedia.de (www.papertrailmedia.de) | www.frederikobermaier.com
@siljenatvik.bsky.social
Researcher at NRK - Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Investigative journalism. News research. Osint. Data journalism. Ai. Literature. Music. Oslo.
@silleri.bsky.social
Journalist som dekker helsepolitikk for Altinget.no. Liker fakta og undersøkende journalistikk. Har hund, ski og fjellstøvler.
@hackette7.bsky.social
Director Arena for Journalism in Europe https://journalismarena.eu/, Lecturer Gothenburg University https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/brigittealfter2 Journalist http://www.alfter.dk/ Posting on journalism, Europe, collaborative journalism
@jfuruly.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, Aftenposten, Oslo, Norway. Data journalism. Defense & security. OSINT / IMINT / satellite imagery analysis. Worked with Skup / Faktisk Verifiserbar.
@richib.bsky.social
Portfolio: https://www.clippings.me/users/richardirvinebrown Journo. BBC Verify. Digital investigative journalism since 2014, cars/money data before, BBC Sport 2007-2011.
@shayan86.bsky.social
BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
@craigsilverman.bsky.social
Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer. I write the free Digital Investigations newsletter and edited the Verification Handbook series. Previously: ProPublica, BuzzFeed News. https://digitalinvestigations.substack.com/ https://craigsilverman.ca
@trondjs.bsky.social
Investigative journalist / news researcher at @aftenposten.no, Oslo, Norge / Norway Signal: @trondjs.01 https://www.aftenposten.no/av/trond-j-stroem