Investigative journalism can be very time-consuming and expensive, as journalists have to invest in researching, monitoring and interviewing sources for a lengthier period of time and sometimes information can be classified or harder to obtain.
Gary Price, research director for the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) and Margot Williams, research editor for investigations at The Intercept, have narrowed down their tools and strategies in this IJNet post, after sharing their top 100 data research tools at the GIJN conference.
The list includes using tools like Tor and Disconnect.me to prevent others from tracing your browsing history, finding specialised databases for research and starting to read a report or article from the footnotes rather than the headline, to avoid any bias from the author.
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