Journalists working in verification or online investigations may find themselves needing to find information on a particular person with only an email address to go on.
This article by Amit Agarwal on tech site Digital Inspiration highlights four ways to do a reverse email search using an IP address and social networks as well as using a search service such as Pipl.
Using these techniques, journalists can reveal details including location, images and any social networks associated with that person.
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