INDIEGRAF WEBINARS
Digital Investigation Techniques Every Journalist Should Know
Missed the live session? Watch it on demand!
This on-demand session walks you through essential tools and techniques to help you verify content, trace online sources, and strengthen your reporting.
Led by Craig Silverman — award-winning journalist and author, and one of the world’s leading experts on online disinformation, fake news, and digital investigations — this session is designed for journalists and publishers who want practical tools they can use right away.
You’ll learn how to verify and trace images and videos, analyze social media accounts and pages, and investigate phone numbers and email addresses.
About the event
This session will give you a solid foundation in the techniques every journalist should have in their toolkit. The training covers:
✅ New and updated tools for digital investigations
✅ Investigating and verifying images and video to determine accuracy, origins, and other details
✅ Social media account and platform research strategies to analyze profiles, channels, pages, and more
✅ How to investigate phone numbers and email addresses
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Meet the speaker
Craig Silverman is an award-winning journalist and author, recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on online disinformation, digital investigations, and media manipulation.
He is the co-founder of Indicator, a newsletter and website dedicated to exposing digital deception and equipping professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to investigate it. He also teaches and provides OSINT and digital investigative training to a wide range of newsrooms and institutions.
Previously, Craig worked as a national reporter for ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative newsroom, and served as the media editor of BuzzFeed News, among other roles.
He has collaborated with organizations such as the Global Investigative Journalism Network, International Center for Journalists, and European Journalism Center. He enjoys working alongside journalists, newsrooms, and news literacy organizations worldwide.
Over the years, Craig has helped launch an online news organization (OpenFile), created an award-winning blog and media brand (Regret the Error), developed an innovative research project and product prototype (Emergent), authored two non-fiction books, and contributed as a columnist, contributor, and editor for various websites, newspapers, and magazines in the U.S. and Canada.
