I'm back from Riga, Latvia, the longtime home of the Summer School on Investigative Reporting. Each year, journalists from around Europe and elsewhere gather for workshops and talks about how to be a better investigator. I delivered four workshops and took in sessions about OSINT, investigative interviewing, getting strangers to talk to you, and dealing with massive leaks like the Panama Papers.
Among the 25 tips and tools I came home with: a bot that profiles a Telegram user's message history and every name they've ever used, a free database of more than 1,000 government registries I somehow didn't know existed, and the phrases a seasoned investigator uses to get a stranger to talk to you.
This post follows similar roundups I published after attending the Global Investigative Journalism Conference and Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference, which together offer 61 OSINT tools and tips worth reading.
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