This is a look at the international consortium of investigative journalistsโ€™ favorite data journalism tools:

Be aware of privacy issues and learn how to modify your own traceability.

We believe in open source, or freely available, technology and use it wherever we can.

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Eight investigative reporters share their current favorite tools and apps, for tasks ranging from social media search to locating prisoners, tracking the global supply chain, and uncovering russian military recruiters.

Spyonweb, virustotal, and spiderfoot hx (by brian perlman) tracking names and websites, verifying video, a clustering search engine.

Hunchly empowers investigative professionals with tools to securely collect, preserve, and organize online evidence.

Backgrounding people and companies.

This is paramount for your own security and privacy.

Security tools have never been more important.

Capture every web page, social media post, and source in a transparent, legally defensible way.

Arm yourself with knowledge.

Gijnโ€™s investigative toolbox, a column by gijnโ€™s alastair otter, explores selected topics:

What they are, how they work and where weโ€™ve used them before.

There is so much information that you give out without even knowing it.

The investigative reporters and editors website has a free page devoted to freedom of information resources.

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Digging for people, trawling the web and keeping yourself safe.

Kobotoolbox, reliable free field surveys:

As an investigative reporter with way too many stories i want to do, these are the tools i use to keep up with sources, stories and leads at a rapid rate. letโ€™s take a look at 10 of the best new tools for unearthing, accelerating and keeping track of investigations: