The Anatomy of a Visual Investigation

Elizabeth Eagen

Senior Program Officer, Information Program at Open Society Foundations | Facilitator

Elizabeth Eagen is a Program Officer at the Open Society Foundations' Information Program, where she runs the Emerging Technology for Evidence and Advocacy portfolio. The initiative looks at the use of emergent technologies in unlocking policy opportunities; knowledge management and its role in supporting organizational stability and creating multi-use data; and the use of data visualization tools, data science, statistics, and new media tactics by civil society and policymakers.

Brad Samuels

Director, SITU Research | Organizer

NYPD's Supression of peaceful protest in The Bronx: A video reconstruction analyzing police tactics against peaceful protesters in the Bronx

UNITAD Investigation A video and evidentiary platform documenting the evidence of crimes committed by ISIL against the Yazidi community in Iraq

Adriano Belisário

Associated Researcher, MediaLab UFRJ

Expulsions (English) This interactive report by Autonoma and Medialab.UFRJ shows the social, environmental and archaeological impacts of mega-mining projects in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest.

Territórios de Exceção (Exception Territories - Portuguese): Investigation about the use of helicopters as shooting platforms by the police in Rio de Janeiro. It is the result of a three years investigation made by MediaLab.UFRJ and Autonoma.

Sarah Cahlan

Visual Forensics Video Reporter, The Washington Post

Lafayette Reconstruction: What video and other records show about the clearing of protesters outside the White House

Jan 6 / 41 minutes of fear: Using facial recognition, exclusive, unpublished video and interviews with lawmakers, The Post reconstructed the January 6 chaos inside the seat of government.

Christoph Koettl

Senior Video Journalist, Visual Investigations, The New York Times

Who Made Your Mask?: This visual investigation reveals that several Chinese companies are using Uighur labor from a contentious government program to produce P.P.E. during the pandemic. We track some of that equipment to the U.S. and around the world.

Philadelphia Police Violated Their Own Guidelines, Here's How: On June 1, SWAT teams turned a protest march in Philadelphia into chaos. We went to the site, interviewed witnesses and analyzed dozens of videos to reconstruct what happened.

Lucas Waldron

Visual Investigations Producer, ProPublica

Deadly Restraint: A visual investigation into the death of Phillip Garcia at a jail in Riverside County, based on over 17 hours of surveillance video obtained via the California Public Records Act.

Kawasaki Trawick/NYPD Shooting Investigation A visual investigation examining the moments before Kawaski Trawick was shot in his home by an NYPD officer in 2019.