The Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) is proud to announce the second edition of the CIR Open-Source Film Awards, set up to celebrate the use of OSINV techniques in investigative journalism, to ...
Benjamin Strick
Benjamin Strick is a digital investigator with a background in law, military and technology, specialising in open source intelligence (OSINT), investigations, information warfare, data and maps.
He has applied these skills to document human rights abuses, war crimes and influence operations across the world working with international media to create multi-award-winning investigative documentaries and assist civil society. He shares his passion for open source investigations through free YouTube tutorials to democratise these skills.
Ben is the Director of Investigations at the Centre for Information Resilience and was previously an open source investigator with BBC Africa Eye, is a Bellingcat contributor and co-founder of Ocelli Project. In 2021 he was awarded Open Source Intelligence Champion of the Year for investment, commitment and contribution to the field.
Ben is known for investigating Cameroonian executions, taking down influence operations targeting human rights, working with teams to map Russia's war on Ukraine, documenting a massacre in Sudan, tracking drones in Libya, documenting destroyed villages in Myanmar, investigating arms exports, identifying deceptive networks in India, investigating human rights abuses in Myanmar and finding John McAfee.
Events IJF 2025
This presentation takes journalists, researchers and creators through the range of tools and methods available to visualise open-source investigations, demonstrating how these techniques transform dat...
This presentation takes journalists and analysts through the basic OSINT skills, including mapping and satellite imagery, geolocation, chronolocation, advanced Google search, reverse image search, soc...
The Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) is proud to announce the first edition of the CIR Open-Source Film Awards, set up to celebrate the use of OSINV techniques in investigative journalism, to ...
Documenting Ukraine’s war from afar: how to use open-source intelligence to combat propaganda and expose wrongdoing
This presentation takes journalists and analysts through the basics of open-source intelligence, and how it has been used in the setting of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine to combat propaganda, u...
Geojournalism: how to use satellite imagery to verify information and uncover new stories
This presentation takes journalists and analysts through the basics of satellite imagery, geographical data, and using imagery in storytelling to verify information and make new findings. The main fie...
Visual evidence in the newsroom: using open source in investigative journalism
Open source investigations or digital investigations have been adopted by major news outlets and investigative collectives around the world, and have seen the growth of investigative teams such as BBC...
Geojournalism: how to use satellite imagery to verify information and uncover new stories
The workshop will be a hands-on satellite imagery workshop taking journalists, researchers and analysts through the basics of free satellite imagery, and extracting data from satellite imagery in nume...
This workshop, which is partly based on content in the new Verification Handbook For Disinformation And Media Manipulation, will run through a case study involving West Papua and the busting of a prop...
Half of the world's leading exporters of arms are European Union member states. First up is Italy whose arms industry is growing, having long consolidated a place in the global top 10 of arms exporter...
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