We're overjoyed to find our work on migration, as part of a consortium effort, has won the Tom Renner Award for Outstanding Crime Reporting (Investigative Reporters and Editors) .

Investigative Reporters and Editors

2024 IRE Award winners & finalists

Awards will be presented at the 2025 IRE Conference.

Have you seen our latest video yet, looking at Gaza from the skies? We analyse satellite imagery from the region and build a 3D model of two sites to capture the scale of demolition. Watch here:

Bellingcat, along with our partners, identified several cases where drone journalists were killed or injured shortly after capturing aerial images of the destruction in Gaza. Find the video version of this investigation here:

Gathering aerial footage of Gaza is a dangerous task. Bellingcat and our partners at Forbidden Stories/ARIJ/Paper Trail Media/Die Zeit/ Der Standard/ Le Monde/RFI identified several cases where drone journalists were killed or injured shortly after capturing aerial images. Together with our publishing partners, we continue the work of these journalists to visualise the unprecedented scale of destruction through detailed 3D aerial maps and satellite imagery.

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Shot From Above: The Dangerous Work of Drone Journalists in Gaza - bellingcat

Examining the high price those documenting devastation in Gaza pay.

It’s already hard to judge whether products you buy online will be the right size or not, but what if the product doesn’t even exist? Bellingcat researcher Kolina Koltai helps you to distinguish between real and AI-generated products online. From AI-generated books, to AI generated photos of products that look very different in real life, find our guide to spotting AI-generated scam products here:

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How to Spot AI-Generated Scam Products

It's harder than before to tell what’s real and what’s fake, but if you look closely there are often tell-tale signs.

We're hiring! Bellingcat is looking for an Open Source Investigator and Trainer to join our Human Rights and Conflict Monitoring team. Read more about the role and apply here.

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Bellingcat is Hiring: Open Source Investigator and Trainer (Conflict) - bellingcat

Bellingcat is hiring an open source investigator and trainer (conflict). Find out more about the role and apply within.

The UN’s World Meteorological Organization announced today that 2024 was the hottest on record and that over the year we faced 151 unprecedented extreme weather events across the globe. We recently shared a guide into visualizing climate data to help clarify the impact of future climate hazards.

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The Story of a Storm - Part 1: Visualising Climate Data with NASA’s Giovanni Tool - bellingcat

In this guide on visualising climate, conflict, and displacement data, we’ll show you how to turn raw climate data into visualisations using NASA...

Are you a keen researcher and passionate about environment or wildlife investigations? Bellingcat is looking for wildlife and environment related investigations that use open source methods and tools. It’s not necessary to be a journalist or work at a newsroom, but your work will need to be up to internationally recognised investigative journalism standards and go through a thorough fact-checking process. Find out more, and submit your pitch here:

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Pitch Wildlife and Environmental investigations to Bellingcat - bellingcat

If your source material is online and public, and your story unearths something deeper about our planet, we'd love to hear from you.

In our latest investigation, Bellingcat identifies the former Wagner fighter and admin of an racist Telegram group behind a Russian fashion brand that sells clothing items glorifying far-right ideology and the Russian mercenary group Wagner.

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Unmasking Maskov: How Bellingcat Found a Man Outfitting Russian Neo-Nazis - bellingcat

H8Core is a Russian fashion brand that sells clothing items glorifying far-right ideology and the Russian mercenary group Wagner. Its products – ...

We’re very excited to announce we're now a charity partner of the Nationale Postcode Loterij! Their annual partner contribution will provide a very valuable source of income for us for the coming five years and will greatly benefit our research and training efforts. We are a not-for-profit and the ability to carry out our work is dependent on funders like the Dutch Postcode Lottery as well as the invaluable support of individual donors. Thank you to the postcode lottery and all its participants.