Verifying Images of the War in Ukraine
The Times’s Visual Investigations team shares the rigorous process of confirming (or disputing) the authenticity of videos about the war in Ukraine.
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Inside Our Reporting
Visual Investigations is a new form of explanatory and accountability journalism that combines traditional reporting with more advanced digital forensics that includes collecting and analyzing cell phone videos and security camera footage, satellite pictures and other imagery, social media posts, police scanner audio, and 3-D reconstructions of crime scenes. Learn more about our reporting in the stories below.
Visual Investigations is a new form of explanatory and accountability journalism that combines traditional reporting with more advanced digital forensics that includes collecting and analyzing cell phone videos and security camera footage, satellite pictures and other imagery, social media posts, police scanner audio, and 3-D reconstructions of crime scenes. Learn more about our reporting in the stories below.
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How We Tracked Secret Oil Deliveries to North Korea
For a Visual Investigations project that looked at violations of United Nations sanctions, more than a dozen journalists examined a maze of connections. But we started with one ship.
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How Times Video Journalists Reconstructed the Timeline of Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder
Last week, The Times’s visual investigations team released a video that reconstructed the timeline of the killing of Mr. Khashoggi and the botched cover-up.
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How Times Reporters Proved Russia Bombed Syrian Hospitals
We recreated a day of airstrikes using video evidence, flight logs, witness reports and thousands of previously unheard Russian Air Force communications.
By Christiaan TriebertEvan HillMalachy BrowneWhitney HurstDmitriy Khavin and
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Police, Protests and Violence: How Times Video Experts Examine a Scene
In analyzing footage involving fatalities or accusations of brutality, the Visual Investigations unit pursues the truth, frame by frame.
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CreditBy The New York Times. Image: Brendan Gutenschwager, via Storyful Times InsiderHow The Times Analyzed the Migrant Center Airstrike
It seemed too outrageous that such a place would be bombed, but if it were true it might be a war crime. It was the middle of the night in Libya. How could we verify the claim?
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Credit Times InsiderHow Times Reporters Froze a Fatal Moment on a Protest Field in Gaza
A volunteer medic was killed by Israeli gunfire on June 1. Times reporters combined a forensic visual investigation with on-the-ground reporting to reconstruct what happened and tell her story.
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CreditYousur Al-Hlou Times InsiderSatellite Images and Shadow Analysis: How The Times Verifies Eyewitness Videos
Visual investigations based on social media posts require a mix of traditional journalistic diligence and cutting-edge internet skills.
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CreditNew Studio Understanding the timesHow We Created a Virtual Crime Scene to Investigate Syria’s Chemical Attack
A New York Times investigation found that the Syrian government dropped a chlorine bomb on this apartment in Douma, Syria, in April, killing dozens. Explore the evidence in augmented reality.
By Malachy BrowneAnjali SinghviEvan GrothjanYuliya Parshina-KottasKarthik PatanjaliMiles PeytonJon HuangBlacki MigliozziNiko KoppelLarry BuchananBenjamin WilhelmGraham RobertsMarcelle Hopkins and
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What We Learned From the Videos of Stephon Clark Being Killed by Police
Our video analysis establishes five critical moments and reveals a series of split-second decisions that resulted in the killing of a 22-year-old unarmed black man.
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A look back at our Emmy-winning audiovisual investigation into last year’s deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas.
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A look at the technology and techniques that enabled our reporters to determine that Russia and Syria had distorted details about the attack in Syria.
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VISUAL investigationsAbandoned Mansions and Facebook Photos: Reporting on the Top Officials Who Fled Syria
New York Times reporters compiled a wide array of clues to uncover what happened to Bashar al-Assad’s key enforcers after the fall of the regime.
By Haley Willis, Christiaan Triebert, Neil Collier, Devon Lum and Erika Solomon
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