Investigating Modern Threats: A Journalist's Guide to Digital Age Investigations
Enable journalists to recognize, prepare for, and strategically respond to institutional pressures while maintaining journalistic integrity and turning challenges into opportunities for greater public impact.
Learning outcomes
- Strategic communication techniques that turn institutional pressure into amplification opportunities for your reporting
- Why attacks often signal journalistic success and how to leverage that validation for greater public impact
- Crisis response protocols that can be implemented immediately in any newsroom environment
- Real-world case studies showing how transparency and strategic communication can neutralize most attacks
- What you can do to decrease the Influence of cognitive bias
- Security-enhancing tools can be applied right away in any newsroom setting
Investigating Modern Threats: A Journalist's Guide to Digital Age Investigations
The course aims to equip investigative journalists and researchers with practical skills and methodologies to uncover, structure, and analyze evidence of sanctions evasion by Russia. Participants will learn how to apply OSINT tools, critical thinking, and structured workflows to trace hidden networks, connect fragmented data, and transform findings into impactful stories and reports that can influence policy, accountability, and public awareness.
Learning outcomes
- Where to find information about weapon components of foreign origin and how to use it in investigations.
- How to identify suppliers of the Russian Federation using free and accessible sources.
- How to turn scattered online clues into a clear, structured investigation.
- How to validate your findings and separate fact from misinformation.
- How to translate technical evidence into stories and reports that can influence policy and public opinion.
Investigating Modern Threats: A Journalist's Guide to Digital Age Investigations
This course is designed for investigative journalists, fact-checkers, digital media professionals, and civil society researchers who need practical skills to detect and document coordinated manipulation campaigns on social media platforms, particularly during election periods.
Learning outcomes
- How to find political hashtags on TikTok without getting lost in the algorithm (10 minutes on your phone)
- How to set up a free Apify account and run your first data extraction (no coding required)
- What "coordinated behavior" actually looks like in a spreadsheet (spoiler: it's often obvious)
- How to document what you find so others can verify it
- Why election authorities miss this stuff (they're looking at TV ads while campaigns happen on TikTok)
- Real examples from Romania where this method revealed massive hidden campaigns
Dobro došli na kurs Transitionsa o korištenju AI-ja za pomoć u procesima provjere činjenica i razotkrivanja dezinformacija!
U ovom 45-minutnom kursu naučit ćete:
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Osnovne principe na kojima funkcioniraju veliki jezički modeli (large language models, LLM) poput ChatGPT-a
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Mogućnosti i ograničenja korištenja LLM-ova za različite zadatke
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Trikove za oblikovanje upita za AI kako biste dobili najbolje rezultate od ChatGPT-a
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Mačine kako koristiti AI za uštedu vremena u različitim koracima procesa provjere činjenica
Kurs uključuje osam mini-lekcija, od kojih neke sadržavaju kvizove ili druge vježbe koje će vam pomoći da provjerite šta ste naučili. Tu je i dodatna lekcija u kojoj se možete upoznati s pristupom i navigacijom u ChatGPT-u, ako je potrebno.
Spremni? Krenimo!
Dobro došli na mini-kurs Transitionsa o izgradnji povjerenja s novom i teško dostupnom publikom! U ovom 30-minutnom mini-kursu ćete se upoznati s nekoliko ideja, savjeta i trikova o tome kako izvještavati u duboko podijeljenoj i nepovjerljivoj zajednici, kako izgraditi povjerenje kod svojih čitalaca, kako komunicirati s publikom i izgraditi povjerenje kod nove i teško dostupne publike koja kvalitetne medije ne koristi redovno.
Kurs vodi Zoltán Sipos, glavni urednik Átlátszó Erdélyja, istraživačkog medija koji pokriva 1.2 miliona pripadnika mađarske manjinske zajednice koja živi u Rumuniji. Ova lekcija se sastoji od kratkog videa s objašnjenjem, uputstava za izvještavanje i izgradnju povjerenja korak po korak, te interaktivnih vježbi za testiranje vaših novostečenih vještina. Do kraja ovog kursa moći ćete:
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upoznati specifične probleme s kojima se vaša publika/zajednica suočava;
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znati kako prilagoditi svoj sadržaj na način koji zadovoljava potrebe vaše zajednice;
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pronaći teme/ideje za priče koje spajaju ljude;
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steći vještine izvještavanja u zajednici koja ne vjeruje medijima;
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protumačiti povratne informacije da biste znali jeste li na pravom putu.