For just the gist, see our one-page tipsheet!Īlso see GIJC19 presentation, with exercises, by Jelter Meers, a researcher and reporter at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and Mapping the Secret Skies: Lessons Learned From Flight Data (2020) by Emmanuel Freudenthal of OCCRP.īasics of Tracking (and the Disruptive New Kid on the Block) If you just need a few quick tips, check out GIJN’s planespotting tipsheet. What about government and military aircraft?.Reporting with flight data: Doing data analysis and finding out who’s on board the plane.The basics: How tracking works and why one new disruptive technology is democratizing the information.Recent years have been golden ones for reporters tracking airplanes. watched the movements of corporate executives.followed the travels of government officials.exposed rendition flights by the Turkish government.questioned the use of private planes - by Hungary’s president, among others īe sure to check out Icarus Flights, a powerful new suite of flight tracking tools.Virtually observed a Russian oligarch’s jet making suspicious trips to the Middle East and Africa.Aided by new tracking technologies, journalists have: Tracking planes is an increasingly valuable tool in the arsenal of investigators. Global Investigative Journalism Network. Global Investigative Journalism Network.

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