Last year I was going through some old family photos, and decided to geolocate one of them on a whim — the birth place of my great-grandfather in Scanno, Italy. I found way more than I expected. My journey down the rabbit hole appears this week w/ .
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Last year I was going through some old family photos, and decided to geolocate one of them on a whim — the birth place of my great-grandfather in Scanno, Italy. I found way more than I expected. My journey down the rabbit hole appears this week w/ .
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My day job is with Visual Investigations team which uses some of the same digital sleuthing techniques featured in this story to hold the powerful to account. Follow our work here:
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Congrats to the amazing designers who were nominated for an ASME "Best Digital Design" award for our Scanno story:
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"A satellite image captured on Jan. 24 shows ~170 burial plots in an area of the cemetery known to hold Wagner fighters, a number that has increased to nearly seven times that seen on satellite imagery just two months ago." By . 📸 . nytimes.com/2023/01/24/wor
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.@'s day job is on The Times’ Visual Investigations unit, which usually involves things like analyzing footage of the Capitol Riots. But could he use these same skills to find his great-grandfather’s house in a tiny village in Italy?
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I hope Day of Rage "will serve as a core historical documenting of what transpired — and how. We needed to establish the basic truths of that day before fuller accounting could truly begin."
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This week our Visual Investigations team published its longest piece ever: an in-depth account of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol - the capstone to a large body of work on 1/6 by this team. I want to tell you a little more about this as a whole.
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Missed one byline credit: reported on the Jan. 6 iconography story too. Best person for the job on that one.
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UPDATE: Excited to share that our doc has been shortlisted for a documentary short #Oscars nomination.
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Well done to the @DayofRage team, on the #Oscars shortlist for documentary short. It's a rare film to come from newsroom reporting and specifically the Visual Investigations team (listed below)
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New reporting from & finds that last month's drone strike on the U.S.-backed Al Tanf base was Iranian retaliation for Israeli airstrikes in Syria.
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In 2019, explored the complicated history and significance of the Al Tanf base — and why it's so difficult for the U.S. to give it up.
