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Door: Alison Killing, Senior visual investigations reporter Financial Times
It is challenging to investigate China because of its separate internet and strict controls on information, which have accelerated over the past decade. In this workshop we will look at some of the challenges of accessing Chinese information sources, such as the Chinese internet and social media platforms and then explore two rich information sources which are still easily available: satellite imagery and trade data. We will use satellite imagery to look at the network of detention camps in Xinjiang, looking at sources of imagery, practising geospatial analysis and acquiring the domain knowledge necessary to analyse what is happening with detention facilities in the region. After that, we will look at supply chain and shipping data to find goods produced with forced labour in Xinjiang and see how they are making their way to Western markets.
Alison Killing is a senior reporter on the visual investigations team, an interdisciplinary group of journalists harnessing open source techniques, computational tools and traditional reporting to break stories in visual formats. Before joining the FT, Alison worked with BuzzFeed News, the BBC and Lighthouse Reports. In 2021 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting together with two colleagues for an investigation that uncovered a secret network of prison camps in Xinjiang, China for the mass detention of Muslims. She is a licensed architect.
