Reade Levinson is a visual investigations reporter for Reuters, based in London. She was part of a team that was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for a series that revealed secrets behind the Nigerian military’s long campaign to crush the nation’s Islamist insurgency. She has also written about the weapons flow into Sudan, a massacre in Burkina Faso, stolen Ukrainian grain, the wealth of Burmese generals and the international trade in human body parts. Previously, she reported on U.S. immigration and policing from New York.
Her work with her Reuters colleagues has received several awards, including a Selden Ring Award, a Gerald Loeb Award, a Scripps Howard Award and an Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, among others.
Summer School of Investigative Reporting 2025 Sessions
Masterclass in Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT): Part 1
Whether you’re a complete beginner, or looking to strengthen your investigative skills, these two sessions are designed to teach essential OSINT tools and techniques to advance your research and reporting. In the first session, you will learn advanced search techniques, geolocation and image analysis, and how to leverage different satellite imagery providers to track and investigate events.
Masterclass in Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT): Part 2
On the second day, we’ll go over plane and ship tracking, identifying disinformation, and dive deeper into more advanced satellite imagery analysis and geolocation. The goal is that by the end of both sessions, you will feel comfortable using open-source skills regularly in your research and reporting to verify information and deepen your investigations.