Volha Kananovich

From Grassroots Sleuthing to Global Uptake: Epistemic Legitimation of Open-Source Investigations in Journalism Through Mediazona’s War Casualty Project in Russia’s War on Ukraine

This study examines how open-source investigation (OSINV) is legitimized within journalism through an analysis of a casualty-counting project by Mediazona, an exiled independent Russian newsroom documenting Russian military deaths in Ukraine. Drawing on Mediazona’s public-facing...