THE ROLE OF DIGITAL APPLICATIONS IN SUPPORTING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INVESTIGATIONS-ANALYTICAL STUDY OF CAPITAL TRACKING TOPICS ON OCCRP SITE

Abstract

The problem of research is summarized by the ambiguity of identifying the tools that investigative journalists need to help gather, disaggregate, analyze, and verify the information and thus process it and disseminate it in a simplified and understandable manner to the public. The researcher also aims to demonstrate the most important tools and identify the most important sites that open the windows of in-depth search for information on capital tracking, and find out what applications are available that can help journalists represent data figures and diagnose the most prominent types of data that need to be collected in capital tracking investigations. This research is classified as descriptive research that adopts content analysis as a key tool in data collection. The sample included 49 investigations published on the organization's website. The researcher came up with a set of findings. The main findings were that 53.6% of the research sample investigations were in the category of in-depth investigations overcoming the category of research. (Investigative investigation) which came in second with 46.3% and the liaison officer distributed his interests between tracking money, corruption, tax evasion, organized crime, proscribed trade, and abuse of power in close proportions, Finally, the creator of the communication content deliberately diversified the use of images in investigations between graphically modified images, satellite images, 3D Google Maps, aerial images, and fourth-ranked gifs by 4.5 percent and reached several conclusions, including that computer techniques offer greater opportunities to present journalistic content to achieve the basic objective of the communication process of persuasion, Anecdotal narratives are still inherent in investigative journalism despite the novelty of programs and applications for presenting investigative journalistic content. The investigation requires more effort and time than the in-depth investigation, so its productivity rate is lower than others. The research included three chapters, 12 tables, and one supplement.