The Toolbox: Digging for People, Trawling the Web and Keeping Yourself Safe - Global Investigative Journalism Network

Effective digital investigative research relies heavily on gathering small pieces of information on a person or group and combining those to build a more comprehensive picture. Being able to find things like email addresses, usernames and sites with which they have accounts helps build out a profile that can be used for further investigation. GIJN's Alastair Otter rounds up some tools worth checking out.