Lunch and group discussion with Aric Toler, analyst at Bellingcat

Join the UNC School of Media and Journalism for lunch and a small group discussion with Bellingcat analyst Aric Toler.

Bellingcat is an international collective of open-source investigative journalists. Toler has written with Bellingcat since 2015 and currently leads the Eurasia/Eastern Europe team focusing on verification of Russian and Ukrainian media, the war in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s linkages to the American/European far-right movements. Along with his research into topics in the former Soviet Union, he organizes and leads Bellingcat’s Russian-language workshops for journalists and researchers. 

Erinn Whitaker, senior researcher, and writer at the UNC School of Media and Journalism will moderate the discussion.