Tom Brown
Visual Investigations Reporter & Fact Checker
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Brown is an investigative reporter and visual investigations specialist with nine years’ experience combining journalism, data science, and satellite analysis to expose environmental and energy-sector wrongdoing. He’s produced award-winning investigations for outlets including Bellingcat, Al Jazeera, the Guardian, Science Magazine and FRONTLINE, winning honors for climate and science reporting and contributing to major documentaries. Technically fluent in Python (Selenium, OCR, Pandas), AWS and QGIS, he builds reproducible open-source workflows for geospatial and satellite-based verification. His work spans investigations across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the U.S., with funding from prominent journalism trusts and a knack for turning complex datasets into compelling visual stories. A fluent Spanish speaker now learning German, he brings a rare mix of rigorous financial-journalism instincts and hands-on technical verification skills to investigative reporting.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, Journalism, Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, Journalism at New York UniversityEnglish Literature, Creative Writing, English Literature, Creative Writing at University of East Anglia
Spanish
Github Skills (38)
debian10
webrtc10
video-conferencing9
web-application9
jitsi9
sfu9
jitsi-meet9
scalable9
roadrunner7
spiral7
php6
cryptocurrency5
hierarchy5
trading5
jquery-plugin5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tombrown86/WorkFrame
Aug 2016 - Sep 2022
Super lightweight, simple, unintrusive PHP framework that just works
Contributions:1 review, 68 commits, 11 PRs in 6 years 2 months
phpframeworkphp-frameworkroadrunnerspiral
tombrown86/tetricube-3d
Nov 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
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