Christiaan Triebert

Christiaan Triebert is a journalist on The New York Times Visual Investigations team, combining traditional reporting with digital verification techniques (such as analyzing satellite imagery, open-source data, and audio-visual evidence) to investigate global conflicts and civilian harm. His field work has taken him to a variety of places, including Syria and Ukraine.

At The Times, he has helped uncover Russian hospital bombings in Syria, expose flawed U.S. civilian casualty assessments, reveal Iran’s downing of a civilian airliner, report on U.S. police brutality, and track unauthorized oil shipments. For these and other investigations, Triebert was a co-recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes. (And, not to be forgotten: he won the Best Speaker award during his first keynote appearance at LABScon in 2023, but never received the dollar bill with his face on it that some people said was a tradition.)

Prior to joining The Times in 2019, Triebert worked as an investigator and lead trainer at Bellingcat (instructing journalists globally on open-source research and verification) and collaborated with the watchdog group Airwars. Beyond his investigative work, Triebert has served as a visiting professor at Princeton University and has taught open-source methods at numerous universities worldwide.