Company directors’ pay regularly provides material for stories — and this front page story by The Guardian’s Robert Booth was such a masterclass in the genre (as well as other open source intelligence techniques) that I decided to reverse-engineer it for a Twitter thread.

I’ve embedded the thread below, or you can read it on Threadreader here.

🧵 It’s time for another roller-coaster thread digging into how one journalist has used company accounts* to get a great story.
This time it's a front page story by @Robert_Booth https://t.co/yFi4qH5IBJ
*Featuring: other useful open sources

— Paul Bradshaw (@paulbradshaw) January 23, 2023

Using company accounts in journalism

You can find other posts about using company accounts at the following links:

• VIDEO PLAYLIST: Finding stories in company accounts
• Here’s a story about a celebrity fashion charity which provides some useful tips and tricks for journalists using company accounts
• Here’s how one journalist used all sorts of company account techniques to tell a story about a social media platform for sex workers
• Teaching journalists how to find stories in company accounts: the story treasure hunt
• Here are 9 ways to find stories in company accounts (and only three of them involve numbers)