Manisha Ganguly

While living in Kolkata, Ganguly was the founder and editor of feminist counterculture webzine, Eyezine.[9] The website reported on human rights abuses in Kashmir, and sexual assault by riot police in West Bengal, which resulted in 100,000 readers in one month for the website.[10]

For the BBC, her investigative documentaries exposed double-tap attacks by Russian planes in Syria and war crimes by Turkish-backed forces in the Syrian civil war,[11][12] foreign meddling, violations of the UN arms embargo, desecration of the bodies of prisoners of war and civilians in Libya,[13][14] use of cluster munitions in Ukraine,[15] human trafficking in the Middle East,[8][16] uncovered the training of the killers of journalist Jamal Khashoggi[8], discovered China's most famous MeToo activist who had been missing[17]. In 2022, Ganguly's investigation documented the torture of Russian anti-war prisoners in a Moscow police station and the identities of the officers[18], which resulted in the officers being sanctioned by the EU[19].

Ganguly was interviewed about her investigative reporting on Ukraine by Bellingcat[20], El Mundo,[21] ARTE,[22] and L'Orient Le Jour.[23]

She holds a PhD titled "Future of Investigative Journalism: The Age of Automation, A.I. & Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)" from the University of Westminster.[24][25] It is the first PhD in OSINT mapping the impact on investigative journalism[26]. Ganguly's research also focussed on incidences of PTSD and the mental health impact of looking at graphic violence in OSINT investigations in war zones. She is a vocal proponent of women's representation and diversity in the OSINT space and investigative journalism[27].

In 2023, following the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk, Ganguly expressed concern for Twitter becoming "an inhospitable platform for the OSINT community".[28]

Ganguly investigated Team Jorge, a team of Israeli contractors claiming to have meddled in more 30 elections worldwide and Aims, their software to launch bot armies[29][30][31] with the Guardian and Forbidden Stories. It resulted in the suspension of French broadcaster Rachid M'Barki of BFMTV[32].

She investigated NTC-Vulkan, which develops a Russian disinformation network and cyberweapons used by the Russian military and intelligence agencies as a part of the Vulkan Files[33].