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We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
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93/100Author:
Eliot Higgins
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Date:
March 2, 2021
The story of how a college dropout pioneered a new category of reporting and galvanized citizen journalistsâworking together from their computer screens around the globeâto crack major cases at a time when fact-based journalism is under assault from authoritarian forces.
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Chronicling the dark arts of dogged internet investigation, this book is a powerful, exhortatory call to arms for citizen journalists fighting for truth in a world where authenticity has become the most elusive of commodities..
We Are Bellingcat is Higgins’s gripping account of how he reinvented reporting for the internet age.
... amazing story of the birth of a new type of journalistic investigation.
One of the creation myths of the web was the nerd in his spare bedroom who became very rich/famous/powerful simply through the talent that these new technologies could set free and amplify. One such geek – an anonymous Leicester office worker in his early thirties – was Eliot Higgins. A socially awkward computer enthusiast with an interest in the news, he discovered a simple truth: if you searched online in a slightly obsessive way you could discover information that neither the press nor the experts knew. This was, Higgins realized, more fun than playing online video games.
