We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
★★★★★Read Dec 31, 2021
Bellingcat is an important and effective institution. I love what they're doing. And this book is a valuable primary document from its founder about how they got started and its early days and successes. I'm glad this record has been created.
Unfortunately the book lacks much depth of analysis of the implications of Bellingcat. Higgins is thoughtful about the novelty of what his organization does and how it might affect the world. But from his inside perspective it's a little bit of a shallow analysis. I guess it's up to outsiders to make the nuanced journalistic critique.
Goodreads readers give it 4.11★, from 5,900 ratings. I gave it 3★, −1.1, where I'm usually −0.9: I rated it like most.
Readers call it Politics, Journalism, History, Technology, Crime, True Crime, Russia, War.