TY - BOOK AU - Higgins,Eliot TI - We are Bellingcat: global crime, online sleuths, and the bold future of news SN - 9781635577303 (hardcover) AV - PN 4784 H636w 2021 U1 - 070.43 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Publishing KW - Bellingcat (Organization) KW - Online journalism KW - Periodismo en línea KW - Intelligence service KW - Great Britain KW - Open source intelligence KW - Electronic intelligence KW - Private investigators KW - Vigilancia electrónica KW - Investigadores privados KW - Citizen journalism KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Periodismo ciudadano KW - Gran Bretaña KW - Inteligencia de fuentes abiertas KW - Journalisme participatif KW - Journalisme en ligne KW - Renseignements de sources ouvertes KW - Renseignement électronique KW - Détectives KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Histoire KW - 21e siècle KW - detectives KW - aat KW - fast KW - Online news KW - lcgft N1 - Originally published in Great Britain in 2021 as We are Bellingcat : an intelligence agency for the people; Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and index; Introduction --; Revolution on a laptop --; Becoming Bellingcat --; Firewall of facts --; Mice catch cat --; Next steps N2 - "In 2018, Russian exile Sergei Skripal and his daughter were nearly killed in an audacious poisoning attempt in Salisbury, England. Soon, the identity of one of the suspects was revealed: he was a Russian spy. This huge investigative coup wasn't pulled off by an intelligence agency or a traditional news outlet. Instead, the scoop came from Bellingcat, the open-source investigative team that is redefining the way we think about news, politics, and the digital future. We Are Bellingcat tells the inspiring story of how a college dropout pioneered a new category of reporting and galvanized citizen journalists-working together from their computer screens around the globe-to crack major cases, at a time when fact-based journalism is under assault from authoritarian forces. Founder Eliot Higgins introduces readers to the tools Bellingcat investigators use, tools available to anyone, from software that helps you pinpoint the location of an image, to an app that can nail down the time that photo was taken. This book digs deep into some of Bellingcat's most important investigations-the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine, Assad's use of chemical weapons in Syria, the identities of alt-right protestors in Charlottesville-with the drama and gripping detail of a spy novel"--Publisher's description ER -