Eliot Higgins
Autor von We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
Über den Autor
Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat, an international collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists using open-source and social media investigation to probe some of the world's most pressing stories. Higgins also sits on the technical advisory board of the International mehr anzeigen Criminal Court in The Hague. @EliotHiggins weniger anzeigen
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- Andere Namen
- Brown Moses (pseudonym)
- Geburtstag
- 1979-01
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
- Ausbildung
- Southampton Institute of Higher Education
- Berufe
- investigative journalist
website founder
blogger - Organisationen
- Bellingcat
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Foreign Policy : Global Thinkers (2019)
- Agent
- Natasha Fairweather
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This account of the origins and growth of Bellingcat is fascinating. One of the reviewer’s comments splashed across the cover of the book says that it ‘reads like a thriller’, and that is no exaggeration.
Belllingcat was founded by Eliot Higgins. Working in a job that did not engage him fully, he started following news stories and in particular YouTube clips about events in the Syrian Civil War. Higgins found that by dextrous use of applications such as Google Earth, he could pinpoint the locations of some of the clips that were being published. From these he was able to validate or challenge many of the claims being made in social media. He expanded his findings into a blog, which in turn put him in contact with other fact checkers, and developed a network of likeminded associates who could review and geolocate the site of apparent atrocities. From this start, the work of Bellingcat developed into an independent fact checking agency, always making a point of using open-source material to ensure transparency.
Higgins is frank and modest about the manner in which he worked, which adds to the charm of the story. His work has not always been popular, and he has received many threats, which he takes as validation of the importance of his work, and the veracity of his reporting. There is always a risk that such a work might descend into self-justification or self-righteousness, but Higgins avoids such traps. This account is a fine exemplar of the transparency and clarity that Bellingcat espouse.… (mehr)