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We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

by Eliot Higgins · 2 Mar 2021 · 277pp · 70,506 words

said. But at the time facts were bitterly disputed online – a pattern that followed every outrage in the Syrian civil war. Newspapers were not the first draft of history anymore; social media was. And everyone there was shouting. In parallel to my community of fact-finding obsessives were partisans who denounced any

The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans

by Simon Winchester · 16 Oct 2000 · 237pp · 77,224 words

to telephone London and be put through to a copy-taking center nearby, and dictate those two thousand hurriedly written, ill-thought-out words. The first draft of history, as teachers have been known to call journalism, can be a sketchy thing indeed. But then I found myself dictating the piece to

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara · 8 Jul 2019

. I also am indebted to the journalists in the Bay Area, Seattle, and nationally who covered the technology beat from the 1970s until today; your first drafts of history made my second draft possible. The following institutions and fellowships provided time and resources that made this book possible: the American Council of

Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market

by Nicholas Wapshott · 2 Aug 2021 · 453pp · 122,586 words

to turn up,”7 he said. While pompous journalists like to elevate the importance of their mundane trade by suggesting that they are writing “the first draft of history,” all journalism, including column writing, is ephemeral. Who wants yesterday’s papers? It suited Samuelson to pretend that he had not been pitted

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

by Sarah Frier · 13 Apr 2020 · 484pp · 114,613 words

work. Penny told me I’d be writing a book within five years of graduation. Sorry to miss the deadline! If journalism is the first rough draft of history, books build on that important work to propose a second draft. I’m grateful to all the reporters who asked questions of Instagram

Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party

by Samuel Earle · 3 May 2023 · 245pp · 88,158 words

party’s favour: not just that history is written by the victors (and the Tories are usually the victors), but also that newspapers write the first drafts of history (and most newspapers support the Tories). But no matter how many patriotic declarations and rhetorical overtures to ‘the British people’ Conservatives make, the

740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building

by Michael Gross · 18 Dec 2007 · 601pp · 193,225 words

, where Evan Hocker presides over the preserved clipping libraries of the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Journal-American. As newspapers are the first draft of history, whenever possible I have tried to confirm, correct, or clarify information gleaned from them elsewhere. Last but hardly least, I would like to

Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk

by Satyajit Das · 14 Oct 2011 · 741pp · 179,454 words

and Stephen Mihm (2010) Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance, Allen Lane, London: 3. 4. Bloomberg News (20 November 2008). 5. “First draft of history” (25 June 2009) The Economist. 6. Joseph Conrad (1995) Heart of Darkness, Wordsworth Editions, Ware: 82. 7. Justin Fox “What exactly is Nouriel

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words

war correspondents. And among the things that do happen, the positive and negative ones unfold on different time lines. The news, far from being a “first draft of history,” is closer to play-by-play sports commentary. It focuses on discrete events, generally those that took place since the last edition (in

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whether the Orlando nightclub massacre was committed out of homophobia, sympathy for ISIS, or the drive for posthumous notoriety that motivates most rampage shooters. Better first drafts of history can be gleaned from data on values and from vital statistics. The Pew Research Center has probed Americans’ opinions on race, gender, and

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Beast, Nov. 7, 2014, http://www.pollingreport.com/right.htm. 9. Source of the expression: B. Popik, “First Draft of History (Journalism),” BarryPopik.com, http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/first_draft_of_history_journalism/. 10. Frequency and nature of news: Galtung & Ruge 1965. 11. Availability heuristic: Kahneman 2011; Slovic

1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink

by Taylor Downing · 23 Apr 2018 · 400pp · 121,708 words

really happened, please come back and tell us!’ We felt it was still a blank canvas and that (to mix metaphors) we were writing a first draft of history. NATO was still a little embarrassed by the events. The CIA felt they would be accused of missing one of the most dangerous