“In the world today, everyone’s walking around with a tracking device that can take pictures and upload them to the internet - your mobile phone. There’s a natural impulse to record your experience (…) When you have enough of it, you can recreate incredibly complex events (…) in much more granular detail than if you, say, simply talk to witnesses.” — Nick Waters, former British Army officer and Bellingcat senior investigator
How can we leverage technology to do a better job reporting the news? My guest today is Nick Waters, with the investigative reporting group, Bellingcat. The organization started on crowdsourced funding in 2014, and it has grown now to a staff of 20 professionals who comb through digital data and use it to break big news stories. Bellingcat’s reporting linked the 2014 crash of the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine to a Russian missile. More recently, the group investigated the storming of the U.S. Capitol, helping to preserve user-generated photos and videos.
“In the world today, everyone’s walking around with a tracking device that can take pictures and upload them to the internet - your mobile phone. There’s a natural impulse to record your experience (…) When you have enough of it, you can recreate incredibly complex events (…) in much more granular detail than if you, say, simply talk to witnesses.” — Nick Waters, former British Army officer and Bellingcat senior investigator
How can we leverage technology to do a better job reporting the news? My guest today is Nick Waters, with the investigative reporting group, Bellingcat. The organization started on crowdsourced funding in 2014, and it has grown now to a staff of 20 professionals who comb through digital data and use it to break big news stories. Bellingcat’s reporting linked the 2014 crash of the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine to a Russian missile. More recently, the group investigated the storming of the U.S. Capitol, helping to preserve user-generated photos and videos.