PositiveThe Irish Times (IRE)We Are Bellingcat is a thrilling, if demanding, read ... The argument that without mainstream media coverage of unfolding news, Bellingcat would lack the source material to launch investigations is spurious. They acknowledge their debts. Could such forensic gaze be trained on troll factories and shadowy figures in Ireland? Faith in investigative journalism is key. This is We Are Bellingcat’s story.
Ronan Farrow
RaveThe Irish Times (IRELAND)Catch and Kill looks like a novel by Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett with its 1940s movie-style garish graphic cover. It reads like one too ... As with those novels, you read it at a sitting. Because, like all great investigative reporters, he pulls plot and character into one pulse-quickening narrative ... It was the women’s stories which moved Farrow. And which move us. The women’s terror at breaking their silence is the most shocking part of it. This is what purges souls with pity and with terror.
Ashton Applewhite
MixedThe Irish Times[Applewhite\'s] contention that different forms of activism reinforce and compound each other in the same way that different forms of oppression do, is compelling ... This is a manifesto and, like all manifestos, is prescriptive, and over optimistic. The most famous manifesto of all, despite its hope and lyricism, proved delusional.
