We Are Bellingcat

We Are Bellingcat is Eliot Higgins's account of founding and building Bellingcat, the investigative journalism website that has become known for using open-source intelligence to solve international crimes and expose state-sponsored operations. Since its launch in 2014, Bellingcat has tracked everything from the MH17 aircraft downing over Ukraine to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, often arriving at conclusions before official state investigations.

Higgins traces the organization's evolution from a one-man operation documenting the Syrian civil war using YouTube videos and social media to a team of international journalists challenging governments with verifiable evidence. The book details both the investigative breakthroughs and the personal toll of the work - threats, doxxing attempts, and the psychological weight of documenting atrocities. Higgins writes candidly about how crowdsourced open-source methods can compete with state intelligence agencies, and why transparency in methodology matters as much as the findings themselves.

The narrative reveals the human side of digital investigation: the obsessive deep dives into metadata, the frustration of being ignored by mainstream media, and the vindication when major outlets eventually pick up their work. This is both a founding story and a manual for how a small group of determined people can hold power accountable in the internet age.

• Published 2021
• Memoir and investigative journalism history
• Details Bellingcat's most significant cases and methods
• Written by Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins

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