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What does courage look like when telling the truth comes with real consequences? @proofnews.bsky.social founder @juliaangwin.com has spent her career investigating powerful institutions. Now she's turned her lens onto standing up to authoritarian regimes and speaking truth to power.

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Angwin interviewed 100-plus people from all over the world with her co-writer policy expert Ami Fields-Meyer for their new book 'On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear,' extracting lessons from dissidents that were consistent no matter their geographical or cultural boundaries.

bookshop.orgOn Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of FearA New York Times Bestseller"INVALUABLE. A CLASSIC OF OUR TIME. Everybody should read it." —RACHEL MADDOWA deeply reported manual about how anyone can defy an authoritarian – based on original intervie...
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For DEPTH PECEPTION, @parkermolloy.com speaks with Angwin about ditching objectivity for transparency, why journalists shouldn’t bother asking whether they’re allowed to be dissidents, and more. Read now: depthperception.longlead.com/p/julia-angw...

depthperception.longlead.com“We were already dissidents.” Julia Angwin on courage, media capture, and the fiction of objectivityThe “Proof News” founder spent her career doing the math on powerful institutions. Her new book is a manual for standing up to the most powerful one of all.