Summary of Nicole Perlroth's This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

Excerpt From Summary of Nicole Perlroth's This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends



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The author, a reporter for the New York Times, was assigned to cover cybersecurity in 2013. She was hired despite not knowing anything about it, and three years later, she was still covering it.



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The New York Times was going to publish two articles based on the leaks from Edward Snowden, a contractor for the National Security Agency. The first was a collaboration with the Guardian, and the second with ProPublica.