Journalism is sometimes defined as “history chronicled in a hurry.” Former Washington Post president and publisher, Philip L. Graham, famously labeled reporting as “the first rough draft of history.”Historians have always used archival documents, including old newspapers, to understand what happened years, decades, or even centuries ago. But sometimes, it works the other way around: journalists are the ones digging into the past and disclosing previously unknown facts, events, archives, or testimony that are big enough to “rewrite history.” Or, at the very least, to cast a different light on what we think we know about an event or people.
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