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A good story almost always involves an intriguing plot and skillfully drawn characters, but the way a tale is delivered can make it truly exceptional. These global thinkers are masters of storytelling forms, whether they are live-tweeting the events of war, empowering marginalized populations to report news through something as simple as a phone call, explaining the nature of the universe in the 1,000 most common words in the English language, or weaving humor into televised coverage of the world's most pressing issues. They are modern-day raconteurs, telling people what they need to know -- and often using groundbreaking platforms to do it. A few of them are: 1. Hajooj Kuka, 2. Shubhranshu Choudhary, 3. Elena Ferrante, 4. Michael Lewis, 5. Christina de Middel, 6. Roberto Trota, 7. Binyavanga Wainaina, 8. Maryam Mirzakhani, 9. John Oliver, and 10. Jennifer Eberhardt. Adapted from the source document.

A good story almost always involves an intriguing plot and skillfully drawn characters, but the way a tale is delivered can make it truly exceptional. These global thinkers are masters of storytelling forms, whether they are live-tweeting the events of war, empowering marginalized populations to report news through something as simple as a phone call, explaining the nature of the universe in the 1,000 most common words in the English language, or weaving humor into televised coverage of the world's most pressing issues. They are modern-day raconteurs, telling people what they need to know -- and often using groundbreaking platforms to do it. A few of them are: 1. Hajooj Kuka, 2. Shubhranshu Choudhary, 3. Elena Ferrante, 4. Michael Lewis, 5. Christina de Middel, 6. Roberto Trota, 7. Binyavanga Wainaina, 8. Maryam Mirzakhani, 9. John Oliver, and 10. Jennifer Eberhardt. Adapted from the source document.

In an age when "search" is a browser function that can call up more information in an instant than an ancient scholar could accumulate in a lifetime, it is easy to mistake data for knowledge. The Global Thinkers in this category put that hubris in perspective, showing us novel ways of understanding the world and our place in it. They have traveled to jungles and deserts, near-Earth orbit and the Martian surface. With reporting that moved us, photography that shook our view of conflict, and research that exposed the very fabric of physical existence, they have helped us understand what it means to be human. Adapted from the source document.

Abstract
Early modern local chronicles are a largely neglected, yet stable genre of texts that can be used for comparative research over time and space. The NWO-funded research project Chronicling Novelty (2018–24) investigated the reception of new media and new knowledge among early modern chroniclers in the Low Countries. For this purpose, we created a digitized corpus of 204 Dutch-language chronicles from the period 1500–1850. This article presents the methodological decisions made in creating this corpus and their implications for its representativeness. The second part examines the social, religious and political profile of the chroniclers: who wrote chronicles and what does this reveal about chronicling as a cultural and social practice? Particularly interesting in this respect is how the chroniclers' strong involvement in local public affairs authorized their chronicling practices, and vice versa.