Frontline Club on its meeting to discuss Vaughan Smith’s support for Julian...
We missed this report being published at the end of last week, but it follows a meeting of members at the Frontline Club to discuss founder Vaughan Smith’s support of Julian Assange and Smith’s...
View ArticleClay Shirky: WikiLeaks has created a new media landscape
Clay Shirky, author and professor at New York University’s interactive telecommunications programme, has contributed to the Guardian’s Comment if Free with an analysis of WikiLeaks’ effect on the media...
View ArticleMediaGuardian: Follow Julian Assange’s extradition hearing live
WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief Julian Assange is in court today to fight extradition to Sweden on charges of rape, molestation and unlawful coercion. The Guardian’s Simon Jefferies is live blogging the...
View ArticleCJR: Strange Eruptions from the WikiLeaks Saga
At the end of last week, the Columbia School of Journalism has played host to the two newspaper editors credited with breaking the first major WikiLeaks stories. The Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger and the...
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Dinner with Julian Assange
This Wednesday at 6:30pm, “people from around the world” will reportedly “commence dining” in what appears to be a fundraising initiative from under-siege whistleblowers’ site WikiLeaks. All you need...
View ArticlePolitico: Amid WikiLeaks battle, Clinton to assert US support for internet...
Hilary Clinton is due to give a speech on internet freedom later today. In the wake of Egypt’s shutting off of internet access during recent protests, and in the midst of her department’s ongoing...
View ArticleAlan Rusbridger on relationship with WikiLeaks: ‘things are quite difficult’
Last night Journalism.co.uk was at the Press Awards, where the Guardian was named Newspaper of the Year. At the ceremony the paper was praised specifically for its its coverage of the WikiLeak’s...
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WikiLeaks satire takes first prize at cartoon awards
A cartoon satirizing the 2010 WikiLeak’s story has been named the winner of the World Press Cartoon awards. WikiLeaks and Uncle Sam, created by Australian artist David Rowe, was awarded Grand Prix at...
View Article#media140 – El Pais writer Joseba Elola ‘witnessing history’ with WikiLeaks
“I’ve never lived something like that and I don’t think I will live something again like that,” – these are the words of El Pais staff writer Joseba Elola, reflecting on his work on the diplomatic...
View Article#jpod: The top news stories from Journalism.co.uk, 28 April 2011
Listen below for this week’s news round-up from Journalism.co.uk’s senior reporter Rachel McAthy and sign up to our iTunes podcast feed for future audio. This week’s jpod reports on WikiLeaks’...
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OWNI.eu publishes WikiLeaks ebook
The rush to get books in the shops in the wake of the WikiLeaks phenomenon was quite predictable. It’s a story with all the Hollywood mores, but strangely real. The films are soon to follow. So far...
View Article#wef11: Journalists must become more aggressive, says Daniel Domscheit-Berg
German journalist and co-founder of OpenLeaks Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who set up the whistleblowing platform after leaving WikiLeaks, called on journalists at the World Editors Forum in Vienna to become...
View Article#wef11: Why Der Spiegel and the Hindu used WikiLeaks as a source
In today’s session on WikiLeaks and whistleblowing at the World Editors Forum in Vienna, the panel included a number of news outlets which have chosen to publish WikiLeaks material, and some which...
View Article#jpod in depth: How some news outlets are going it alone in the world of...
In this week’s #jpod news editor Rachel McAthy looks at the issue of document leaks in light of WikiLeak’s announcement earlier this week that the “financial blockade” has forced it to temporarily...
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2012 – a year of irony for the media industry?
By Matt Buck, currently engaged as engraver to @tobiasgrubbe If… 1. Rupert Murdoch revives the News of the World, but online-only. 2. Nick Davies loses his job at the Guardian, but joins the revived...
View ArticleWikiLeaks to be subject of New York Times’ first e-book
The New York Times is to publish its first e-book on Monday, which will take a look at WikiLeak’s activities lin 2010. “Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy,” includes an introductory...
View ArticleAssange: The US cannot take down WikiLeaks
If you’re a whistleblower and you have information that’s important, we will accept it, we will defend you and we will publish it. This was the message from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in an...
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