Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 28, 2013
3:41 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
July 30, 2012
8:22 am
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Steve Myers
Apr. 3, 2012
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Feb. 27, 2012
1:01 pm
WikiLeaks presses on, with fewer friends in media
“Even though the media companies now supporting WikiLeaks are smaller than previous allies, the evidently cash-strapped organization is still able to do its work … It’s unclear if with its latest release, WikiLeaks can return to relevance. But they still have access to interesting data that journalists are hungry to understand, so that’s a start.”
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Adam Clark Estes, Atlantic Wire
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Steve Myers
Jan. 18, 2012
3:48 pm
Rolling Stone
Julian Assange tells Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings that Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers, has been one of his strongest supporters. He doesn't have kind words for Bill Keller, former executive editor of The New York Times, which collaborated with WikiLeaks (for a time) to report on "
The War Logs." Keller described WikiLeaks as a source, not a collaborator,
in a lengthy New York Times Magazine piece last year.
Keller was trying to save his own skin from the espionage investigation in two ways. First, on a legal technicality, by claiming that there was no collaboration, only a passive relationship between journalist and source. And second, by distancing themselves from us by attacking me personally, using all the standard tabloid character-assassination attacks. Many journalists at the Times have approached me to say how embarrassed they were at the lowering of the tone by doing that. Keller also came out and said how pleased the White House was with them that they had not run WikiLeaks material the White House had asked them not to. It is one thing to do that, and it's another thing to proudly proclaim it. Why did Keller feel the need to tell the world how pleased the White House was with him? For the same reason he felt the need to describe how dirty my socks were. It is not to convey the facts – rather, it is to convey a political alignment. You heard this explicitly: Keller said, "Julian Assange may or may not be a journalist, but he's not my kind of journalist." My immediate reaction is, "Thank God I'm not Bill Keller's type of journalist."
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Steve Myers
Jan. 10, 2012
11:06 am
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Steve Myers
Nov. 28, 2011
3:39 pm
Journalism.co.uk
The day after WikiLeaks received
an Australian journalism award and a year after it released U.S. diplomatic cables, Julian Assange told a journalism conference in Hong Kong that journalists in countries such as India, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Kenya have done the best reporting with the cables. "Those journalists are more courageous, hard working and often younger than ones in older democracies. And for them the stakes are higher and therefore journalism has more ability to impact the power structures within the country." Rachel McAthy reports that Assange also contended that most journalists aim "to crawl up the ladder of power to become associated with power." ||
Related: WikiLeaks delays launch of new anonymous submission system (Financial Times)
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