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NYT doesn’t remember call from Bradley Manning

Andrew Beaujon — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:41:41 +0000

New York | The Huffington Post | National Journal | Guardian
In his plea Thursday, U.S. PFC Bradley Manning said he’d tried to leak diplomatic cables to three news outlets, but he couldn’t get through to any of them.… Read more

WikiLeaks says it created fake Bill Keller column

Andrew Beaujon — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:22:04 +0000

Gizmodo | The Guardian | VentureBeat | All Things D
Imagine this sentence getting past a New York Times copy editor: “The ACLU has shown through its government FOIA requests of WikiLeaks published cables, pretending secrets are secret after they … Read more

AP says it’s reviewing WikiLeaks’ emails on Syria, but that doesn’t make them collaborators

Steve Myers — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:20:18 +0000

AP says it’s reviewing WikiLeaks’ emails on Syria, but that doesn’t make them collaborators (Michael Calderone/The Huffington Post)… Read more

Legal threat shows DocumentCloud’s ‘tricky position’ when hosting sensitive documents

Steve Myers — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:03:37 +0000

Nieman Journalism Lab
DocumentCloud has removed 14,400 leaked emails related to a company with ties to News Corp. after the company, NDS, objected because they contain trade secrets and confidential information. The Australian Financial Review used the emails to report … Read more

WikiLeaks presses on, with fewer friends in media

Steve Myers — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:01:25 +0000

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, … Read more

Russian state-run network will air Julian Assange’s TV show

Steve Myers — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:07:41 +0000

State-run Russia Today to air Julian Assange’s new TV show… Read more

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to host television show

Steve Myers — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:16:57 +0000

WikiLeaks describes why Julian Assange will host a new television show about “the world tomorrow”:

“WikiLeaks, as the world’s boldest publisher, has been at the front line of this global movement for understanding and change. Its founder, Julian Assange, as … Read more

Assange: ‘Thank God I’m not Bill Keller’s type of journalist’

Steve Myers — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:48:43 +0000

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, … Read more

Honest Appalachia, new whistleblower site, solicits leaks for 7-state region

Steve Myers — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:06:48 +0000

Associated Press | Honest Appalachia
The AP’s Vicki Smith writes that Honest Appalachia co-founder Jim Tobias and his partners decided to focus on seven states — West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina — “because of its relatively … Read more

Assange: Best journalism on WikiLeaks cables hasn’t come from U.S., Europe

Steve Myers — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:39:38 +0000

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 … Read more