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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged WikiLeaks

1. December 15, 2010 01:13 PM

   Australian Press Unites For Assange

   Letter to PM could prove persuasive

   By Joel Meares

   As his lawyer alleges a grand jury in Virginia is working up charges to file against him, Julian Assange has found a powerful ally—or, at least, defender—in his homeland: the press. On the same day that nineteen faculty members from the Columbia Journalism School signed and sent a letter to President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder warning that prosecuting...

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2. October 25, 2010 10:42 AM

   Times’s Act Two Profile of Assange

   A revealing follow-up to The New Yorker

   By Joel Meares

   Raffi Khatchadourian’s profile of Julian Assange for The New Yorker back in June—before the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs dumps—is still the definitive read on the WikiLeaks founder. And it may always be. Since releasing the Iraq War Logs at 5 p.m. Friday, EST, Assange has been back in the headlines and back on TV screens. At a press conference...

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3. November 30, 2010 12:50 PM

   Are You Angry about WikiLeaks?

   If so, why? If not, why not?

   By The Editors

   From Sarah Palin to the Times readers who grilled Bill Keller over that paper’s right to publish information contained in 250,000 diplomatic cables leaked this Sunday, there has been plenty of outrage over the latest WikiLeaks dump. In a Q&A with Keller, Jill Abramson, and Andrew W. Lehrer, reader Brian Chrisman summed up the concern: It is not up to...

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4. February 11, 2011 09:42 PM

   Audit Notes: HBGary Federal, Bank CEOs Stock Sales, Adam Gopnik

   By Ryan Chittum

   This is one of the more disturbing stories I've read in a while. So far, no one in the mainstream press has touched it with the exception of Forbes's Andy Greenberg. That needs to change quickly. ThinkProgress reports that private security companies solicited by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's law firm proposed a ratfuck operation to discredit political opponents of...

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5. November 29, 2010 07:19 PM

   Audit Notes: Up Next For Wikileaks: The Banks, Forbes, Gaming Google

   By Ryan Chittum

   Julian Assange is Forbes's cover boy this week. No surprise there. He just turned the diplomatic community on its head with a mass release of U.S. secrets. But it's not your typical man-in-the-news profile. Andy Greenberg sits down with Assange and gets a big scoop: That Wikileaks in several weeks will release a big email dump from a major U.S....

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6. February 9, 2011 07:02 PM

   Bloomberg and BusinessWeek’s Problematic WikiLeaks Story

   Red flags aflutter as the news outfit runs with seriously questionable evidence

   By Ryan Chittum

   How many red flags can we count in this Bloomberg BusinessWeek piece on WikiLeaks? First there's the headline: Is Wikileaks Hacking For Secrets? I, like my colleague Lauren Kirchner, have a real problem with question headlines, which seem to have proliferated in recent years. On the bright side, they're good leads for critics like us: It's a sure sign that...

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7. January 7, 2011 11:51 AM

   Cable Access

   Once again: WikiLeaks did not publicly release 250,000 diplomatic cables

   By Craig Silverman

   [Update: Craig Silverman elaborates on this column in a new CJR podcast, which you can listen to elsewhere on CJR.org here, or via iTunes here.] Time for a pop quiz: How many of the leaked diplomatic cables in WikiLeaks’s possession has the organization released publicly? A) Roughly 2,000 B) Roughly 250,000 C) None. They’ve all been released by media outlets....

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8. February 9, 2011 03:35 PM

   Did Assange Play Lawyer?

   WikiLeaks insider suggests a legal adviser never existed

   By Clint Hendler

   A recently published book excerpt suggests that “Jay Lim,” an occasional WikiLeaks spokesperson often identified as its legal advisor, was merely an online pseudonym of Julian Assange. The excerpts, posted on cryptome.org, are (naturally) leaked scans of an early copy of WikiLeaks’s defector Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s upcoming book. Domscheit-Berg, before his break with the organization, had long operated under the pseudonym...

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9. October 25, 2010 11:18 AM

   Greenwald Gets It on WikiLeaks Coverage

   By Joel Meares

   Salon media critic Glenn Greenwald hammers at a point we mentioned in our first read of the WikiLeaks coverage on Friday afternoon. That is, that as with the Afghanistan dump, there was an obvious disparity between the way that the Times reported out and framed its Iraq War Logs package and the way that Der Spiegel, Le Monde, and particularly...

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10. January 26, 2012 04:12 PM

    Julian Assange’s New Platform: RT

    By Ann Cooper

    So here’s a partnership we might have seen coming: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will host a TV talk show that debuts in March on RT, the Kremlin-funded, English-language twenty-four-hour news channel. The Kremlin created Russia Today (later shortened to just RT) in 2005, to counter what it believes is relentlessly negative western media coverage of Russia. How does RT try...

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11. January 27, 2011 12:16 PM

    Keller’s WikiLeaks Think Piece

    Assange bad; leaks good

    By Joel Meares

    Times executive editor Bill Keller has a 7,900-plus word piece in Sunday’s magazine called “Dealing with Assange and the Secrets He Spilled,” in which he takes us behind the scenes of negotiations with WikiLeaks and the Times’s WikiLeaks reporting, describes interactions with Julian Assange, and answers his critics—both those who say the Times ran soft coverage and those who say...

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12. January 17, 2011 12:17 PM

    Miss America’s WikiThoughts

    By Joel Meares

    You have read our own Clint Hendler on “The WikiLeaks Equation.” The Nation’s Greg Mitchell has been blogging about it for, oh, who knows now how many days now—check his Twitter. And Jay Rosen and Glenn Greenwald have their thoughts. What’s missing from that assortment? Miss America of course. When SFC Chad Momerak asked Miss Nebraska Teresa Scanlan—eventual overall winner...

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13. January 9, 2012 12:42 PM

    Spying on Journalists is Easy

    Lax computer security creates easy targets

    By Alysia Santo

    When promising anonymity, discreetly stashed notes and a tight lip are the precautions of journalism’s past. Reporters have gone to jail rather than share the information they’ve gathered for a court proceeding, but as reporters increasingly depend on technology to correspond and collect material, the fruits of that labor can be accessed without a summons, subpoena, or the journalist even...

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14. February 4, 2011 12:54 PM

    Strange Eruptions from the WikiLeaks Saga

    Bill Keller offers new details on e-mail hacking

    By Clint Hendler

    Last night, The Columbia School of Journalism played host to Bill Keller and Alan Rusbridger, the top editors at The New York Times and The Guardian who worked together in 2010 on three sensational WikiLeaks document releases. Beyond the novelty of seeing them on stage together, nothing much emerged that hasn’t been covered in either Keller’s detailed article in last...

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15. January 12, 2012 03:27 PM

    Tell Me a Secret

    Soliciting leaks has its rewards, and challenges

    By Alysia Santo

    When news website 100Reporters launched this past October, it had everything you’d expect from a promising journalistic startup: top journalists, funding, partnerships with established news organizations. But 100Reporters also came equipped with Whistleblower Alley, its own WikiLeaks-style leaking portal. Started by Diana Jean Schemo and Philip Shenon, both former New York Times journalists, 100Reporters covers corruption in the US and...

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16. April 25, 2011 01:11 PM

    The Guantánamo Files

    A roundup of the latest WikiLeaks dump

    By Joel Meares

    A cache of 759 files leaked by WikiLeaks to ten news partners—and subsequently leaked to three non-partner outlets—is the fourth and smallest classified document dump to ruffle the Obama administration since the release of the Afghanistan war logs in July of last year. The “Guantánamo files,” as they are being called by news organizations now reporting on them, are believed...

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17. February 14, 2011 03:15 PM

    The HBGary Federal Scandal

    Many questions need answering as hackers shine a light on the private-security underworld

    By Ryan Chittum

    I asked the press on Friday to quickly get on the disturbing story of HBGary Federal et al on Friday. So let me tip my cap to The New York Times, which wrote a news story about it in Saturday's paper. Let's hope that the Times and others are looking deeper into this story and not treating it just as...

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18. December 28, 2010 01:13 PM

    The WikiLeaks Equation

    Secrets, free speech, and the law

    By Clint Hendler

    Call it the Year of WikiLeaks. From April 5, when the site posted a grainy video showing the death of two Reuters employees from a U.S. helicopter attack, to November 28, when mainline journalism organizations began releasing stories based on a trove of some 250,000 diplomatic cables, the secret-sharing site shaped the news cycle. It also threatened to upend America’s...

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19. July 15, 2011 10:30 AM

    What Bradley told Adrian

    Glenn Greenwald avoids the cut of Occam’s razor

    By Clint Hendler

    On Wednesday Wired released an almost completely unredacted version of the May 2010 chat transcripts between Adrian Lamo and Bradley Manning. Lamo, an ex-hacker, would later turn these transcripts over to both Wired and the US government, causing Manning’s arrest on charges of having been WikiLeaks’s source for a string of high-profile releases. Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, who has long been...

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20. January 4, 2011 01:45 PM

    What WikiLeaks Means: a CJR Podcast

    By The Editors

    WikiLeaks has been around for a while, but this year—beginning in April, when the site posted a video showing the death of two Reuters employees in a U.S. helicopter attack, through November, when mainline journalism organizations began releasing stories based on a trove of some 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, stories that are still rolling out—the world took notice. Is WikiLeaks...

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