Australian Press Unites For Assange

Letter to PM could prove persuasive

By Joel Meares   Dec 15, 2010 at 01:13 PM

As his lawyer alleges a grand jury in Virginia is working up charges to file against him, Julian Assange has... More

Times’s Act Two Profile of Assange

A revealing follow-up to The New Yorker

By Joel Meares   Oct 25, 2010 at 10:42 AM

Raffi Khatchadourian’s profile of Julian Assange for The New Yorker back in June—before the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs dumps—is... More

Are You Angry about WikiLeaks?

If so, why? If not, why not?

By The Editors   Nov 30, 2010 at 12:50 PM

From Sarah Palin to the Times readers who grilled Bill Keller over that paper’s right to publish information contained in... More

Did Assange Play Lawyer?

WikiLeaks insider suggests a legal adviser never existed

By Clint Hendler   Feb 9, 2011 at 03:35 PM

A recently published book excerpt suggests that “Jay Lim,” an occasional WikiLeaks spokesperson often identified as its legal advisor, was... More

Greenwald Gets It on WikiLeaks Coverage

By Joel Meares   Oct 25, 2010 at 11:18 AM

Salon media critic Glenn Greenwald hammers at a point we mentioned in our first read of the WikiLeaks coverage on... More

Julian Assange’s New Platform: RT

By Ann Cooper   Jan 26, 2012 at 04:12 PM

So here’s a partnership we might have seen coming: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will host a TV talk show that... More

Miss America’s WikiThoughts

By Joel Meares   Jan 17, 2011 at 12:17 PM

You have read our own Clint Hendler on “The WikiLeaks Equation.” The Nation’s Greg Mitchell has been blogging about it... More

The WikiLeaks Equation

Secrets, free speech, and the law

By Clint Hendler   Dec 28, 2010 at 01:13 PM

Call it the Year of WikiLeaks. From April 5, when the site posted a grainy video showing the death of... More

WikiLeaks A Blunt Weapon, But We Should Use It

A defense of the organization under new attack

By Joel Meares   Dec 2, 2010 at 10:20 AM

Many of the charges behind the “hang Julian Assange” meme doing the rounds since WikiLeaks’s third “megaleak” on Sunday hinge... More

WikiLeaks Coverage Roundup, Again

A look at coverage from The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and elsewhere

By CJR Staff   Nov 29, 2010 at 03:59 PM

On Sunday, the online secret-sharing site WikiLeaks began the process of releasing approximately 250,000 previously classified U.S. Department of State... More

WikiLeaks Coverage, Day Three

A roundup of major outlets’ continued coverage of the State Department cables story

By CJR Staff   Dec 1, 2010 at 02:00 PM

The New York Times Day three of the Times cables coverage focuses on Pakistan—firstly with a long report by Jane... More

WikiLeaks Coverage, Day Two

A look at second-day WikiLeaks coverage from The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and others

By The Editors   Nov 30, 2010 at 02:22 PM

The New York Times Day two of the Times’s coverage of the latest WikiDump arrives with few “explosive” revelations, but... More

WikiPublishers Face Their Readers

Times and Guardian Answer Questions on Leaks

By Joel Meares   Nov 29, 2010 at 04:14 PM

The two English-language newspapers given early access to the WikiLeaks diplomatic cable dump have published two very different Q&As with... More