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

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

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 11, 2011 at 09:42 PM

This is one of the more disturbing stories I've read in a while. So far, no one in the mainstream... More

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

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 29, 2010 at 07:19 PM

Julian Assange is Forbes's cover boy this week. No surprise there. He just turned the diplomatic community on its head... More

Bloomberg and BusinessWeek’s Problematic WikiLeaks Story

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

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 9, 2011 at 07:02 PM

How many red flags can we count in this Bloomberg BusinessWeek piece on WikiLeaks? First there's the headline: Is Wikileaks... More

Cable Access

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

By Craig Silverman   Jan 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM

[Update: Craig Silverman elaborates on this column in a new CJR podcast, which you can listen to elsewhere on CJR.org... 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

Keller’s WikiLeaks Think Piece

Assange bad; leaks good

By Joel Meares   Jan 27, 2011 at 12:16 PM

Times executive editor Bill Keller has a 7,900-plus word piece in Sunday’s magazine called “Dealing with Assange and the Secrets... 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

Spying on Journalists is Easy

Lax computer security creates easy targets

By Alysia Santo   Jan 9, 2012 at 12:42 PM

When promising anonymity, discreetly stashed notes and a tight lip are the precautions of journalism’s past. Reporters have gone to... More

Strange Eruptions from the WikiLeaks Saga

Bill Keller offers new details on e-mail hacking

By Clint Hendler   Feb 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM

Last night, The Columbia School of Journalism played host to Bill Keller and Alan Rusbridger, the top editors at The... More

Tell Me a Secret

Soliciting leaks has its rewards, and challenges

By Alysia Santo   Jan 12, 2012 at 03:27 PM

When news website 100Reporters launched this past October, it had everything you’d expect from a promising journalistic startup: top journalists,... More

The Guantánamo Files

A roundup of the latest WikiLeaks dump

By Joel Meares   Apr 25, 2011 at 01:11 PM

A cache of 759 files leaked by WikiLeaks to ten news partners—and subsequently leaked to three non-partner outlets—is the fourth... More

The HBGary Federal Scandal

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

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 14, 2011 at 03:15 PM

I asked the press on Friday to quickly get on the disturbing story of HBGary Federal et al on Friday.... 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

What Bradley told Adrian

Glenn Greenwald avoids the cut of Occam’s razor

By Clint Hendler   Jul 15, 2011 at 10:30 AM

On Wednesday Wired released an almost completely unredacted version of the May 2010 chat transcripts between Adrian Lamo and Bradley... More

What WikiLeaks Means: a CJR Podcast

By The Editors   Jan 4, 2011 at 01:45 PM

WikiLeaks has been around for a while, but this year—beginning in April, when the site posted a video showing the... More