#cablegate: The Guardian on the importance of the WikiLeaks embassy cables leak
As WikiLeaks begins publication of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables sent by US embassies around the world, the Guardian, which is one of a group of media organisations publishing a selection (a few...
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#cablegate: 7,500 cables tagged ‘PR and Correspondence’ could shed light on...
According to WikiLeaks, there are more than 7,500 embassy cables due to be released as part of its latest classified documents leak that have the tag OPRC or “Public Relations and Correspondence”. Only...
View ArticleYahoo News: WikiLeaks embassy cables release prompts new ‘whistleblower bill’
The leak of the US embassy cables by WikiLeaks is prompting new legislation in the US that would give employees in sensitive government jobs a way to report corruption or mismanagement. The...
View ArticleEconomist.com: The Arab press’ reaction to WikiLeaks’ #cablegate release
Great round-up of the reaction from the Arab press to WikiLeaks’ latest leak involving more than 250,000 cables sent by US embassies across the world, many relating to meetings between high-ranking...
View Article#cablegate: Time magazine interview with Julian Assange
Time magazine has published in full an interview it carried out with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange on Tuesday (30 November) following this week’s release of secret and confidential diplomatic cables from...
View Article#cablegate: Amazon says WikiLeaks breached terms of service; web address host...
Following reports that Amazon’s servers had stopped hosting WikiLeaks’ site following its latest release of confidential diplomatic cables, it sought to clarify its position in a statement online. On...
View ArticleGuardian.co.uk: ‘Why we were right to publish the WikiLeaks embassy cables’
The Guardian’s readers’ editor Chris Elliott weighs in on the newspaper’s decision to partner WikiLeaks in the release of the US embassy cables: The simple journalistic truth that underpins probably...
View ArticleWired.com: ‘Why WikiLeaks is good for America’
Wired magazine has had a somewhat fractious relationship with whistleblowers’ website WikiLeaks since the latter rose to prominence. Speaking at the beginning of October at City University London,...
View ArticleComment is Free: Al-Jazeera is not Qatar’s ‘poodle’
Mark Seddon, a journalist formerly with Al-Jazeera, responds to yesterday’s reports on US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks that suggested the Arabic arm of the broadcaster has been used as a “tool...
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Comment: Joe Lieberman, the New York Times and the idea of ‘bad citizenship’
Speaking to Fox News yesterday, Senator Joe Lieberman, who is among WikiLeaks’ fiercest critics, makes very clear his desire to see the organisation’s founder Julian Assange extradited to the US and...
View ArticleEmily Bell: ‘WikiLeaks has woken up journalism’
Emily Bell on how WikiLeaks and cablegate is forcing journalists and news organisations to assess their stance on the leaks and where coverage of it fits into their news agendas: The idea that this is...
View ArticleVideo: How the Guardian has protected #cablegate sources
Great video explaining how the Guardian has organised the database of US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks, including how sensitive information is handled and sources protected. Video via...
View Article#cablegate: Newspaper editors on their part in the WikiLeaks cables release
The Guardian has published a series of editorials from the editors of the newspapers who have worked alongside the Guardian in publishing parts of WikiLeaks’ latest release, the cables sent by US...
View Article#cablegate: Judge permits tweeting from court in Assange bail hearing
As the second bail hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is about to start, take a look at some of the following Twitter accounts to follow what’s gone on in court so far and what’s happening...
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