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#Niemanleaks on Thursday: After WikiLeaks, a flood of new questions
While WikiLeaks’ recent document dumps have answered questions large and small (How many civilians have been killed in Iraq? Does Muammar al-Gaddafi prefer blondes or brunettes?), the organization’s...
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Bill Keller: WikiLeaks isn’t my kind of news org, but they have evolved
During a wide-ranging conversation on government secrecy and the relationship between The New York Times and WikiLeaks, Times executive editor Bill Keller was asked whether he’d be bothered if...
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Secrecy conference: In countries like Romania and Cambodia, illegal leaks can...
While, in the United States, WikiLeaks has caused a furor for its journalism-by-data-dump, similar leaks abroad are a major source of reporting on government operations — occasionally providing the...
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In an age of free-flowing information, there’s still a role for journalists...
The Washington Post’s venerable national security reporter Walter Pincus wants to make one thing clear: He isn’t just hopping on the WikiLeaks bandwagon. “I used WikiLeaks before [it] became famous,”...
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At #Niemanleaks, a new generation of tools to manage floods of new data
Whether it’s 250,000 State Department cables or the massive spending databases on Recovery.gov, the trend in data has definitely become “more.” That presents journalists with a new problem: How do you...
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#NiemanLeaks big takeaway? Even post-WikiLeaks, context still key
The Nieman Foundation’s Secrecy and Journalism conference last week set out to tackle a lot of questions, but perhaps none were as big as the central one posed to attendees: What should journalism’s...
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A year later, lessons for the media from the Haiti earthquake response
Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, as well as the anniversary of one of the largest ever humanitarian responses to a natural disaster, with almost $3.8 billion...
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Michael Morisy: Making government officials’ emails open to scrutiny is key...
Editor’s note: Matthew Yglesias of Vox riled a lot of journalists’ feathers this week with his piece “Against transparency,” which argued making public officials’ emails subject to records requests...
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