Hot Topic - Wikileaks

Big Leaks, No Meetings, Shoe Leather Reserved - May 2, 2016
Clandestine meetings on dark street corners, secrets passed silently, details checked diligently, the story written brilliantly and published under a tough editor’s watchful eye has narrated journalism’s highest calling, bringing truth to power. Real life is less dramatic. The digital age has brought new tools to the newsroom and a far different practice. The result is measured the same.

Citizen Journalism, Wikileaks And Regret - February 8, 2011
Enabled by new digital tools, the Web collided with journalism in the last decade with the hope of bringing out the best in both. Perhaps it has. Those tools and the Web itself were seen as the great enablers of information by and for all, giving rise to what came to be called citizen journalism. It was an "era that came and went quite quickly."

Wikileaks – The State Department PR Machine Neatly Handles Wikileaks And It’s The Media Having To Do The Explaining - December 2, 2010
Want a lesson in damage control? Then just study how the US State Department has handled Wikileaks. It’s A PR exercise that should be studied in universities for years. Now, it is the media that needs all the PR help it can get to handle an unforgiving public.

The Secrets Of Fragile Information - November 30, 2010
Thousands of journalists went to work Monday. Some even started early, on Sunday. There was a lot of catching up to do…in more ways than one.

News, News: Read all about it - July 26, 2010
The news business is going through difficult times. Advertising revenues are way down, with little clear understanding of the relationship between blogs and the internet to paper media. For the moment, print is the big loser. But, whatever your media preference – I do assume people are still interested in getting the news, especially readers who are looking at this article – two recent stories show how valuable the media can be in checking the government while informing the public.