What we’re reading
July 27, 2010 at 6:09 pm in Links by Chris O'Brien
The latest roundup of stories we’re reading around the Web about the future of news.
WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange : The New Yorker
Just last month, The New Yorker profiled WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
PressThink: The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World’s First Stateless News Organization
Jay Rosen writes: “In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it. But Wikileaks is able to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the logic of the Internet permits it. This is new.”
“In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it. But Wikileaks is able to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the logic of the Internet permits it. This is new.”
Design Agitator: An Experimental Honor
WNYC’s John Keefe explains “The Takeaway” project which recently won a J-Lab award.
That the award effectively predates those happenings is a huge jolt of support for experimentation, design thinking in journalism and everyone who contributed to this unique collaboration.
robcurley.com » Snapshot from the Las Vegas Sun’s multimedia newsroom
Curly writes: “But the real reason I wanted to post something today was because there were a couple of really fantastic examples Thursday that show how the Sun’s newsroom works on a couple of very different daily stories.”
What if there are no secrets? « BuzzMachine
@JeffJarvis says: Is no secret safe? That’s the moral to the Wikileaks war log story: you never know what might be leaked.
In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks ‘Transparency’ – NYTimes.com
An interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Kabul War Diary
This is the official WikiLeaks page, which was actually hard to find given the traffic overload they’re experiencing.
The War Logs – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com
Today, the conversation is all about WikiLeaks and their massive document dump on the Aghan War.
Cassidy: Silicon Valley Moms Blog turns out the lights – SiliconValley.com
The death of a popular blogging network has left many mystified. Problem: Lots of traffic, but not enough revenue.
