The WikiLeaks Cables: How the NY Times Decided What to Publish
Complete video at: fora.tv David E. Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, discusses the editorial process the paper used to decide how to publish the leaked cables it received from WikiLeaks. ----- What does the turmoil in the Middle East mean? Former Assistant Secretary of State James P. Rubin and New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent David E. Sanger discuss the recent overthrow of Middle East dictators. Since January, countries in the Middle East have been buffeted by massive protests. These have led to the toppling of two Middle East leaders, and extensive use of violence. What does it mean? Where will it lead? - Yeshiva University David E. Sanger is the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times and is one of the newspaper's senior writers. In a 24-year career at the paper, he has reported from New York, Tokyo, and Washington, covering a wide variety of issues surrounding foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation, Asian affairs, and, for the past five years, the arc of the Bush presidency. Twice he has been a member of Times reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book is The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power (Harmony, 2009), a Times best-seller that explores the national security challenges facing President Barack Obama.
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Date published: 27 Apr 2011 - 7:32am
The WikiLeaks Debate
rocketboom.com Click on the link above for more info on today's episode! Molly updates you on the latest developments in the situation surrounding WikiLeaks. Senator Joe Lieberman puts the heat on Amazon www.lewrockwell.com Does Wikileaks have 1st Amendment case against Lieberman? www.openmarket.org Amazon kills Wikileaks Account aws.amazon.com Over 1000 Mirrored sites: wikileaks.ch Bank Freezes Julian's assets www.businessinsider.com Widespread Call for His Murder arstechnica.com Facebook Not removing any Wikileaks Content news.cnet.com Anonymous attacks PayPal in 'Operation Avenge Assange' www.theregister.co.uk PayPal says State Dept Told us To. techcrunch.com Wikileaks defended by Anonomous Hacktivists www.bbc.co.uk Operation Payback i.imgur.com 4chan rises to defend arstechnica.com Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more Rocketboom Daily with Molly! youtube.com Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates! twitter.com twitter.com Join us on Facebook for behind the scenes pics and videos! facebook.com 
WikiLeaks Cable Dump: Is Secrecy Necessary for Diplomacy?
Complete video at: fora.tv Did the US diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks belong in the public domain? Former diplomat Sir Richard Dalton argues no, that secrecy plays an extremely important role in international diplomacy. "Secrets exist for a reason," says Dalton. "Much of this information ... did not belong in the public domain." ----- Following the release this weekend of 251287 confidential United States embassy cables, this First Wednesday debate focuses on the revelations of the latest leak from whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. Joining the discussion are: WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson; Professor Colleen Graffy, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, US State Department and law professor, Pepperdine University; James Ball a data journalist who has been working with WikiLeaks; Sir Richard Dalton, associate fellow of the Middle East and North Africa programme at Chatham House. The discussion will be chaired by author and broadcaster Tom Fenton. - The Frontline Club Sir Richard Dalton is an Associate Fellow on the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, a post he has held since retiring from the civil service in 2006. He joined HM Diplomatic Service in the 1970s and was posted to the Middle East. In the mid-1990s he was consul-general in Jerusalem and was appointed as Head of Personnel in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1998. From 2003 until his retirement he was the British Ambassador to Iran. Dalton <b>...</b> 
Loaded: WikiLeaks, the movie
BlackBerry software will shut your boss out of your personal life on your mobile device, McDonald's launches a touch-and-go payment system in the UK, and movie execs are pursuing a film about WikiLeaks and its founder. 
WikiLeaks: How Safe Are Confidential Sources?
Complete video at: fora.tv WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange addresses the question of how safe confidential sources are in the digital age. "The chance of your source getting run over by a car," he says, "are vastly higher than they are of being caught." ----- A panel of experts from the press, government, and academia discuss their new and upcoming projects. They discuss different methods of promoting investigative journalism, ranging from building non-profit institutions to converting the country of Iceland into a "free press haven." The panel features Gavin MacFadyen (The Bureau for Investigative Journalism, UK), Chuck Lewis (American University), Julian Assange (WikiLeaks), Birgitta Jónsdóttir (Member of Parliament, Iceland) and Jon Weber (The Bay Citizen). Lowell Bergman moderates. - Berkeley School of Journalism Julian Assange is an Australian journalist, programmer and Internet activist, best known for his involvement with Wikileaks, a whistleblower website. 
WikiLeaks: Assange Recalls Past Efforts to Block Site
Complete video at: fora.tv In this April 2010 highlight, WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange recalls a few of the various government efforts to monitor and potentially shut down the site. "Whenever you see surveillance, what you're seeing is always the tip of the iceberg," he notes, "because it's when people have screwed up." ----- A panel of experts from the press, government, and academia discuss their new and upcoming projects. They discuss different methods of promoting investigative journalism, ranging from building non-profit institutions to converting the country of Iceland into a "free press haven." The panel features Gavin MacFadyen (The Bureau for Investigative Journalism, UK), Chuck Lewis (American University), Julian Assange (WikiLeaks), Birgitta Jónsdóttir (Member of Parliament, Iceland) and Jon Weber (The Bay Citizen). Lowell Bergman moderates. - Berkeley School of Journalism Julian Assange is an Australian journalist, programmer and Internet activist, best known for his involvement with Wikileaks, a whistleblower website. 
Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks
The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished -- and what drives him. The interview includes graphic footage of a recent US airstrike in Baghdad.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com 
Is WikiLeaks' Julian Assange the Next Daniel Ellsberg?
Complete video at: fora.tv Mark McArdle, CEO of tinyHippos, and CIGI Distinguished Fellow Paul Heinbecker discuss the differences between Wikileaks' Julian Assange and famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. McArdle and Heinbecker argue that unlike the Ellsberg's 1971 leak of the Pentagon Papers, the WikiLeaks cables represent an "indiscriminate" leaking of information. "Ellsberg went out on a limb, because he saw something that fundamentally bothered him," says McArdle. For related videos, visit WikiLeaks: Security Threat or Media Savior? A FORA.tv Series: fora.tv ----- With the media firestorm created by the content of WikiLeaks' release of US diplomatic cables, a corresponding debate over the future of diplomacy and the prevention of other leaks has also taken place. While many commentators agree that the cables have portrayed the US foreign service in a positive light, others argue that the potential for future leaks will make diplomacy more secretive, and ultimately less effective. - Centre for International Governance Innovation Mark J. McArdle is a seasoned technology executive, with over 18 years of technical experience in some of the best brands in Technology. He has worked at MKS, Open Text, PGP and McAfee. Mark is now CEO of tinyHippos. Mr. Heinbecker is the inaugural Director of the Laurier University Centre for Global Relations and a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), both in Waterloo, Ontario. 
Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks
The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished -- and what drives him. The interview includes graphic footage of a recent US airstrike in Baghdad.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com 
The WikiLeaks Case: America's Internet Freedom Hypocrisy
Complete video at: fora.tv Stephen M. Walt and Evgeny Morozov discuss the inherent contradictions behind America's support for free and open access to the Internet internationally and its attempts at censorship domestically. Morozov argues that by asking Amazon to shut down WikiLeaks, the US government was "asking them to basically take the same action that we would probably criticize were it to happen in China." ---- Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. He is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and runs the magazine's "Net Effect" blog about the Internet's impact on global politics. Evgeny Morozov is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. He was formerly a Yahoo! fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and a fellow at George Soros's Open Society Institute, where he remains on the board of the Information Program. Previously, he was Director of New Media at the Prague-based NGO Transitions Online (TOL) and a columnist for the Russian newspaper Akzia. He is also on the sub-board of the Information Program of the Open Society Institute. Morozov's writings have appeared in many publications, including The Economist, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The International Herald Tribune. 
WikiLeaks vs New York Times: US Press "In a Bubble"?
Complete video at: fora.tv WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange and New York Times executive editor Bill Keller debate Assange's remark that the United States press cares little about events that happen outside its borders. "The US press is interested in the United States, it is not interested in what happens outside the United States," says Assange. "It is a goldfish bowl of constant self-referral and self-reporting." ----- Panel: WikiLeaks: The Fallout. Featuring Julian Assange, Lowell Bergman, Nick Davies, Mark Feldstein, Bill Keller, David McCraw, Michael Rochford, Gabriel Schoenfeld, Jack Shafer, and Holger Stark. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, on April 8, 2011. The 3-day Logan Symposium now in its 5th year, serves a number of key constituencies. Culling together a group of dedicated investigative reporters, academics, philanthropists, media experts and graduate students, the invite only event is an industry must. Once a humble commitment to host an annual lecture in the name of its benefactors, the Logan Symposium quickly rose in popularity as "one of the most influential events of its kind," according to the Seattle Times. Covered and attended by a veritable 'who's who' in investigative reporting, the conference dissects controversial topics in the field, hosts internationally renowned panelists, and examines key factors of change in investigative reporting. Julian Assange is an Australian journalist <b>...</b>