April 17, 2019 •
Censorship, Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent, Technology •
by Philip Di Salvo
During the past decade, whistleblowing has come to the fore as an important lever for achieving change in today’s democratic societies. WikiLeaks, Snowden and the revelations about Cambridge Analytica have not only confirmed the key role...
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October 27, 2015 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Michael Haller
Let me take you back to 3rd December 2013: Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, testifies before the House of Commons’ Home Affairs Committee. It was to become a tense 78-minute interrogation on his newspaper’s decision to...
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March 18, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Recent •
by Caroline Lees
The debate over the impact of Edward Snowden’s intelligence leaks has been obscured by “muddle and fog”, particularly in the United Kingdom, according to Alan Rusbridger. The Guardian’s editor-in-chief said the lack of response...
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February 19, 2015 •
Press Freedom •
by Ariane Kleijwegt
There is hardly a country where Edward Snowden, probably the best-known whistleblower of our time, is more highly-regarded than in Germany. This is ironic considering how disinterested Germans usually are towards whistleblowing in their...
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June 12, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Thomas Schmidt
When the US Supreme Court recently turned down an appeal from James Risen, a Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter for the New York Times, it effectively declined to settle a long-simmering debate about the legal consequences of reporting leaks....
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February 3, 2014 •
Press Freedom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
At a first glance, president Obama’s recent speech about the NSA seems to support arguments by Dan Gillmor, one of America’s most prominent Internet gurus. He believes that the fallout from the information leaked by Edward Snowden...
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November 6, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Thomas Schmidt
The debate was civil but the tone was sharp. When Bill Keller, the former executive editor of the New York Times, and Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer/blogger/journalist who broke the Snowden NSA story, recently engaged in a vigorous debate...
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July 17, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
We are used to the media turning on those who seek to expose corruption and malpractice. But it is shocking nonetheless how soon media companies, when presented with one of the biggest data scandals in world history- namely the news that...
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