Comments on: Data, diffusion, impact: Five big questions the Wikileaks story raises about the future of journalism

By: Yeah, but what does it mean for journalism? A visual rhetoric guide » Nieman Journalism Lab

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:01:08 +0000

[...] place on the world stage, and the cry goes up: But what does it mean for journalism? I’m guilty of it myself. And a lot of the time, it’s a meaningful question to ask; we are in the [...]

By: WikiLeaks Gets a Helping Hand From Swedish Pirates

WikiLeaks Gets a Helping Hand From Swedish Pirates — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:16:18 +0000

[...] who want to maintain control over information about themselves. The Nieman Journalism Lab described the partnership between WikiLeaks and the traditional news outlets who published parts of the 90,000 military [...]

By: The War Logs: De journalistiske perspektiver « Ny Journalistik

The War Logs: De journalistiske perspektiver « Ny Journalistik — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:22:46 +0000

[...] på City University i New York, C.W. Anderson peger i denne artikel på fem rigtig interessante [...]

By: 66

66 — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:57:05 +0000

Post was 444.00 +23.51‎ (5.59%‎) this morning. You can measure it and weigh it. That’s continuity. When it goes to 450 you’ll be the first to know. Stay out of jail, you won’t get out free.

By: 66

66 — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:47:51 +0000

The Washington Post was acting as a collector. Wikileaks acts as an unauthorized extortioner. Courts have wavered between the right of privacy and the right of public inquiry. You have the right to remain silent. You don’t have the right to break into classified computer systems and take data and publish it. When all your sources end up in prison, it’s kind of difficult to do future journalism. You can collect more information behind the bar in Top Shelf America than behind bars in Top Secret America. You can create your own terror cell.

By: Wikileaks-skup: Journalistisk revolusjon med bismak | Netthoder

Wikileaks-skup: Journalistisk revolusjon med bismak | Netthoder — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:46:13 +0000

[...] lest om metodologien som ble brukt i arbeidet med dokumentene, men Nieman Journalism Labs’ Fem spørsmål Wikileaks-saken reiser om fremtidens journalistikk er også interessant. Samtidig er kanskje de største spørsmålene denne saken reiser spørsmålene [...]

By: WikiLeaks and continuity: What if we had a news outlet exclusively focused on follow-up journalism? » Nieman Journalism Lab

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:15:23 +0000

[...] Lab contributor C.W. Anderson remarked on Monday: “I wonder what it would take for a story like the ‘War Logs’ bombshell [...]

By: Is WikiLeaks More Than Just a High-Tech Brown Envelope? Yes | Hector Alvarez

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:42:26 +0000

[...] with traditional media to make secret data public for society’s benefit. C.W. Anderson at the Nieman Journalism Lab called it “a classic case study of the new ecosystem of news diffusion: from new [...]

By: Is WikiLeaks More Than Just a High-Tech Brown Envelope? Yes | Hector Alvarez

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:42:26 +0000

By: This Week in Review: WikiLeaks’ new journalism order, a paywall’s purpose, and a future for Flipboard » Nieman Journalism Lab

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:15:40 +0000

[...] them, but if you’re pressed for time, the essential reads on the situation are Steve Myers, C.W. Anderson, Clint Hendler, and Janine Wedel and Linda [...]

By: links for 2010-07-30

links for 2010-07-30 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:05:52 +0000

[...] Data, diffusion, impact: Five big questions the Wikileaks story raises about the future of journalis… Kevin: Some really smart analysis and links to more really smart analysis about the Wikileaks Afghan War Logs release by CW Anderson: "To understand the world of Wikileaks, and what it means for journalism, you have to understand the world of geeks, of hackers, and of techno-dissidents. Understanding reporting and reporters isn’t enough." I couldn't agree more, and it shows why understanding this world is important to a broader range of stories. This culture is becoming much more widespread and mainstream, and it has a different ethos to traditional culture. Furthermore, Anderson says: "We’re seeing here the full-throated emergence of what a lot of smart people have been talking about for years now: data-driven journalism, but data in the service of somehow getting to the “big picture” about what’s really going on in the world." Good piece of analysis. (tags: wikileaks journalism socialmedia data analysis 2010) [...]

By: Is WikiLeaks More Than Just a High-Tech Brown Envelope? Yes

Is WikiLeaks More Than Just a High-Tech Brown Envelope? Yes — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:41:50 +0000

By: Warlogs, BigData und die Folgen für den Journalismus | Datenjournalist

Warlogs, BigData und die Folgen für den Journalismus | Datenjournalist — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:53:14 +0000

[...] Das Nieman Journalism Lab schrieb dazu im Beitrag: Data, diffusion, impact: Five big questions the Wikileaks story raises about the future of journalis…: [...]

By: New Media | M. Stefan Strozier (Stroz-ee-ay)

New Media | M. Stefan Strozier (Stroz-ee-ay) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:14:28 +0000

[...] Media Posted on July 28, 2010 by Mike Strozier —The WikiLeaks-newspaper scandal coverage continues. But even this pro-New Media article is wrong. It’s not a “big story” no matter [...]

By: WikiLeaks, journalism and truth - John McQuaid - Edge of Chaos - True/Slant

WikiLeaks, journalism and truth - John McQuaid - Edge of Chaos - True/Slant — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:16:16 +0000

[...] argues that it does: This captures the essence of the question I was trying to get at in the fifth point of yesterday’s post (“journalism in the era of big data”). I noted the similarities between “War Logs” and last [...]

By: Trevor Butterworth

Trevor Butterworth — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:38:48 +0000

I’m not sure I agree with the idea that the Wikileaks memo-lanche is an example of data-driven journalism for the reason that the plural of anecdote is not data. And that is what much of this documentation is – raw intel in the form of yarns and anecdotes. Who knows what they mean? Who knows how many are true? The sorting and sifting that’s going on with WL’s collaborators may clarify some memos but it may obscure others. Simply establishing the criteria for evaluating this information gives me a headache thinking about it. It can’t be reduced to a new narrative – Government deliberately lied – as in the Pentagon Papers, it’s all just more of what we knew, which doesn’t actually tell us much beyond a sense failure.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:26:29 +0000

Why Wikileaks? Because they were only ones who could crack the encryption on the leaked content. Mucking with the encryption is almost certainly illegal (“circumvention” etc), and puts them in fuzzy territory regarding press protections. Are they now a source or reporter or something else?

To be fair, I don’t know that the War Logs were leaked with encryption intact. But the tapes that became Collateral Murder were, with military grade stuff. According to Wikileaks, it took Assange and co. several months to break it. I suspect this is the same thing; if they were widely stored in a readable format we’d have seen a trickle of these docs earlier from other sources.

No news organization could have done this. Or, perhaps I should say, no other news organization could have done this.

By: When do 92,000 documents trump an off-the-record dinner? A few more thoughts about Wikileaks » Nieman Journalism Lab

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:32:21 +0000

[...] you can spend an entire morning racing the clock to put together the perfect blog post, and once you’re done, find a quote or two that would have let you sum up the entire thing in a lot less time. Such is [...]

By: DSM

DSM — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:45:24 +0000

Rachel Maddow? *cough*

There’s really only one news outlet that refuses to hide important news stories, not special interest fluff BS.

That said, anyone releasing in an unauthorized manner confidential materials belonging to the US or her allies should be prosecuted. The ability to disclose such materials does not give one the right, and no, it isn’t the business of the general populace.

By: What does the Wikileaks Afghan doc story tell us about where journalism is headed? | Passing Comments

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:27:23 +0000

[...] Anderson goes on to point out how the three major newspapers breaking the Wikileaks documents story — New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel — each talked in a different way about the Wikileaks data. And he identifies the emergence of something new in journalism (read post here). [...]

By: Wikileaks ist die erste staatenlose Nachrichtenorganisation

Wikileaks ist die erste staatenlose Nachrichtenorganisation — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:01:37 +0000

[...] Lesenswert auch, wie im Grunde immer, die Analyse der Vorgänge im Nieman Journalism Lab: [...]

By: Die Afghanistan-Protokolle und das Scheitern des

Die Afghanistan-Protokolle und das Scheitern des — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:52:48 +0000

[...] vom 27.7.: Das Nieman Journalism Lab fragt sich ebenfalls was die Afghanistan-Protokolle für den Journalismus …- [...]

By: links for 2010-07-26 : The ChipCast || by Chip Mahaney

links for 2010-07-26 : The ChipCast || by Chip Mahaney — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:03:24 +0000

[...] Data, diffusion, impact: Five big questions the Wikileaks story raises about the future of journalis… (tags: journalism, socialmedia wikileaks data) [...]

By: empi

empi — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:19:24 +0000

Where is this quality journalism to which you refer. There certainly is none in the MSM except for Rachel Maddow. I don’t even see it in any of the newspapers we have come to know and hate over the years.

By: Will Wikileaks Rock Traditional Media Too? | Techi.com

Will Wikileaks Rock Traditional Media Too? | Techi.com — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:08:14 +0000

[...] like the folks at the Nieman Journalism lab, wonder what happens when journalism becomes about huge amounts of data rather than just good old fashioned [...]