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Wikileaks Chief Julian Assange Lands Talk Show Gig On RT

It has been a while since we heard from the chief editor of Wikileaks and profoundly bizarre Australian "hacktivist" Julian Assange, currently on house arrest in the UK. As it turns out, he is working on a gig in 24-hour news-- at the network formerly known as Russia Today, RT Television. He will be...

Media Decoder Blog: Assange to Host Conversations on TV Show

The WikiLeaks founder in March will begin a series of 10 half-hour conversations with "key political players,'' and the Kremlin-back RT Network in Russia said it would carry the series.

Daily Must-Reads, Jan. 19, 2012

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung

1. TV news starts covering SOPA after fleet of major sites go dark (TV Newser)

2. Did the anti-SOPA protests work? (PC World)

3. Apple unveils iBooks Author, an app for easy self-publishing (GigaOm)

4. Why the news industry should mimic...

This Week in Review: A referendum on fact-checking, and the Times Co. in transition

Plus: A look at the world of news in 2011 and 2012, a SOPA update, and the rest of this week's news and commentary in journalism and technology.

This Week in Review: Good news for paywalls, and Yahoo joins the personalized news app parade

Plus: Julian Assange faces extradition, public radio continues to struggle with political opinions, and the rest of the week's journalism and tech news.

Journalism Education Roundup, Nov. 1, 2011

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This Week in Review: Getting tablet news to pay, and WikiLeaks steps back to fight ‘blockade’

Plus: News Corp.'s shareholder meeting, USA Today tries an innovative data licensing strategy, and the rest of the week's big stories.

Media Decoder: Memoir of WikiLeaks Founder Is Tabled

A book deal that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, signed only six months ago has fallen through, according the Guardian.

Wikileaks Threatens To Sue Mastercard, Visa, Others For Freezing Accounts

Well, this explains that parody commercial. Subversive online group Wikileaks is threatening to sue Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal, among others, for preventing the group from collecting donations. This week, the group announced that they are waiting another five days to sue the companies for blocking their money flows.

Wikileaks Threatens To Sue Mastercard, Visa, Others For Freezing Accounts

Well, this explains that parody commercial. Subversive online group Wikileaks is threatening to sue Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal, among others, for preventing the group from collecting donations. This week, the group announced that they are waiting another five days to sue the companies for blocking their money flows.

The Daily Beast Reads Rep. Ron Paul’s New Book So You Don’t Have To

Known as an iconoclastic Congressman and serial presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul also has a lesser-known career as a prolific author. To understand more about the candidate, the Daily Beast's David Graham went through the 2012 hopeful's latest tome, Liberty Defined, and came away concluding, perhaps unfairly, that Rep. Paul is not a "disciplined...

Watch: Wikileaks Creates A MasterCard Parody Promo

Wikileaks is an organization that may not exactly be lacking in publicity but, nonetheless, the group has put together quite a neat little promotional video for itself.