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.
Bradley Manning’s Own Defense Appears To Concede He’s No Hero
For well over a year, many have feverishly raced to the defense of U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, accused of 22 criminal charges including aiding the enemy for leaking hundreds of thousands of pages of classified documents (and video) to Wikileaks. Late in December, for the first time, we finally heard his...
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.
Dan Gillmor: 2012 will be the year of the content-controller oligopoly
We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring.
Next up is blogging pioneer Dan Gillmor, a journalism professor at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the author, most recently, of Mediactive.
Media Decoder Blog: Hearing Date Is Set for Bradley Manning, Accused in WikiLeaks Case
The Army intelligence analyst could face life in prison for providing a trove of diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks.
This Week in Review: Romenesko’s exit turns ugly, and Google+ is open for business
Plus: Reconciling digital journalism and institutions, a digital journalism pioneer retires, the search for a neutral way to tweet, and the rest of the week's required reading.
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.
