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Wikileaks:Media Kit
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Wikileaks should be described, depending on context, as the "open government group", "anti-corruption group", "transparency group" or "whistleblower's site".
Wikileaks staff should be described, unless otherwise specified and depending on context, as "investigative journalists", "analysts", "technologists", "open government activists" or, especially in an African context, "anti-corruption activists".
Contributors not otherwise noted should be described as "writing for Wikileaks" (for articles) or "activists" otherwise (e.g technical volunteers).
Leaks should be described as having been "released by", "available at" or "obtained by" Wikileaks. "Talk:" page comments from the public should be described having been "posted" to Wikileaks.
Wikileaks has, to its knowledge, never released a misattributed document. This is partly related to the quality of our triage process, the volume of leaks received (the good drives out the bad) and what appears to be a growing perception that Wikileaks may be the most difficult place in the world to get false messages into the body politic. For more on this issue, see Framing Obama: what the Spectator and the New York Sun won't tell you.
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- general press contact.
- Contact - our email, phone and other contacts for various countries.
- About Wikileaks - quotable answers to your frequently asked questions.
- Featured Media - featured articles about Wikileaks.
- Wikileaks Zeitgeist - Our analysis of who's talking about 'wikileaks' broken down by language and domain.
- Whistleblowers & Whistleblowers by country - courage in action.
- Background media - Articles about truth telling, famous whistleblowers, etc.
- Quotes - great quotations to use in preparing articles about Wikileaks, press freedoms or open government.
- Talking Heads - contact details for quotable interview sources (e.g Reporters Without Borders).
- Media Strategy - many of us are current or former journalists; here's our media strategy.
Wikileaks Critcism
All general criticism of Wikileaks comes from a single source, Steven Aftergood, who runs a "competing" US-focussed leak site and newsletter as part of fas.org. Wikileaks had a falling out with Steven over an advisory board position in 2007. We support and treasure FAS.org and Steven's many achievements in relation to US government secrecy, but after security analyist John Pike left FAS to form GlobalSecurity.org and the during post 9/11 political climate in the United States, FAS engaged in retro-active self-censorship of its archives. Subsequebtly Steven became a proponent of press censorship — possibly in order to justify these earlier excesses. Aftergood is neither personally nor idiologically an objective commentator and journalists should be careful not to quote him as such.
Media and internet coverage of Wikileaks
Wikileaks index of media coverage
- Featured Media
- Google news last months coverage
- Media Coverage
- Category:Media
- Wikileaks Zeitgeist - our statistical analysis of internet re-reporting of 'wikileaks' by language and domain.
Other references to 'Wikileaks' in the media
References to 'Wikileaks' in blogs
Search engine references to 'Wikileaks'
Chinese search engine references to 'Wikileaks'
Many Chinese search engines censor all documents from "wikileaks.org" at the behest the Chinese government.
- yahoo.cn Censoring since before March 2007.
- google.cn Uncensored as of June 1 2007.
- baidu.com (most popular Chinese search engine) Censoring since before March 2007.
Statistical analysis of references to 'Wikileaks'
- Wikileaks Zeitgeist - our statistical analysis of internet re-reporting of 'wikileaks' by language and domain.
- Alexa Wikileaks Traffic Details
- Alexa Wikileaks References
- Blogpulse graph of blog references
- http://trends.google.com/ - search what google users have been been searching for.
- http://wikileaks.org/stats - verbose wikileaks stats (contact security@wikileaks.org for the username/password).
Images for publications
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Useful video recordings
- Ben Bradlee briefly discusses journalists as patriots
- The Academy of Achievement also includes videos of Bob Woodward and other interview excerpts from Ben Bradlee about Watergate and the journalistic pursuit of truth.
- Daniel Ellsberg: "The Leaker in Chief": A Film by Scott Galindez from t r u t h o u t (which hosts many other videos related to truth telling). In it Ellsberg comments on being replaced by George Bush as the most famous leaker.
Useful audio recordings
Interviews and Speeches
Daniel Ellsberg
- Minnesota Public Radio interviews Ellsberg on the "moment of decision", 19 April 2007
- On The Media interview in which Ellsberg calls for truth telling, 22 September 2006
- Weekly Signals KUCI interviews Ellsberg and Sibel Edmonds on whistleblowing, the Pentagon Papers, and the Bush Administration, 20 May 2005
- KUSP's Jenn Ramage interviews Ellsberg, 2004
- The Long View: America's Illegal War Steven Rosenfeld interviews Daniel Ellsberg, 20 March 2003
- On the Media interview with Ellsberg on 30th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers, 14 July 2001
Songs
- If I had a hammer.mp3 - Wikileaks song. words and music by Lee Hays and Pete Seeger. (c) TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc.
If I had a hammer I'd hammer in the morning I'd hammer in the evening All over this land I'd hammer out danger I'd hammer out a warning I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters All over this land If I had a bell I'd ring it in the morning I'd ring it in the evening All over this land I'd ring out danger I'd ring out a warning I'd ring out love between my brothers and my sisters All over this land If I had a song I'd sing it in the morning I'd sing it in the evening All over this land I'd sing out danger I'd sing out a warning I'd sing out love between my brothers and my sisters All over this land Well I've got a hammer And I've got a bell And I've got a song to sing All over this land It's the hammer of justice It's the bell of freedom It's the song about love between my brothers and my sisters All over this land