WikiLeaks wins major journalism award in Australia

[kgnu_fan]

Source: The Walkley Foundation

Most outstanding contribution to journalism

WikiLeaks

This year’s winner has shown a courageous and controversial commitment to the finest traditions of journalism: justice through transparency.

WikiLeaks applied new technology to penetrate the inner workings of government to reveal an avalanche of inconvenient truths in a global publishing coup.

Its revelations, from the way the war on terror was being waged, to diplomatic bastardry, high-level horse-trading and the interference in the domestic affairs of nations, have had an undeniable impact.

This innovation could just as easily have been developed and nurtured by any of the world’s major publishers – but it wasn’t.

Yet so many eagerly took advantage of the secret cables to create more scoops in a year than most journalists could imagine in a lifetime.

Read more: http://www.walkleys.com/2011winners#most-outstanding-contribution-to-journalism

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Glenn Greenwald reports it fast
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/27/wikileaks_wins_major_journalism_award_in_australia/singleton/

[xchrom]

1. Awesome. nt

[russspeakeasy]

2. Glenn Greenwald is one of the very best authors about where the

U.S. political system went off a cliff.
I just happened on him about a year ago...and just finished "With Liberty and Justice For Some". A great read for anyone who espouses the OWS beliefs. (imho).

[earcandle]

3. Cool!

[avaistheone1]

4. Congrats!

Much deserved.

k&r

:kick:

[2banon]

5. Excellent! Anyone know the current status of Assange's appeal? Lost track...

[kgnu_fan]

6. kick to get more eyeballs....nt