Guardian.co.uk: ‘Why we were right to publish the WikiLeaks embassy cables’
December 6th, 2010Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Journalism
The Guardian’s readers’ editor Chris Elliott weighs in on the newspaper’s decision to partner WikiLeaks in the release of the US embassy cables:
The simple journalistic truth that underpins probably the largest and most complex reporting exercise ever undertaken by the Guardian is that all the stories emerging from the WikiLeaks material would have been important public-interest stories in any circumstances.
Full post on Guardian.co.uk at this link…
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