Latest version of the WikiLeaks - files related to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, - in Cuba took place Sunday in partnership with press agencies eight in the United States and other countries, including the Washington Post and the McClatchy newspapers and the Telegraph in London. The "official" version was accelerated when WikiLeaks has learned that two news organizations who were collaborators with WikiLeaks in the past, but are explicitly excluded at this time - The New York - Times and The Guardian are preparing their own stories of Guantánamo anywayhaving obtained the information independently.
This resulted in a rush to be the first in line with the secrets that only would never fled so quickly if WikiLeaks mad not possessed the documents first. For journalism, it was a recalibration of the relations between competitors and traditional sources. And for WikiLeaks, it is a lesson in how it is difficult to lead the coverage of the news rather than be shaken by it.
In its first prominent collaboration of newspapers, last July, WikiLeaks has given exclusive access to an archive secret logs of the war in Afghanistan for The Times, The Guardian in Britain, and Der Spiegel in Germany. Now, as it releases, gradually the diplomatic cables from 250 000 to United States, WikiLeaks said it has more than 50 local partners, most of them, the newspapers, the daily Taraf in Turkey Espresso to the Portugal for The Hindu in India. Some of these two newspapers describe the relationship with WikiLeaks as a contract.
The WikiLeaks intention has always been to maximize its impact, but its media strategy has changed much since its launch in 2007, with the idea that, if she posted of important documents to its site - one come, come all - journalists would report with impatience the new it. Since he has learned the value of an "exclusive" to journalists, the creation of partnerships with publishers who impose a collective embargo when the material can be published in exchange for privileged access to the material.
On his Twitter page, WikiLeaks suggests that he did not mind that he had lost control of its cache of secrets, saying it was pleased that its publications former partner had "added their weight to increase our impact."
Yochai Benkler, Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, think quest anti-secrecy of WikiLeaks was "improved step undermined by the intensification of competition to cover documents." The Guantánamo files, said, confirmed that frees more early already suggested: that "the future of the estate of fourth network will include a mixture of traditional and online, cooperation and competition on a global scale in a difficult but productive relationship."
In a trial this month in the British magazine New Statesman, the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, explained his reasoning. "While he describes WikiLeaks as ' firmly in the tradition of these radical publishers that attempted to file all the mysteries" 'and the secrets of the Government to the public', he added that "for reasons of realpolitik, we have worked with some of the largest media groups."
While exclusive access strategy had clear benefits to get the news out, WikiLeaks face criticism for only a few news organizations to have access to cables, said Greg Mitchell, a blogger for the Nation which published "The age of WikiLeaks." "Now", he said, "it is brilliant loose and other people get their".
Which is part of the falling-out between Mr. Assange and The Times and The Guardian.
Bill Keller, the editor of the Times, said Mr. Assange seemed to the sour on the newspaper after reading both a profile published on the first page of himself and an article on the intelligence analyst army suspected of leaking information to WikiLeaks. The profile it considered unflattering and other inadequate article. He complains to Dr. Keller that the newspaper Web site was not linked to the site WikiLeaks. "Where is the respect?" he asked Mr. Keller.
Mr. Keller said Monday, "It has been long since I have had no communication with Julian Assange."
In the tests and interviews Mr. Assange complained that The Times had worked too closely with the Government of the United States before publishing its equipment and had a "hostile attitude" towards WikiLeaks.
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