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WikiLeaks, Disclosure, Free Speech and Democracy: New Media and the Fourth Estate
Jennifer Robinson

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“The past 12 months have been, without a doubt, the most exciting in recent history in terms of disclosure of information. The disclosure of information by WikiLeaks, including collateral murder, the Afghanistan and Iraq War logs, Cablegate, the Guantanamo Bay files, the spy files and the global intelligence files, has meant that WikiLeaks and its editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, have been at the top of international headlines …”