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New media outlet

First Look media venture created in wake of disclosures, first revelations posted today. https://www.firstlook.org/#/home

"Led by award-winning journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill, the initial focus will be on stories based on documents from Edward Snowden.

First Look Media, the news organization created by Pierre Omidyar, today announced the launch of its first digital magazine, The Intercept. It is the first of what will eventually become a family of digital magazines published by First Look"

Greenwald:

"Our short-term mission is limited but critically important: to provide a platform and an editorial structure in which to aggressively report on the disclosures provided to us by our source, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. We decided to launch now because we believe we have a vital and urgent obligation to this story, to these documents, and to the public.

Over the past seven months the journalists who have reported on these documents from the National Security Agency have been repeatedly threatened by a wide range of government officials. Sometimes, the intimidation campaign has gone beyond mere threats. These attempted intimidation tactics have intensified in recent weeks and have become clearly more concerted and coordinated.

None of this will deter the journalism we are doing. A primary function of The Intercept is to insist upon and defend our press freedoms from those who wish to infringe them. We are determined to move forward with what we believe is essential reporting in the public interest and with a commitment to the ideal that a truly free and independent press is a vital component of any healthy democratic society."petrarchan47tc 09:43, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

• Greenwald debuts Omidyar-backed The Intercept
• Defying Threats to Journalism, Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald Launch New Venture, The Intercept petrarchan47tc 02:39, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Sources for future article on journalism in the post-leak era

There may be fodder here for multiple articles, or maybe this will all fit nicely into existing articles. petrarchan47tc 06:49, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

This quotation from (Columbia School of Journalism with editors from NYT, Guardian US, legal council for Guardian, member of Presidential panel for NSA reforms) begins to uncover how this issue is vitally important to Wikipedians - who couldn't do a thing without a free and open press:

In a larger sense, though, what information is or is not classified, and what legal protections reporters may or may not have, are beside the point—as these NSA stories have revealed. [The Guardian’s outside counsel, David] Schulz responded to [Washington Post reporter Barton] Gellman’s concerns with this frightening truth: “The technology that we have today, you don’t need to subpoena a reporter anymore. There’s an ability to find out who gave out any information,” said Schulz. “And we should all be very concerned about that, because we all need whistleblowers…. If we don’t have a mechanism that allows for whistleblowers, our whole society is going to suffer.” [...]

[Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center at the journalism school] agreed: “Where oversight has failed, a whistleblower and journalism has succeeded,” she said. “And yet the system is still wanting to punish, if you like, the one thing which has led to transparency and clarity.”

“But that should be completely unsurprising,” [The New York Times Jill] Abramson jumped in, citing the fact that the current administration has investigated seven “criminal leaks,” more than twice the number of such investigations, based on a law passed in 1917, pursued before President Obama took office. That such legal battles were still being fought by James Rosen, of Fox News, and James Risen, of the Times, were mentioned several times throughout the evening. [...]

“Instead of the position that journalists find themselves in where they’re being threatened with prosecution over identifying their sources, we are now being put in the position of something even more chilling—of being ‘co-conspirators,’” said Gibson. The accusation is now “‘You’re part of a conspiracy, possibly involving the KGB, or maybe China. Because the ordinary way of chilling journalism won’t work in this case. And I think this should be profoundly worrying, because that’s not going to stop. That is a ‘Journalism After Snowden’ problem.”

Reviews of Columbia Journalism School "Journalism After Snowden":

• Columbia Journalism Review
• HuffPost NY Times' Jill Abramson: Obama Crackdown Has Created 'Freeze' On Reporting

• Clapper: "[Snowden "and his accomplices [must] facilitate the return of the remaining stolen documents"

• Clapper refers to journalists as accomplices: "anyone who is assisting Edward Snowden [to] further harm our nation through the unauthorized disclosure of stolen documents."
• Chilling Effects: James Clapper Tells Congress That Journalists Are Ed Snowden's 'Accomplices'

• NSA Cracks Down on Journalists Speaking Out Against Spying

• Guardian journalists could face criminal charges over Edward Snowden leaks

• Interview with Alan Rusbridger on UK govt freezing of Guardian reporting

• Bill Moyers: What the Press Should Learn From the “Snowden Effect” "the Snowden revelations and their subsequent publication haven’t just had an impact on issues of privacy and national security. They’ve also occasioned a re-awakening of a debate about the role of journalism (and journalists) in a democracy and its relationship to authority."

• Der Speigel US taking part in a witch hunt

• Snowden: Media 'abdicating their responsibility'

Guardian - there's enough here for a standalone article:

• Britain targets Guardian newspaper over intelligence leaks related to Edward Snowden 11.30.13. Washington Post. By Anthony Faiola.
  • Guardian accused of aiding terrorism by publishing Snowden's revelations 12.2.13. Guardian. Ben Emmerson.
  • New York Times backs the Guardian over Snowden leaks 11.15.13. Guardian. By Roy Greenslade
  • UK's reputation is damaged by reaction to Edward Snowden, says UN official 11.15.13. Guardian. By Matthew Taylor, Nick Hopkins and Phil Maynard
    • Guardian Editor Describes Pressure After Leaks by Snowden 12.03.13. New York Times. By RAVI SOMAIYA
    • Guardian editor robustly defends Snowden leaks to UK MPs 12.03.13. Russia Today.
    • Guardian will not be intimidated over NSA leaks, Alan Rusbridger tells MPs 12.03.13. Guardian. By Nick Hopkins and Matthew Taylor
      • The Snowden Leaks and the Public 11.21.13. By Alan Rusbridger

• Why are writers being curbed by NSA surveillance? 11.12.13. LA Times. By David L. Ulin

Tech:

• Tech giants are countering government spying 12.01.13. USA Today. By John Swartz
• Is a Snowden effect stalking US telecom sales? 11.1.13. CNBC. By: Eamon Javers
• Techies vs. NSA: Encryption arms race escalates 11.30.13. Associated Press at Guardian. By MARTHA MENDOZA

Lavabit:

• How Snowden'€™s email provider will reshape the Internet privacy debate 11.13.13. Al Jazeera. By Evan Hill

• DOJ says Lavabit cannot prevent search warrants by 'locking its front gate' 11.13.13. PC World. By John Ribeiro

Orphaned references in Global surveillance and journalism

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Global surveillance and journalism's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "naka2":

• From Trailblazer Project: Checkpoint Washington - Setback in case against accused NSA leaker, Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 2010 Nov, retrieved from voices.washingtonpost.com on 2011 03 10
• From Thomas Andrews Drake: Ellen Nakashima (2010 November) "Checkpoint Washington - Setback in case against accused NSA leaker", Washington Post, voices.washingtonpost.com, Retrieved 2011-03-10

Reference named "shane2":

• From Thomas Andrews Drake: Scott Shane (11 June 2010). "Obama Takes a Hard Line Against Leaks to Press". The New York Times.
• From Stephen Jin-Woo Kim: "U.S. Analyst Is Indicted in Leak Case", August 28, 2010, Scott Shane, The New York Times, retrieved 2011 3 11

Reference named "harri1":

• From Trailblazer Project: Indictment Continues Obama Administration’s War on Leaks ,Shane Harris, washingtonian, 01/25/2011, retrieved 3/9/11
• From Thomas Andrews Drake: Shane Harris (January 25, 2011)Indictment Continues Obama Administration’s War on Leaks, Washingtonian, Retrieved 2011-09-03/

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 09:59, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

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