Behind ‘War Logs,’ a New Kind of Alliance – Media Decoder

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Behind ‘War Logs,’ a New Kind of Alliance

The War Logs represent a different kind of collaboration — between traditional organizations and WikiLeaks, a source that is itself a publisher.

via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/behind-war-logs-a-new-kind-of-alliance/?partner=rss&emc=rss

In one sense, the carefully choreographed exercise represented a new kind of hybrid journalism. WikiLeaks was more than just a source, it was a publisher. And however it got the goods, WikiLeaks found willing collaborators in the mainstream eager to both compete on a big story and to serve their readers.