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  1. 1. Jens Martensson 2 It is a multi-national media organization and associated library. It was founded by its publisher Julian Assange in 2006. Specializes in the analysis and publication of large datasets of censo- red or otherwise restricted official materials involving War, Spying and Corruption. It has so far published more than 10 million documents and associated analyses. Imran Farooq “WikiLeaks is a giant library of the world's most persecuted documents. We give asylum to these documents, we analyze them, we promote them and we obtain more.” - Julian Assange
  2. 2. Jens Martensson 3Imran Farooq Its publisher and its journalists have won many awards, including •The Economist New Media Award (2008) •The Amnesty New Media Award (2009) •TIME Magazine Person of the Year, People's Choice (highest global vote) (2010) •The Sam Adams Award for Integrity (2010) •The National Union of Journalists Journalist of the Year (Hrafnsson) (2011) •The Sydney Peace Foundation Gold Medal (2011) •The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (2011) •The Blanquerna Award for Best Communicator (2011) •The Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism (2011) •The Voltaire Award for Free Speech (2011) •The International Piero Passetti Journalism Prize of the National Union of Italian Journalists (2011) •The Jose Couso Press Freedom Award (2011) •The Privacy International Hero of Privacy (2012) •The Global Exchange Human Rights People's Choice Award (2013) •The Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts (2013) •The Brazillian Press Association Human Rights Award (2013) •The Kazakstan Union of Journalists Top Prize (2014)
  3. 3. Jens Martensson WIKILEAKS Brierf History 4Imran Farooq Its website, initiated in 2006 in Iceland by the organisation Sunshine Press. 10 million documents in 10 years since its launch. Documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war. A report informing a corruption investigation in Kenya.  In April 2010, it released Collateral Murder footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi journalists were among those killed.
  4. 4. Jens MartenssonImran Farooq 5 In 2010, it also released the US State Department diplomatic "cables", classified cables that had been sent to the US State Department. In April 2011, Wikileaks began publishing 779 secret files relating to prisoners detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. During the 2016 US presidential election campaign, WikiLeaks released emails and other documents from the Democratic National Committee and from Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta.
  5. 5. Jens Martensson 6Imran Farooq WikiLeaks cables expose Pakistan nuclear fears US and UK diplomats warn of terrorists getting hold of fissile material and of Pakistan-India nuclear exchange. American and British diplomats fear Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme could lead to fissile material falling into the hands of terrorists or a devastating nuclear exchange with India. The latest cache of US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks contains warnings that Pakistan is rapidly building its nuclear stockpile despite the country's growing instability and "pending economic catastrophe". Source- US fears over Pakistan were spelled out in an intelligence briefing in 2008. "Despite pending economic catastrophe, Pakistan is producing nuclear weapons at a faster rate than any other country in the world," the secret cable said. There are 120,000-130,000 people directly involved in Pakistan's nuclear and missile programmes … There is no way to guarantee that all are 100% loyal and reliable.
  6. 6. Jens Martensson 7 WIKILEAKS related to Kashmir conflict. Imran Farooq WikiLeaks cables: India accused of systematic use of torture in Kashmir Beatings and electric shocks inflicted on hundreds of civilians detained in Kashmir. The dispatches, obtained by website WikiLeaks, reveal that US diplomats in Delhi were briefed in 2005 by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) about the use of electrocution, beatings and sexual humiliation against hundreds of detainees. 2007 American diplomats were concerned about widespread human rights abuses by Indian security forces, who they said relied on torture for confessions.
  7. 7. Jens Martensson Other cables reveal that:  The Dalai Lama has told US officials that combating climate change is more urgent than finding a political solution in Tibet, which "can wait five to 10 years". Rahul Gandhi, the crown prince of Indian politics, believes Hindu extremists pose a greater threat to his country than Muslim militants, according to the American ambassador to India. Five doctors were coerced by the Sri Lankan government to recant on casualty figures they gave to journalists in the last months of island's brutal civil war. 8Imran Farooq
  8. 8. Jens Martensson 9Imran Farooq  Reflecting the increased role that numerical data is used in the production and distribution of information in the digital era  It reflects the increased interaction between content producers (journalist) and several other fields such as design, computer science and statistics. From the point of view of journalists, it represents "an overlapping set of competencies drawn from disparate fields
  9. 9. Jens Martensson 10Imran Farooq Data journalism has been widely used to unite several concepts and link them to journalism. Some see these as levels or stages leading from the simpler to the more complex uses of new technologies in the journalistic process. Designers are not always part of the process. According to author and data journalism trainer Henk van Ess,[3] "Datajournalism can be based on any data that has to be processed first with tools before a relevant story is possible. It doesn't include visualisation per se".
  10. 10. Jens Martensson 11Imran Farooq

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