Aram Zucker-Scharff

Virtually Everything the Government Did to WikiLeaks is Now Being Done to Mainstream US Reporters:

At Freedom of the Press Foundation, we believe it’s vital to defend WikiLeaks’ right to gather and publish classified information in the public interest, just as it’s vital to protect the rights of Associated Press and Fox News to do the same. Under the law, the AP, Fox News, and WikiLeaks are no different (a fact that even the government argues). If one falls, the others will not be far behind.

When they came for Wikileaks… 

“When our sources are prosecuted, the news-gathering process is criminalized, so it’s incumbent upon all journalists to speak up.”

– New Yorker’s Jane Mayer quoted in Guardian’s article Justice Department’s pursuit of AP’s phone records is both extreme and dangerous

““There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know.””

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AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt.

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futurejournalismproject:

Watergate: The Video Game

mediareporter:

Journalists: It’s the game you’ve always wanted to play. Forget finding Carmen Sandiego. In Watergate: The Video Game, you’re on the hunt to expose Richard Nixon’s corruption. Here, the real sleuthing happens through interviews, document acquisition and hard-hitting reporting. This is the best way to celebrate the Pulitzer Prize that the Washington Post received 40 years ago today for its coverage of the Watergate scandal.

FJP: I like the 8-bit glory of it all. — Michael

If we’re a little bleary-eyed tomorrow, it’s because we’ve spent all night investigating Watergate. 

This is basically what we’ve all been waiting for.