The controversy surrounding WikiLeaks' historic release of more than 70,000 classified US military documents on the war in Afghanistan has not died down.

But one thing is certain: online data and its dissemination is changing journalism and the relationship betwen public and power.

In this special event, we ask:

-- How are organisations like WikiLeaks changing the way public data is released?

-- What do the Afghan War Logs mean for the mainstream media and government media relations?

-- What are the legal implications of the War Logs files' release?

Joining us on this panel are: Julian Assange, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief (via online link up); journalist, academic and freedom of expression activist Heather Brooke, whose successful campaigning led to the full release of MPs' expenses files; media lawyer Mark Stephens of Finers, Stephens Innocent and Simon Rogers, editor of The Guardian's Datablog.

Chaired by Paddy O'Connell, the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House.

Tags for this entry: Events, frontlineclub, Julian Assange, wikileaks

1 Comment

APersonInBerlin IsEnoughInformation | August 12, 2010 12:29 PM

according to our own records as well as some comments received from readers of our medium, this page here was suddenly surprisingly quickly "extremely hard to reach", i.e. was loading for ages, immediately after a link to this page was sent via twitter.

in this period (we called the moment a visible proof of an attack) a comment to this here reached out platform.

it landed on this page here:
http://wikinews030.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/wer-will-den-showdown-usa-sollen-einzelne-lander-in-europa-um-mithilfe-bei-der-ergreifung-von-assange-gebeten-haben-assange-half-kriegsverbrechen-der-usa-ans-tageslicht-zu-holen/#comment-597

(in html, it's:
Click.)

we kindly ask the moderator of this page to publish this comment with the link.

the link was enteres here yesterday, the yesterday's comments are not visible.

we seldom experience such a site behavour (unvisibility of entered comments), so we simply - again - trying to be as patient as possible - repeat the we hope this lines here will get visible, readable and clickable NOT TOMORROW, BUT.

thxalot.
wn030-7