The modern leak needs a new kind of reporting, and news organisations are adapting by finding collaborations of scale.

"The impact of the NSA files will reverberate for a generation. It has already forced a re-evaluation of the relationship between powerful technology and telephone companies, the government and the consumer. It has raised the issue of digital human rights and how to control a covert surveillance state. It has made the internet potentially unstable and untrustworthy."

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Can Congress make it a crime for journalists to publish classified information? A thorough article by Emily Peterson on threats that face journalists and their industry for the use of classified documents published by whistleblowers.

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