WIKILEAKS:Resources relating to Media and Democracy at A2.

Wikileaks is a website designed to protect whistleblowers, activists and journalists who have sensitive material that they wish to share with the public.It was propelled into the mainstream media in April 2009 when it published a video of a US helicopter attack in July 2007 which killed Iraqi civilians and two Reuters personnel, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen.

Click on link below to access The Guardian interview with Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. Note the readers' response to the article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/14/julian-assange-whistleblower-wikileaks

Click on link to access WIKILEAKS:

http://wikileaks.org
/wiki/WikiLeaks:About

Click on link below to access BBC news article relating to US helicopter video being published via Wikileaks:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8603938.stm

Click on link below to access BBC profile: WHO ARE WIKILEAKS?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8605055.stm

YOU TUBE clips relating to Wikileaks. Click on links below.

Assange answers question 'Is Wikileaks Biased?':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBENlJfZ-f8&feature=fvst

Clip from Assange's Russia Today interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QEdAykXxoM&feature=related

YOU TUBE contains a great deal of archive material that relates to the existence and aims of Wikileaks. I would advise the student/teacher to conduct their own navigation of material having synthesised the resources above.