Law and Disorder: Wikileaks and the Future of Information Freedom

Call Number
206-3-1:19/1

General information

Call No.:
206-3-1:19/1
Part of series
HU OSA 206-3-1 Records of the Open Society Archives at Central European University: Public Events: Audiovisual Recordings of Public Events
Located at
DVD-ROM #19 / No. 1
Date of production
2011-03-29
Date
2011
Level
Item
Primary Type
Moving image
Language
English
Duration
1 hour 54 min.

Content

Form/Genre
Raw material
Contents Summary
David McCraw,Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of The New York Times Company, delivered a lecture on the collaboration between Wikileaks and mainstream publishers like The New York Times. He discussed how The Times dealt with the legal and journalistic uncertainties that the paper faced when it received the Wikileaks documents and where US law and journalism are headed in the wake of the Wikileaks revolution. OSA Director István Rév and Chief Archivist Csaba Szilagyi introduced the OSA Leaks project in conjunction with the lecture.