On WikiLeaks, Journalism, and Privacy: Reporting on the Podesta Archive Is an Easy Call

For years, WikiLeaks has been publishing massive troves of documents online— usuallytaken without authorization from powerful institutions and then given to the group to publish — while news outlets report on their relevant content. In some instances,these news outlets work in direct partnership with WikiLeaks — as the New York Times and The Guardian, among others, did when jointly publishing the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and U.S. diplomatic cables — while other times media outlets simply...