The Inside Story of WikiLeaks's Latest Bombshell

[image error]The Columbia Journalism Review has a really interesting piece up about WikiLeaks's latest news coup and how it all came to pass. WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, is a famously independent and skittish entity, and has never to my knowledge coordinated with a news organization. So how exactly did three major news publications publish simultaneous in-depth reports using WikiLeaks's information?

Apparently, it wasn't Assange's idea--at least, Assange didn't spearhead it. Nick Davies, a...