WikiLeaks wins Aussie Journalism Awards Australia’s most prestigious award for excellence in journalism. Walkley Foundation awarded its highest distinction for “Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism” WikiLeaks applied new technology to penetrate the inner workings of government to reveal an avalanche of inconvenient truths in a global publishing coup. U.S. politicians like Dianne Feinstein plotted to prosecute WikiLeaks for its journalism and Joe Lieberman demanded that private corporations cut off all funds to the group. Meanwhile, the Obama administration while parading around the world as defenders of Internet freedom and a free press harassed its supporters.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2011/11/wikileaks-wins-aussie-journalism-awards.html