Wikileaks?

Haven't really taken to this blogging malarkey, have I? Oops.

Read an interesting article in The Guardian on Saturday about Wikileaks where whistleblowers are able to leak official documents while retaining their anonymity.

When Northern Rock went under last year - the press were gagged. Wikileaks had the entire sales prospectus viewable to the public as well as a couple of very interesting letters from British lawyers, Schillings.

However, a recent injunction against the site - or more specifically the company used to register it's domain name has seen the wikileaks.org page fall. The site can still be found via a search engine and still has a vast collection of official documents available for perusal - including a briefing forTony Blair's famous 2002 meeting about NHS IT funding. The site could cause considerable impact on my politics patch if it continues.

Thinking with regards to our presentation in a couple of weeks, it's digital technology like this that is making the newsroom a totally different place. Using Wikileaks as a source for stories may on the face of it, sound somewhat shady - but as journalism develops reporters must cast their net much further in an attempt to catch a good scoop.