'So is (Julian) Assange really a journalist? The answer in 2019 is a complicated one,' writes Alan Rusbridger for CNNOpinion
Alan Rusbridger was editor in chief of The Guardian from 1995 to 2015. He is the author of"Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.But here in 2019, nothing about Julian Assange is simple.
Who is Julian Assange? 01:39So is Assange really a journalist? The answer in 2019 is a complicated one. New technologies allow millions of people to commit individual acts of journalism. That may not make them"journalists" in a conventional sense, but it does raise the question of whether these journalistic acts deserve the same sort of protection as those carried out by people who have had more traditional careers in journalism.To my mind, Assange is partly a journalist.
'I know nothing about WikiLeaks,' claims Donald Trump 04:18On the basis of the US extradition request to the British government, the charges against Assange are currently rather thin. He is accused of pushing his source, Chelsea Manning, to come up with still more documents around 2010. Well, many journalists might put their hands up and say they've done the same.
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