WikiLeaks is an international, online, not-for-profit organisation which publishes secret information, news leaks,and classified media from anonymous sources. Its website, initiated during 2006 in Iceland by the organisation Sunshine Press, claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its initiation. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder, editor-in-chief, and director.
Julian Assange
is an Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist. He is best known as the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes submissions of secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous news sources and whistleblowers.
Assange was a hacker-activist in his youth, before becoming a computer programmer and then becoming internationally known for his work with WikiLeaks.He has lived in several countries and has made public appearances around the world to speak about freedom of the press, censorship, and investigative journalism. While on bail in England during 2012, Assange hosted a political talk show The World Tomorrow which was broadcast on the Russian RT TV channel.He has received numerous awards and nominations, including the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award, Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year, the 2011 Sydney Peace Foundation gold medal, and the 2011 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.
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