The Awl, April 14, 2011
By Katjusa Cisar

Cheers of "Hear, hear!" rippled through the crowd after Salon writer Glenn Greenwald argued that "what WikiLeaks is doing is what journalism is all about." Greenwald spoke at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston, where he took part in a standing-room-only panel discussion of WikiLeaks with Emily Bell of Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Greg Mitchell of The Nation, Australian journalist Christopher Warren and Micah Sifry of Personal Democracy Forum.

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