Sylvie, born 1955, is the Executive Editor of Le Monde since 2010. She started her career at Agence France-Presse, serving in Paris, London, Warsaw and Moscow. She joined Le Monde in 1987 as a Moscow correspondent. She then moved to the United States, first as Washington correspondent and then, from 1996 to 2001, as New York Bureau Chief. She also headed the in-depth reporting section of Le Monde. From 2004 to 2006, she held the deputy editor position of the newspaper.
Speaker Summary:
How has WikiLeaks changed our job?
Sylvie Kauffmann, the Editorial Director of Le Monde, talked about the positives and negatives of WikiLeaks and how, a year later, it has altered the journalistic terrain.
Speaking immediately after Assange, she said, “We should wonder how WikiLeaks changed the way we do our job, which in the end our job is bringing news into the open.”
She said, most notably, that Assange succeeded in creating two ideas: the safe drop box and a plan to cooperate with the mainstream media.
However, in her mind, WikiLeaks also had major shortcomings.
“In the end, WikiLeaks failed to protect the whistleblower,” she said.
She also doubted whether or not such a widespread release of private information could happen again, especially since, after WikiLeaks, nearly every government has revamped their security systems.
Speaker Bio:Â Sylvie Kauffmann
Presentation: Kauffmann on the Good and Bad of WikiLeaksÂ
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1/The governments have perhaps revamped their security systems or did they? to this day they haven’t been able to supress even the wikileaks website; as explained by Julian, they cannot be removed; they will always appear, 2/ The fact that it hasn’t protected the whistle blower, this is the same as other journalists- other independant journalists are at risk any time.
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