The most consequential trial against journalism is reaching a critical point as UK courts are set to issue the order to extradite the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to face a 175-year sentence for...
Stefania Maurizi
Il Fatto Quotidiano
Stefania Maurizi is an Italian investigative journalist working for the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, after 14 years working for the Italian newsmagazine l'Espresso and the Italian daily La Repubblica. She has worked on all WikiLeaks releases of secret documents, and partnered with Glenn Greenwald to reveal the Snowden files about Italy. She has also interviewed A.Q. Khan, the father of the Pakistani atomic bomb, revealed the condolence payment agreement between the US government and the family of the Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto killed in a US drone strike, and investigated the harsh working conditions of Pakistani workers in a major Italian garment factory in Karachi. She has started a multijurisdictional FOIA litigation effort to defend the right of the press to access the full set of documents on the Julian Assange and WikiLeaks case.
She has won some major journalistic prizes, such as the European Award Investigative and Judicial Journalism, the Colomba D’Oro of Archivio Disarmo and the Armenise Harvard Fellowship. She is the author of three books: Il Potere Segreto. Perché vogliono distruggere Julian Assange e WikiLeaks (with a preface by the British film director Ken Loach) which will be available in English in 2022; Dossier WikiLeaks. Segreti Italiani (with an introduction by Julian Assange) and Una Bomba, Dieci Storie, the latter translated into Japanese.
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WikiLeaks was born with a very journalistic ideal in mind: bring transparency to the most untransparent organizations in the world. For years, it did just that. And its hacker founder Julian Assange n...
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14 april 2018
The biggest secret. My life as a New York Times reporter in the shadow of the war on terror. #ijf18talk by James Risen
#ijf18talk by James Risen. Moderated by Stefania Maurizi. The Biggest Secret. My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror was published in The Intercept on 3 January 2018....
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has become an important working tool for journalists in all countries where it was introduced, from the US to Britain. Three months after the first Italian FOIA b...
In June 2016, the storm of hacked emails, released by WikiLeaks, hit the US elections. The diffusion and the suspicion that the Democratic National Committee - the governing body of the Democratic Par...
It’s been over two years since the Snowden revelations, and the debate about surveillance, civil liberties, national security and counterterrorism continues. Journalists around the world face impe...
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8 april 2016
From WikiLeaks to Snowden: protecting high-value sources in the age of mass surveillance
Ten years ago, when WikiLeaks was created by Julian Assange, very few people could imagine the revolution unleashed by the publication of documents never seen before, like the Afghan War Logs, or th...