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Abstract
Though stories of WikiLeaks have largely vanished from the pages and screens of the world’s media, the legal, ethical and definitional quandaries raised by the site’s actions during 2010 and 2011 continue to shape popular and scholarly discussion of journalism. This article considers how WikiLeaks—and Cablegate in particular—has shifted the understanding and practice of journalism by synthesizing press discourse and scholarship on WikiLeaks. The author finds that WikiLeaks’ lasting impact on journalism has been on forcing the profession to confront its own definitional crisis; drawing awareness to persistent legal issues facing journalists in the digital age; and in revealing the complexity of global information flows.