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The doyens of the mainstream media were the ones flirting with danger over Wikileaks material, not the site itself, Kristinn Hrafnsson reveals. Bernard Keane and Matthew Knott report.

Assange slammed what he implied was a series of snobbish class judgments in The Guardian’s treatment of the phone-hacking scandal, which has centred on “red top” tabloid the News of the World.

Trawling through The Guardian’s website one afternoon, Laura Griffin found a series called “Experience”, where people are invited to share their unique (read: weird, and often wonderful) stories. It’s a kaleidescope of human experience.

It pays to be careful what you allow to be filmed in an interview if you want to remain secret.

Julian Assange now has another reason to believe The Guardian is part of a Jewish conspiracy to damage both him and WikiLeaks, reports Richard Farmer.

With five days to go until WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange appears in a UK court for a hearing on extradition to Sweden, Crikey has obtained a copy of the full police report of the allegations against him.

In the latest WikiLeaks US embassy cables dump, a variety of news organisations — think Le Monde, the NY Times, The Guardian etc — all got first dibs on the documents. The Wall Street Journal declined the offer. Here’s why.

Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian gave this year’s prestigious Andrew Olle Lecture. He spoke about the splintering of the Fourth Estate, how the media is currently experiencing its own vicious case of “the bends”, which will be the end of the media as we know it.

For the first time, WikiLeaks actually leaked its Afghan War Diary to major news sources — The Guardian, NY Times etc — in advance, so as to maximise media coverage. CJR explains how the deal was done.

The Guardian indulges in some “local girl comes good!” reporting of Australia’s new PM Julia Gillard, even having a chat to her Aunt Mildred about a lost teddy bear.

The Guardian’s editorial is an ode to Malcolm Fraser quitting the Libs, calling him “a force for moderate good sense” and noting that dull leaders can make fine national elders.

The UK’s Guardian appears to be crowdsourcing everything these days, but it has gone one step further: giving readers a say in its election lead line. Go inside the ensuing editorial meeting for a rare peek at how the news narrative is created.

Today, the UK Office of Fair Trading said that it will not investigate the proposed takeover of The Independent newspaper by Alexander Lebedev, billionaire and former global economics operative for the KGB, writes Guy Rundle.

The Guardian is taking crowd-sourcing to a new level: publishing the manuscript for its new book about the hacked climate change emails and asking readers to help write, edit and “peer review” the tome. Great idea or total gimmick?

As News Ltd boasts unironically of its “new era of profitability” for its clunky websites, The Guardian has just upped the pace, with the launch of its new “zeitgeist” interface.

Every January, Crikey pres over the AEC’s annual political donations data to see what we can dig up. This year, we want your help.

The IPCC faced a fresh round of criticism in the British media over the weekend, with revelations of more spurious sources and that its chief, Rajendra Pachauri, may have known about the false claims before Copenhagen.

Apple has promised to transform the reading of newspapers and periodicals, but exactly how remains under wraps. Will the company’s new i-thingy and its competitors really change the game?

It wasn’t that The Age dropped their plans to run the climate change editorial published by 56 newspapers across the world, it always was going to write its own localised editorial, says editor-in-chief Paul Ramadge.

As Copenhagen kicks off today, Crikey will be arguing over the politics and the approach on climate change. But there’s no arguing with the fact that climate change presents an unprecedented challenge to every single nation on earth.