25
Oct
the guardian, life now
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2010/aug/13/iraq-war-logs
“Finally after a long run with the Wikeleaks the guardian team did a really impressive job on the Iraq material.
With all the data to read true the main task was to discover “the stories in there, but how on earth could we ever find them? This was the biggest intelligence leak in history. We had it: but for a while it looked as if it might take years to work through.
There followed weeks of painstaking research and checking. And of collaboration between them and the data team and the tech team and the video team and the print team. Between the Guardian and Observer. And between the Guardian and our sister papers and magazines and TV stations who were sharing simultaneous publication.
It was an extraordinary moment on Friday to watch these major news organisations around the world break their versions of the material. I can’t think of a moment in journalism when such a thing has happened.
Sincere thanks to everyone who worked on this important and historic exercise. It’s moments like this that help define what we’re about. ”
Alan Rusbridger
editor-in-chief of Guardian News & Media
Credits: Nick Davies, David Leigh, Ian Katz, Jonathan Steele, Simon Rogers, Gill Phillips, Sean Clarke, Alastair Dant, Stuart MILLAR, Janine GIBSON, Dan Roberts, Rob Evans, Mariana Santos Maggie O’Kane, Harold Frayman, Mike Bracken, Nick Passmore, Matt McAlister, Katharine Viner, Will Woodward, Charlie English, Emily Wilson, Sean Smith, Jacqui Timberlake, Guy Grandjean, Mona Mahmood, Teresa Smith, Paul Webster, John Mulholland, Simon Tisdall.
