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November 28, 2011

WikiLeaks Wins Major Australian Journalism Prize 
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The whistleblowing website Wiki Leaks has won a major Australian
journalism prize for its leaking of secret U.S. diplomatic cables. The
judges of the annual Walkley Awards praised the organization by saying,
"Wiki Leaks applied new technology to penetrate the inner workings of
government to reveal an avalanche of inconvenient truths in a global
publishing coup."



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