Whistleblowing website Wikileaks is back

Whistleblowing website Wikileaks is back . WikiLeaks was left scrambling to keep its website alive after an American domain provider pulled the plug late Thursday forcing the whistleblowing website to create a new Swiss web address just six hours after Wikileaks.org was shutdown.

The site had been forced offline after its US-based service provider, EveryDNS, withdrew support for the site, claiming that repeated distributed denial of service attacks aimed at the Wikileaks site were affecting the web operations of other EveryDNS customers.

Shadowy government agencies around the world are probably scratching their heads this morning, as they try to come up with yet another way of silencing WikiLeaks. The site is showing remarkable resilience. Despite being under constant distributed denial of service attacks that are resulting in intermittent availability.

Wikileaks has simply moved its services to Switzerland, Sweden and France, and remains, for the most part, up and running. The whistleblowing website will hope that moving its operations to Swiss servers will make it more difficult for it to be forced offline.

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The battle

This really is an issue for your editor to deal with. It is up to them how far you do pander to the advertisers but you must work out your own way of dealing with this constant battle.

You will often find that you find an interesting business or entrepreneur to report on only to find sales and advertising reps coming up to you and telling you that you should really be mentioning the cheese shop down the road because they’ve just spent £3000 on advertising. Frustrating.


Always check with your editor first, but a good way of dealing with this is to continue with your article as you were and simply add a fact box at the end including the cheese shop somehow. You could even title the fact box ‘with thanks to’ and then list any advertisers that the sales rep has demanded you include.

This way, you don’t feel like you are cheating your readers into investing time in a piece which is essentially an advert in disguise and you still get to write what you want. And hopefully, it will satisfy the sales staff enough to keep them off your back for a while.

Be firm with advertising and sales staff and don’t always pander to their requests. Readers buy your magazine for the informative and interesting editorial; so don’t cheat them out of this with adverts in disguise.







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