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June 4, 2013 10:27 am PDT

A small victory for open access: Crowdfunded public stenographers will transcribe Bradley Manningtrial

Over the past month, Freedom of the Press Foundation (I'm on the board) has been crowdfunding money to hire a professional stenographer to provide daily transcripts of the court martial of accused WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning. His court martial started this week and will be very important for the future of journalism, whistleblowers rights and government secrecy—yet, paradoxically, the government refuses to provide public transcripts of the proceedings.



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