The Afghanistan Document Release—How Does It Affect Investigative Journalism?

The release by the website WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of secret U-S military reports on the war in Afghanistan shows how the Internet has changed the rules of traditional journalism. So says University of Illinois Professor Brant Houston, who holds the Knight Chair in Investigate and Enterprise Reporting at the Department of Journalism. The documents were first reported by the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel --- but now anyone can read them on the WikiLeaks website. Illinois Public Media's Jim Meadows spoke with Houston, and asked him what this sort of release of information means for the news media.