Scientific journalism is the practice of including primary sources along with journalistic stories. The concept has been championed by Julian Assange of Wikileaks[1][2] and is inspired by the philosophy of Karl Popper.[3]
The rationale is that where once newspapers were limited in what they could publish by the length of the page, digital technologies provide essentially unbounded capabilities for hosting primary source documents.
The most notable examples are the releases of Wikileaks. Along the same lines is a similar project, Cryptome, which publishes complete secret military and spy documents to the public along with commentary.
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