Bill Keller on Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and New York Times e-Book

As The New York Times publishes its first e-book, Editor Bill Keller tells Howard Kurtz how exasperating it was to deal with the WikiLeaks founder—and why he’s launching his own column.

Howard Kurtz

Published Jan. 26 2011 8:30AM EST

articles/2011/01/26/bill-keller-on-julian-assange-wikileaks-and-new-york-times-e-book/kurtz-nyt-ebook-keller_155675_bphfln — The January 30 issue of the New York Times Magazine featuring Julian Assange on the cover.,rbrown

Bill Keller, who led The New York Times through its rocky dealings with WikiLeaks, came to regard founder Julian Assange as undeniably smart “but arrogant, thin-skinned, conspiratorial and oddly credulous.”

That was the staff’s conclusion, the executive editor writes in the introduction to a forthcoming e-book about WikiLeaks—the first ever published...

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Bill Keller on Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and New York Times e-Book

As The New York Times publishes its first e-book, Editor Bill Keller tells Howard Kurtz how exasperating it was to deal with the WikiLeaks founder—and why he’s launching his own column.

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Howard Kurtz