The anatomy of leaks Tracing the path of unauthorized disclosure in the Israeli press

Reich, Zvi

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“…Researchers have studied leaking of this more common type in various Western political systems, including in the USA (Prémon 2010(Prémon , 2012Pozen 2013;Alaimo 2016), the Netherlands (Bovens, Geveke and de Vries 1995;de Jong and de Vries 2007), Israel (Reich 2008), Australia (Flynn 2006(Flynn , 2011, Germany (Spörer-Wagner and Marcinkowski 2010), and the European Union (Patz 2014(Patz , 2016Herrmann 2015). Disciplinary perspectives on leaking range from law (Pozen 2013) and journalism studies (Reich 2008;Reich andBarnov 2016, Flynn 2006) to political science and public administration (Bovens, Geveke and de Vries 1995;de Jong and de Vries 2007;Spörer-Wagner and Marcinkowski 2010;Prémon 2012;Patz 2014), although many contributions on political leaking go across disciplinary boundaries.…”

Section: "By Virtue Of Their Unvarnished Nature Leaks Have Evolved Imentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Disciplinary perspectives on leaking range from law (Pozen 2013) and journalism studies (Reich 2008;Reich andBarnov 2016, Flynn 2006) to political science and public administration (Bovens, Geveke and de Vries 1995;de Jong and de Vries 2007;Spörer-Wagner and Marcinkowski 2010;Prémon 2012;Patz 2014), although many contributions on political leaking go across disciplinary boundaries.…”

Section: "By Virtue Of Their Unvarnished Nature Leaks Have Evolved Imentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet, estimating the real amount of leaks in a given political system is challenging (Reich 2008). Previous research found that between 2.3% and 20% of all news items in the US are based on leaks (Reich and Barnoy 2016: 888).…”

Section: Leaking and Bureaucratic Politics: Theoretical And Empiricalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some argue that leaks are mainly coming from senior officials, those with good access to information, political interests of their own, and regular contact with outside actors (Reich 2008;Pozen 2013: 529-30).…”

Section: Leaking and Bureaucratic Politics: Theoretical And Empiricalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prior research has used various measures to study the frequency of leaks, such as analysing news report, but these and other approaches all have methodological flaws (Reich 2008). I operationalise the frequency of leaks by studying how often the Commission leadership has dealt with leaks at the highest level (in the College) in the past decade and compare this with previous research that has referred to leaks from the Commission.…”

Section: Conjecture 12: Technological Advancement Has Increased the mentioning

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Bureaucratic Politics and the Prevention of Leaks in the European Commission

Patz¹

2017

SSRN Journal

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The European Commission, much like other executives and public administrations in Western Democracies, is frequently faced with leaks. Even though executive leaders often criticize this practice as unwanted breach of confidentiality and secrecy, research has shown that leak prevention is usually not taken seriously beyond public complaints. This paper analyses the phenomenon of leaking in the European Commission and the efforts the Commission makes to prevent leaks from its own ranks. It finds that leaking and leak prevention are regularly discussed at the highest level of the Commission. However, a survey with leak recipients suggest that leaks seem so widely distributed and frequent at various stages of internal decision-making that the existing prevention efforts seem ineffective.Analysing the rules and practices of leak prevention, the paper shows that, while there are anti-leak rules in place, there have been very few cases in which Commission leakers have been administratively sanctioned. The explanation for these observations builds on the argument that leaking is part of regular bureaucratic politics and that leak prevention therefore is not meant to be effective, except for a few important cases.

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Section: "By Virtue Of Their Unvarnished Nature Leaks Have Evolved Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: "By Virtue Of Their Unvarnished Nature Leaks Have Evolved Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Leaking and Bureaucratic Politics: Theoretical And Empiricalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Leaking and Bureaucratic Politics: Theoretical And Empiricalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Conjecture 12: Technological Advancement Has Increased the mentioning

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Bureaucratic Politics and the Prevention of Leaks in the European Commission

Patz¹

2017

SSRN Journal

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Leaks

Hintz¹

2019

The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies

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High‐profile leaks, ranging from WikiLeaks to Snowden and to the Panama Papers, have elevated the leak to a prime position in both the practices and imaginaries of investigative journalism as well as public debate. New forms of leaks journalism and leaks activism have emerged that have not just generated greater opportunities for leakers but involved new actors in the processing of leaks. This has affected the broader media ecology, with new intermediaries engaging with journalistic work and facilitating interactions between sources and a diversity of media organizations. This entry explores the implications of leaks for the transforming media environment and broader social change. Based on a review of the role of leaks in classic forms of journalism, it discusses cases of, and controversies around, major leaks of the past decade and investigates both the importance and the limits of leaking. The entry thereby situates current discussions on leaks platforms and “leaktivism” in established notions of leaking as a journalistic practice.

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A Typology of Digital Leaks as Journalistic Source Materials

Di Salvo

2024

The Palgrave Handbook of Everyday Digital Life

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The anatomy of leaks Tracing the path of unauthorized disclosure in the Israeli press

Cited by 17 publications

References 22 publications

Bureaucratic Politics and the Prevention of Leaks in the European Commission

Bureaucratic Politics and the Prevention of Leaks in the European Commission

Leaks

A Typology of Digital Leaks as Journalistic Source Materials

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