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NY Times considers creating an ‘EZ Pass lane for leakers’ | Yahoo! News By Michael Calderone “The New York Times is considering options to create an in-house submission system that could make it easier for would-be leakers to provide large files to the paper. Executive editor Bill Keller told The Cutlinethat he couldn’t go into details, “especially since nothing is nailed down.” But when asked if he could envision a system like Al Jazeera’s  Transparency Unit, Keller said the paper has been “looking at something along those lines.”“ “Like WikiLeaks, the Al Jazeera Transparency Unit allows users to submit files through an encrypted system that does not record any of their personal information. Al Jazeera launched the initiative earlier this month, but it’s been getting a lot more attention since the network began reporting Sunday on more than 1,700 classified files in the network’s possession, part of the biggest classified leak related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The New Yorker’s Raffi Khatchadourian — who profiled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange before theAfghanistan, Iraq and State Dept. megaleaks — asked Monday whether Al Jazeera had ”taken the first step in a journalism arms race to begin acquiring mass document leaks.”“

NY Times considers creating an ‘EZ Pass lane for leakers’ | Yahoo! News

By Michael Calderone

“The New York Times is considering options to create an in-house submission system that could make it easier for would-be leakers to provide large files to the paper.

Executive editor Bill Keller told The Cutlinethat he couldn’t go into details, “especially since nothing is nailed down.” But when asked if he could envision a system like Al Jazeera’s  Transparency Unit, Keller said the paper has been “looking at something along those lines.”“

“Like WikiLeaks, the Al Jazeera Transparency Unit allows users to submit files through an encrypted system that does not record any of their personal information. Al Jazeera launched the initiative earlier this month, but it’s been getting a lot more attention since the network began reporting Sunday on more than 1,700 classified files in the network’s possession, part of the biggest classified leak related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The New Yorker’s Raffi Khatchadourian — who profiled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange before theAfghanistan, Iraq and State Dept. megaleaks — asked Monday whether Al Jazeera had ”taken the first step in a journalism arms race to begin acquiring mass document leaks.”“