Why The New York Times Is Too Late

Stefania Maurizi explains why the support Julian Assange recently received from The NY Times is 12 years late.

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Stefania Maurizi is an Italian investigative journalist working for the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, after 14 years working for the Italian newsmagazine l'Espresso and the Italian daily La Repubblica. She has worked on all WikiLeaks releases of secret documents since 2009. She is also the only journalist who has conducted multi-jurisdictional litigation to defend the right of the press to access the full documentation on Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks journalists. In addition to her work on WikiLeaks, she has partnered with Glenn Greenwald to reveal the Snowden files about Italy. She has also interviewed A.Q. Khan, the father of the Pakistani atomic bomb, revealed the condolence payment agreement between the US government and the family of Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto, killed in a US drone strike, and investigated the harsh working conditions of Pakistani workers in a major Italian garment factory in Karachi. In her book "Secret Power. WikiLeaks and Its Enemies" (Pluto Press, foreword by Ken Loach), she reconstructs the Assange and WikiLeaks case based on her over ten years of investigative journalism. The Italian version of her book has won two major journalistic prizes: the European Award for Investigative and Judicial Journalism, and the 2022 Premio Alessandro Leogrande for investigative journalism in narrative form. Stefania has won a number of other major journalistic prizes, including the Armenise Harvard Fellowship and the Colomba D’Oro Award conferred by Archivio Disarmo.

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