HEY! 36: Robert Rosenthal of Center for Investigative Reporting @cironline on WikiLeaks vs. Pentagon Papers

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Robert J. Rosenthal is the executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting. He is the former editor of both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Early in his career, shortly after being hired as a copy boy at the New York Times, Rosenthal was tasked with photocopying the Pentagon Papers in secret. The Pentagon Papers, thousands of internal documents about the then-ongoing Vietnam War, went on to be known as perhaps the most famous leak in U.S. government history, and both a landmark legal case and Pulitzer Prize-winning story.

Recently WikiLeaks exposed more than 250,000 State Department documents, and I asked Robert to compare the two situations and stories from a journalistic standpoint.

Find out more about The Center for Investigative Reporting at CenterForInvestigativeReporting.org and on Twitter @cironline.

Host: Dane Golden, @danegolden

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Running time: 38:02