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Den guardian gibt es mit Open Data Schnittstelle. Eventuell der Ausweg der traditionellen Printmedien?

In Großbritannien versucht man ein ähnliches Portal wie MyPage in Norwegen umzusetzen

Numerous media outlets -- The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and NPR, among others - last night published classified files on more than 700 past and present Guantanamo detainees. The leak was originally provided to WikiLeaks, which then gave them to the Post, NPR and others; the NYT and The Guardian claim to have received them from "another source" (WikiLeaks suggested the "other source" was Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a former WikiLeaks associate who WikiLeaks claims took, without authorization, many WikiLeaks files when he left). The documents reveal vast new information about these detainees and, in particular, the shoddy and unreliable nature of the "evidence" used (both before and now) to justify their due-process-free detentions. There are several points worth noting about all this:

The US imagines itself a great democracy, yet most Americans despise its politics. Which is why direct democracy inspires them

Slavoj Žižek: There is no room for compromise. Either the entire Mubarak edifice falls, or the uprising is betrayed

The debt deal will hurt the poorest Americans, convinced by Fox and the Tea Party to act against their own welfare

We have the evidence: the hardpressed US taxpayer is being fleeced by profiteering contractors and corrupt military personnel

Too often associated with mayhem on the streets, for centuries anarchists have actually sought a more ordered society

Arresting a middle-aged writer in an evening gown for peaceable conduct is a far cry from when America was a free republic

Social media is becoming viewed as a relevant part of journalistic research, study reveals.