Abstract
The chapter presents the study’s approach, methodology and goals. Here, the sample and the qualitative approach chosen to analyze whistleblowing platforms are presented. The following research questions are introduced:
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RQ1: How can existing whistleblowing platforms be classified?
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RQ2: How do digital whistleblowing platforms perceive themselves and their work compared to WikiLeaks?
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RQ3: Do digital whistleblowing platforms perceive their work as journalism or activism?
Overall, the study is based on analysis of twenty-one whistleblowing platforms and semi-structured interviews with managers, journalists and editors of the platforms.
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This platform was included nevertheless because it represents a particular case of application of the principle of whistleblowing platforms. Die Zeit was one of the first newspapers to implement such a service (even before GlobaLeaks and SecureDrop were launched) with a system they coded internally and that is still in service.
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Di Salvo, P. (2020). A Study into Whistleblowing Platforms. In: Digital Whistleblowing Platforms in Journalism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38505-7_4
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