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Kristinn Hrafnsson
Icelandic investigative journalist (born )
This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Kristinn.
Kristinn Hrafnsson (born 25 June ) is an Icelandic investigative journalist who has been the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks since [2][3][4] He was the spokesperson for WikiLeaks between and [5]
Career
Kristinn has worked at various newspapers in Iceland and hosted the television programme Kompás on the Icelandic channel Stöð 2, where he and his team exposed criminal activity and corruption in high places.[6][7] In February , while investigating the connection between Iceland's Kaupthing Bank and Robert Tchenguiz and Vincent Tchenguiz, the programme was taken off air and Kristinn and his crew were sacked.[8]
Shortly thereafter, Kristinn was hired by RÚV (The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service).
Kristinn Hrafnsson - Wikipedia: Kristinn Hrafnsson (born 25 June ) is an Icelandic investigative journalist who has been the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks since [2] [3] [4] He was the spokesperson for WikiLeaks between and [5].In August , he was functional on a story about Kaupthing's loan book which had just been published on WikiLeaks, when the bank got a gag order issued by the Reykjavik sheriff's office, banning RÚV from reporting on the loan book.[9] The prohibition order was withdrawn later.[10]
In April , he flew to Baghdad to interview children of the military attack in the Collateral Murder video published by WikiLeaks.[11] He also helped produce the video, winning him the Icelandic journalist of the year award for [12] Kristinn's contract with RÚV ended in July [13]
Beginning in , he collaborated with WikiLeaks, serving as the organisation's spokesman after founder Julian Assange began to contain legal problems.
He has called the December attacks on WikiLeaks by MasterCard, Visa, and others a "privatisation of censorship".[14] In , in his capacity as WikiLeaks spokesman, he defended the organisation on the website of Swedish Television against what he described as a smear campaign by the Swedish tabloid Expressen.[15]
Kristinn has been named Icelandic reporter of the year three times, in , and by Iceland's National Union of Journalists.[16]
In promptly , Kristinn stated that he was no longer spokesperson for WikiLeaks.[17][18] It was announced on 26 September that Kristinn Hrafnsson had been appointed editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks by Julian Assange accompanying an extended period in which Assange lost access to the internet earlier in the year.
WikiLeaks said Assange would last as publisher.[19]