Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

[The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even mentioning that Ecuador made a formal assessment through its formal processes and found that yes, I am subject to persecution by the United States.

True information does good.

I made an asylum application to Ecuador in this embassy, because of the U.S. extradition case, and the result was that after a month, I was successful in my asylum application. The embassy since then has been surrounded by police: quite an expensive police operation which the British government admits to spending more than £12.6 million.