I will certainly be cheering, as I assume we all will, for victory for Alan Rusbridger's vision of a no-paywall cyber-newspaper that still sends journalists out into the world and that takes culture and society seriously, and that talks up to its readers rather than down to them.
In Washington, Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman for the State Department, "rejected the idea that such an incident would represent double standards given recent U.S. criticism of Chinese cyber attacks," according to The Guardian newspaper, which has led the reporting of Mr. Snowden's leaks.
The notion — government spies in a newspaper office supervising cyber-censorship — seemed inconceivable to some Britons, their actions likened by the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins to "book burners sent by the Spanish Inquisition".
In January, the New York Times said it had been subject to cyber attacks from China, following the newspaper's report on the wealth of outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao's family.
Since then the two countries have struck a long-stalled gas deal and, according to Kommersant, a Russian newspaper, a pact on cyber-security.
A schoolboy arrested following the TalkTalk cyber attack is suing three national newspapers for alleged breach of privacy, according to an RTE report, also carried in the Irish Independent.
Van de Leest contacted police and newspapers and an extensive cyber network to get the word out about her missing friend at #ArjenKamphuis and #FindArjen.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said it had "on occasion been the target of cyber attacks", following a report in an Australian newspaper.
Across the world now, anonymity – the bane of every newspaper Letters Editor – is accepted by cyber-journalism, the more hateful, the more understandable.
Stunningly, the paper is still being peddled at every demonstration to young cyber-activists for whom the very concept of a newspaper is almost as outdated as the notion of ideological unity as a basis for action.
On January 2013 several newspapers of United States announced they had received cyber attacks: The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, revealed they have suffered cyber attacks and suspected the involvement of Chinese hackers.
