Insiders probably already know the Brussels media ecosystem thrives on leaks — and boy, is Brussels a leaky place.
I could hardly contain my excitement when I got to read my first leaked EU policy document a few weeks ago. How naive I was.
Turns out, internal EU Commission documents more often than not find their way into journalists' hands, either because any journalist worth their salt knows someone with access to them, or because they're purposely sent over.
Reasons diff...
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Alejandro Tauber is Publisher of EUobserver. He is Ecuadorian, German, and American, but lives in Amsterdam. His background is in tech and science reporting, and was previously editor at VICE's Motherboard and publisher of TNW.