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How Wiḱileaks collaborates with major media outlets

author: www-data

Nice article on the collaboration between Wikileaks and major media houses, like Spiegel, Guardian, New York Times, El Pais and Le Monde. The most interesting aspect is that Wikileaks is not acting wild and releasing information piece by piece to the media, but instead media representatives get access to ALL the information, and then work together with Wikileaks in order to decide what to release and what not, and to redact information believed to be too sensitive:

"They are releasing the documents we selected," Le Monde's managing editor, Sylvie Kauffmann, said in an interview at the newspaper's Paris headquarters.
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They [the media outlets] also have been advising WikiLeaks on which documents to release publicly and what redactions to make to those documents, Kauffmann and others involved in the arrangement said.

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