Wikileaks aims to increase pace of disclosure with new media partners
WikiLeaks plans to significantly speed up the release of classified documents once again by partnering with up to 60 additional news outlets.
Julian Assange said on Tuesday that he had already been able to gain around 20 media outlets as new partners in addition to the major international newspapers. This number should triple within the next three months. "We are striving for maximum impact for the material," the Wikileaks founder said in an interview about his future strategies, according to SDA. So far, only 2,658 of the 251,287 documents from American diplomatic circles that Wikileaks claims to possess have been published.
Country-specific forwarding of documents
Assange had recently expressed his disappointment at what he saw as the slow progress of the publications. In the future, Assange therefore plans to disclose documents on a country-specific basis. Cooperations have already been agreed with the Dutch NRC Handelsblad, the Norwegian Aftenposten and Dagens Nyheter in Sweden, among others.
