#jpod in depth: How some news outlets are going it alone in the world of WikiLeaks

In this week's #jpod news editor Rachel McAthy looks at the issue of document leaks in light of WikiLeak's announcement earlier this week that the "financial blockade" has forced it to temporarily suspend publishing operations. At the beginning of the year news outlets started to launch their own internal WikiLeaks-style platforms to enable anonymous submissions.

In this podcast we speak to the head of Al Jazeera's Transparency Unit Clayton Swisher about the broadcaster's decision to set up the platform and how it is to re-launch in the 'coming weeks', and El Pais journalist Joseba Elola about why he values a relationship with WikiLeaks and the difficulties of going it alone.



You can also hear more about OpenLeaks (referred to in the podcast) in the below audio, in an interview with co-founder Daniel Domscheit-Berg who spoke to Journalism.co.uk at the World Editors Forum in Vienna earlier this month:



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