Helpful Article Re- Various Leaks Publishers

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At CNN; the excerpt below addresses the very challenging requirements:

1. A site must publish relevant and important leaked information and have the staff to vet it, even if it's a huge amount of data. The dominant aesthetic of sites that publish leaks is text, text and more text, which can dizzy the eye and feel overwhelming. Consider presentation, design. Keep in mind that readers are smart, but they are busy and cannot, probably, read a quarter-million U.S. State Department cables.

2. It has to build and maintain a communication-sharing infrastructure that protects the identity of leakers. That helps establish credibility and makes people less afraid to send information.

3. It has to be ready to pay -- in money and reputation -- for the consequences of leaking. WikiLeaks began having money problems, Assange said, not long after the 2010 published leaks. Assange claimed that various institutions and corporations had hit the site with a financial blockage. The WikiLeaks founder even joked in an online ad about how much it costs to be in the business of leaking, riffing on the classic MasterCard ads:

20 secure phones to assist in staying anonymous -- $5,000
Fighting legal cases across five countries -- $1 million
Upkeep of servers in over 40 countries -- $200,000
Donations lost due to banking blockades -- $15 million
Added cost due to house arrest -- $500,000
Watching the world change as a result of your work -- priceless

Much more at the link, including updates on OpenLeaks and other leaks publishing sites.