Life of an editorial staff after Wikileaks
“Undoubtedly, it is an extraordinary situation: throughout its history our editorial office has never managed more than 250,000 documents at the same time” Andrea Rizzi is an international news reporter for El Pais and a member of the “task force” which has been set up by the Spanish newspaper to work on Wikileaks database. During our conversation he sketches out his experience in the project, the solutions the newspaper has adopted to manage it and the questions about the functioning of traditional media the leaks have raised. “When few weeks before its launch (end November, editor’s note) thirty of us were called by the editorship for a private meeting,” Rizzi explains “nobody knew the subject of the meeting. We were just told that a few days before the executive editor had received the whole – in full and not structured – database, and that soon we would start to work on it together with some foreign partners”.
