is an international, online, self-described
not-for-profit organisation publishing
submissions of private, secret, and
classified media from anonymous news
sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers.
Its website, launched in 2006 under the
Sunshine Press organisation, claimed a
database of more than 1.2 million
documents within a year of its launch.
Julian Assange, an Australian Internet
activist, is generally described as its
founder, editor-in-chief, and director.