How are the five news organizations releasing the cables?
Le Monde hosts an application, developed in conjunction with Linkfluence, which host the searchable text of several hundred cables. The text can be searched by the sender (either country of origin, office or official), date range, persons of interest cited in the docs, classification status, or any combination of the above. Only the untranslated, English text of the cables can be accessed and there is no cut-and-paste available. El Pais offers access to over 200 cables, available in the orginal English or in Spanish translation, searchable by country of origin and key terms and subjects (such as “Google and China”). These searches also return El Pais articles written on a given subject (often places ahead of the cables in the search listings). They also offer a “How to read a diplomatic cable” feature, explaining what all the abbreviations and and technical verbage mean in plainspeak, posted on 28 November 2010. The Guardian offers the cable data in several forms: they have performed a
