WikiLeaks Names One-Time Spokesman as Editor-in-Chief

Kristinn Hrafnsson, spokesman for the WikiLeaks organization, listens during a press conference, at the Press Club, in Geneva, Switzerland on Jan. 26, 2015. Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, file

LONDON—WikiLeaks on Sept. 26 named one-time spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson as its new editor-in-chief. The ramifications of the move are unclear.

The organization was founded and has been led for more than a decade by Julian Assange, the 47-year-old ex-hacker. But the silver-haired Australian has been isolated for years at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.