Intercept creator thought to be the reporter leaked to in unsealed indictment of Hale.
"While employed as a cleared defense contractor for NGA, Hale printed from his Top Secret computer 36 documents, including 23 documents unrelated to his work at NGA. Of the 23 documents unrelated to his work at NGA, Hale provided at least 17 to the reporter and/or the reporter's online news outlet, which published the documents in whole or in part. Eleven of the published documents were marked as Top Secret or Secret."
The indictment does not identify the reporter by name. But it says the reporter made a documentary about the U.S. military's use of drones, and was a scheduled speaker at "a Washington, D.C. restaurant/bookstore" on or about April 29, 2013.
Those details point to Jeremy Scahill, a founding editor of The Intercept and former reporter for The Nation who wrote the book Dirty Wars, and produced a documentary of the same name, about U.S. drone campaigns and operations in Afghanistan and other countries. On the evening of April 29, 2013, Scahill was the featured speaker at the Busboys and Poets bookstore in Washington. The Intercept also published lengthy investigative stories about America's drone programs on specific dates mentioned in the indictment.
The Intercept has not confirmed whether it is the news outlet in question, or whether Scahill is the reporter mentioned. But the organization issued a statement about the charges against the "alleged drone strike whistleblower" shortly after news of Hale's arrest emerged.
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/09/721737050/u-s-charges-former-intelligence-analyst-with-leaking-classified-data-to-reporter