Huffington Post
Michael Calderone describes how two groups of U.S. news outlets raced Sunday night to report news of the "Gitmo files," the latest secret document disclosure from WikiLeaks. In one camp were WikiLeaks' partners, The Washington Post and McClatchy, who had agreed to hold their stories until WikiLeaks posted the documents on its site. In the other were The New York Times and NPR, who weren't constrained by the embargo because the Times had gotten the documents elsewhere — again. The Times and NPR, working in concert, planned to publish their stories Sunday night, which appears to have spurred WikiLeaks to suddenly lift its embargo. "All I know is I spent nearly the last month digging through documents and was surprised tonight to learn that the embargo was about to be lifted on two hours notice," Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald told Calderone. First with the story was The Telegraph in the U.K., Calderone says, followed by the Times and NPR and then the Post and McClatchy. || Related: CJR's 2007 article on Al-Jazeera cameraman held at Guantanamo. || Discuss: New York Times journalists answer questions about the documents.

> NYT’s Keller: ‘I don’t regard Julian Assange as a kindred spirit’

Time / Huffington Post
Time has released its list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Julian Assange makes the list as a "muckraker," but Time's public relations folks don't include him on a list of media figures. (Update: A Time rep tells me there are no official categories; she just flagged these names as being of interest.) Here's the list, posted on Huffington Post:

• Oprah Winfrey
• Joe Scarborough
• Arianna Huffington
• Chinese journalist Hu Shuli
• Al-Jazeera English correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin
• Saad Mohseni, co-founder of Afghanistan media company Moby Group
• Hung Huang, Chinese fashion mogul and head of fashion magazine iLook

Business Insider included Assange on its media list, as well as Mark Zuckerberg and Michele Bachmann. Related: Debate over whether WikiLeaks is a media organization doesn't affect its First Amendment protections. || Earlier: CJR calls 2010 "the year of WikiLeaks." || Mild self-promotion: How WikiLeaks is changing the news power structure.