The previous rounds of WikiLeaks releases have been as interesting for what newspapers the organization didn’t work with as for the ones it did.

Throughout most of Sunday, it appeared that the list of newspapers that had advance access to this data dump was similar to the last one – New York Times, Der Spiegel, and The Guardian – with the addition of Le Monde and El Pais. (A great tick-tock of this process was put together by CJR’s Clint Hendler following the Iraq War Logs release back in July.)

But Michael Calderone reports at The Cutline that the New York Times was left out of the initial round of access this time around, and ended up getting access from The Guardian. The Times says in a note accompanying its stories that it got the leaks from a source that wished to remain anonymous.

The reason is still unclear, but Calderone points out that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was not a fan of John Burns’s October profile of him.

The Washington Post -- which was left off the shortlist for the July release because, Assange told Forbes, the Post had used thin sourcing in a story saying WikiLeaks had been compared to “Baghdad Bob” -- was left out of this round as well.