Others have pointed it out, so I will too:
the first site to break the news of Tim Russert's death was Wikipedia (
snapshot), a half-hour before anyone else. More importantly, for those of us
who work in online media, the edit was made by someone at
Internet Broadcasting, a company I used to work for that produces some NBC sites. I don't know anything else, and have resisted asking.
Anyway, are there things about these businesses policies that prevent them from leaking stuff like that on Wikipedia? If not then the positive side to this is it wakes people up to that necessity.