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Newsday It could be announced as early as Monday. "Cablevision appears to have won" with its $650 million bid, says one source. Another says it's unclear whether New York Daily News owner Mort...

Newsday Rupert Murdoch's News Corp says it's unable to justify outbidding Cablevision's $650 million offer from an economic perspective. "News Corp's decision to walk away from Newsday...

Romenesko Letters The authors of a Slate piece titled "Stealth Marketers" wondered if doctors were shilling for drug companies on an episode of The Infinite Mind called "Prozac Nation: Revisited" on...

VanityFair.com Buzz Bissinger continues to discuss his tirade on Bob Costas' show last week, and how he feels about it now. "My apology is for the manner in which I expressed myself. I still...

> Only NYT, LAT and a few others are getting info from Myanmar (LAT) > Miami Herald's Merzer takes buyout; joined the paper in '79 (BPBNT) > Sacramento Bee business editor Anderson named...

Romenesko Misc. Loretta Tofani receives the award for her series on unsafe working conditions in China. The judges said Tofani's four-part series "is a tribute to her persistence, resourcefulness,...

USA Today Federal appeals court judges questioned Friday whether former Army scientist Steve Hatfill really needs the names of Toni Locy's sources since his attorneys have asked for a trial date...

McGuire on Media Yes, some are dying, says former Star Tribune editor Tim McGuire, and "the next several months will likely bring several to the brink of death and some might die. At the same time...

St. Petersburg Times Floridian, the daily features section, will publish just on Sundays, while the business section will merge with the B section metro news in a new section. The fact that the St....

TV Newser Fox News production assistant Jennifer Locke told John McCain at last night's Time 100 party that "I voted for you in the primary, you're going to win." Locke, whose remark was recorded...

NYTimes.com Tim Bearden, who graduates from college next year, throws that question to New York Times AME Susan Edgerley. "Yes, the Internet is where the industry is going, and no, I don't think...

Editor & Publisher The San Diego Union Tribune's statement doesn't indicate if Chris Jennewein was fired or left on his own. The paper says it's making changes to its online unit's...

Weekly Standard At the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, "the usual administration and chat-show hacks who pass for celebrities in D.C. now have to contend with those of the Hollywood...

PBS.org One viewer writes to Michael Getler: "When [Bill Moyers'] show was over, the public had been deceived as to the character and personality of Rev. Wright. Two days later we saw...

Toronto Star "When we use more than a fair use of a headline or a snippet, we will license that content," says Google News business project manager Josh Cohen. Why not go into content creation? he's...

New York Observer Rupert Murdoch was saying a few days ago that he would win Newsday, but now he concedes that "I might have gone a little too far saying it was a certainty." John Koblin asked...

New York Post Keith J. Kelly has the seating chart for the black-tie event. He writes: "Despite its name, Table 1 is not necessarily considered the ultimate power table - even if James Bell,...

Women's Wear Daily A spokeswoman says the positions will eventually be refilled with hires possessing a "new skill set." ALSO: Conde Nast shuffles several business side executives to new roles.

Chicago Tribune The imagery in a Chicago Tribune Eight Belles/Hillary Clinton editorial made public editor Timothy McNulty queasy. He writes: "Notwithstanding the playful, even clever, writing of...

The New Republic "We're a six to seven on a scale of ten," WSJ publisher Robert Thomson recently told staffers. Gabriel Sherman says in recent weeks, a rough portrait of Rupert Murdoch's Journal has...