Quoted: The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric, said Wednesday she could leave her job as anchor of the CBS Evening News well before her contract expires in 2011.
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The Wall Street Journal suggested Couric's next job might be to succeed veteran TV interviewer Larry King at CNN, who is 74 and whose contract with his network expires next year.

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Quoted: The Federal Emergency Management Agency's No. 2 official apologized Friday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions.

Quoted: Dow Jones & Company tentatively agreed to be acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation on Monday.

Journalist friends...you might find this interesting.

Quoted: Embarrassing gaps continue to beset The Times’s online ethics questionnaire, introduced last April to ascertain whether freelancers meet the paper’s fundamental ethical standards.

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Interesting point on online newspapers and charging for content. The net effect of the NYT making Tom Friedman's content available only to Times Select subscribers is that fewer people will read his opinion.

Quoted: I beg the Times to take down the wall for all of their columnists for the next month so that their columnists can take place in the critical debate our country is having about the direction it wants to go in.