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• TVNewser: Everyone on TV is still making fun of Sarah Palin writing on her hand. Especially Robert Gibbs.

• The New York Times: Tonight marks Jay Leno's departure from prime-time.

• FishbowlDC: Esquire lit into Bill Kristol...but were they serious or just taking the piss?

• The Boston Phoenix: Want to know why you've never heard of The Boston Phoenix? Because The New York Times keeps poaching all their talent.

• TheWrap: Google unleashed new social network Buzz today, disses Yahoo.

Rupert Murdoch's British paper News Of The World is being hit by a lawsuit from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's lawyers after the tabloid claimed the couple was headed toward splitsville.

Last month NOTW posted an item saying that the couple had visited a divorce lawyer and were looking into how to split up custody of their six children. Now the duo is going to the high court in London to take action against News Group Newspapers (part of News International) for their handling of the story, which the firm taking the celebrities' case said "was false as well as intrusive." News Of The World has refused to retract the story.

Read More: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie sue the News of the World -- The Guardian

The inaugural Cross Media NYC conference hits the city in March with the goal of helping media folks effectively package content across platforms, like gaming, the Web, mobile apps, and video. HollywoodLife.com's Bonnie Fuller, Alistair C. Mitchell of Research In Motion Limited (the folks responsible for your Blackberry performance), and Jeff Gomez, CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, have all been confirmed as speakers. Gomez is the man behind Coca-Cola's music-oriented Happiness Factory campaign.

Wait. "Open Happiness" was co-written by Cee-Lo, remixed by Polow Da Don, and features Janelle Monae and Travis McCoy? Why am I just now hearing about this? (Oops! Forgot I had DVR. No commercials.)

Cross Media NYC happens March 10 at Scholastic Theater. Read the full release after the jump.

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SPOT ON media and LIVESTRONG are joining together in the fight to battle cancer with LIVESTRONG Quarterly, a new online, print, and print-on-demand publication that highlights individuals battling with cancer, support groups for the disease, as well as cancer resources. LIVESTRONG is part of the Lance Armstrong Foundation for cancer support. The first issue features swimmer Eric Shanteau's heartfelt story about his diagnosis right before he reached the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Co-sponsored by the Mayo Clinic and Genentech BioOncology. Editor Curtis Pesman comes to LIVESTRONG after working at Esquire and as an editor at SELF magazine. He is also a cancer survivor himself.

Read the full press release after the jump.

Read More: LIVESTRONG Website

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The Minneapolis Star Tribune has lost approximately half its workforce since 2007: going from 2,000 to 1,000 employees due to circulation decreases, budget cuts, and all those other pesky recessionary reasons that papers are folding or cutting back severely these days. Yet the Star Tribune has been incredibly vocal in the coverage of its own dwindling workforce, and has already created several grassroots initiatives to try to salvage what is left of their paper.

The most recent tactic involved employees taking out an ad in their own paper, honoring their corworkers who have been thinned from their ranks. The copy ran today, and was funded entirely by Star Tribune employees.

See full page ad, after the jump.

Read More: The Star Tribune newsroom's 'Thank You' ad -- Minneapolis Post

Previously: Journos Attempt to Save Minneapolis Star Tribune
, Latest Newspaper Circ Numbers Show Ten Percent Drop

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With the recession and layoffs dominating media conversations, it's easy to forget about the people who are unhappily employed. You know who you are. Your co-worker just got canned, but instead of consoling, you want to scream, "Take me with you!"

Don't worry, young grasshopper. Even Jay Lauf, publisher and vice president of The Atlantic, has been there.

"I started out in the trade magazine realm for many, many years and was a group publisher at a group of small gift trade magazines," he told mediabistro.com. "I wanted to take a step out and jumped onto a company that I didn't investigate very carefully, a privately held company. It wasn't a great fit for me... after about six months, I realized it was the wrong thing, and it was a hard thing to reconcile."

So did Lauf stay for the 401K or bounce quicker than Jenny Sanford? Find out in mediabistro.com's new One Minute Mentor series for AvantGuild members.

Tell us your thoughts. Have you ever taken (or left) a gig only to regret it?

Gerald Posner, an investigative journalist and contributor to Tina Brown's The Daily Beast (not to mention a frequent guest on MSNBC's Hardball), has admitted to plagiarizing a juicy celebrity death story straight from the pages of The Miami Herald. Jack Shafer at Slate was the first one to notice the...well...lack of discrepancy. Here's Posner's article on Fontainebleau heir Ben Novak and his suspicious death for The Daily Beast on February 4th:

There is little doubt the Novacks had a volatile relationship. In 2002, 11 years into their marriage, Narcy and two others tied Ben Jr. to a chair, threatened to kill him and took money from his safe, according to the police report filed at the time.

"If I can't have you, no one else will," she told him, according to a divorce petition Ben Jr. filed and then dropped.

Narcy told police investigators at the time that the entire episode was part of a sex game. And she also showed them porno snapshots of women with artificial limbs having sex, claiming her husband had a fetish for them.

And here is the Herald article, written by Julie Brown only two days before:

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Yesterday was all doom and gloom for the future of print over at The New York Times, which reported an average newsstand loss in the magazine industry of 9.1 percent and an overall circulation decline of 2.2 percent from the previous year. While we floated the idea that some of the publishers that actually showed gains (Rodale and Meredith) operated in a niche market for customers, there might be even better news over at AdAge, where Nat Ives pointed out that the individual sale losses have actually slowed down in the past year. Big sellers like Cosmopolitan and Us Weekly either slowed down their decline to the single digits, or actually improved their single-copy sales, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. So what's the logic behind the market? Why did Us Weekly gain 1 percent in sales while In Touch plummeted over 10 percent? And what can cause a magazine to do fare better in subscription form than single-issue, like Woman's Day?

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• Here's your Sarah Palin highlight reel, addressing the Tea Party convention, with a bunch of stuff written on her hand.

• WTOP.COM: Nicolas B. Tatro named Deputy International News Editor of Associated Press

• AdAge: Only Professor Moneybags can afford to support the news industry.

• Mediaite: Megan McCain knows exactly what is wrong with Sarah Palin, as do the rest of us.

Last week we reported how the trend of "reverse-publishing" was catching on at Meredith and Hearst, where the publishing companies were taking online recipes and putting them into "blogazine" format in print. Apparently, when Time Inc. tries something similar, its considered self-plagiarism, instead of just "crowdsourcing."

Consider the recent New York Times article on Time's Health, which re-used some of the recipes from the publisher's other magazine, Real Simple. The same recipes were used, along with the original photography, although nutritional info was added. Health editor Ellen Kunes credited Real Simple as Health's source, and said that the articles weren't free, since they had to be retested and slightly altered to fit Health's standards. If the original source -- again, managed by the same publisher -- is cited, is this different than the content partnerships we see online, like those between Business Insider and Gawker?

Read More: For New and Healthy Recipes, a Magazine Turns to Leftovers -- New York Times

Previously: "Reverse Publishing" Gains Traction at Meredith, Hearst

According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, as quoted in The New York Times today, newsstand sales for magazines dropped 9.1 percent last year, with overall subscriptions 2.23 percent. Popular individual titles fell anywhere from 41 percent (W magazine) to 30 percent (Good Housekeeping).

But this isn't all bad news: the titles that have done well in the past year, that have actually seen increases, are niche titles like Off-Road Adventures, which saw a 483 percent increase in circulation, and Rodale titles like Men's and Women's Health. One reason for this is that these types of print publications cater to a specific die-hard fan that may not be as willing to trade on free content.

Read More: Magazines' Newsstand Sales Fall 9.1 Percent -- New York Times