An NBC release announced that "Meet The Press with Tim Russert" "topped the Sunday morning public affairs competition, winning the week ending Sunday, April 15, 2007 in total viewers, homes and in the key demographic adults 25-54." The show attracted 4.305 million total viewers, 32% more than CBS's "Face the Nation," a 51% advantage over ABC's "This Week" and a 208% lead over FOX "News Sunday."
Bloomberg reports, "Gannett, NY Times Profits Decline as Ad Spending Slumps"
Hollywood Reporter reports, "Hollywood continues to be a major financier of the nation's presidential campaigns, handing out $2.4 million to White House hopefuls during this election cycle."
DCRTV hears that Radio America is headed for new digs in the Ballston section of Arlington. The syndicator of G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan, "Car And Driver," and other talk shows is closing up its downtown DC shop at 15th and L Streets in favor of a new all-digital plant at the CACI Building on Glebe Road, behind the Marymount University building. The new facility should be online before Memorial Day.....
On April 22, Blog Talk Radio will host a live political debate between Rip Sullivan and Margi Vanderhye, candidates for the Democratic nomination in the 34th House of Delegates District, marking the first live, online political debate to allow real-time interaction between candidates and voters.
"The Associated Press has launched a weblog aimed at younger audiences. Far And Wide provides signposts to the news stories flying across the AP's global news wires, from the agency staff's own perspective."
One Economy Corporation is looking for a Copy Editor.
HealthCentral.com is looking for a Web content producer.
His Extremeness is "willing to trade a favorable, glowing review of Hitchens' book for an invite (make that two) to the Hitchens party."
FT.com reports, "MySpace, the social networking site owned by News Corp, is close to launching a news aggregation service that will allow its 160m members to rank news stories and headlines in order of importance and relevance."
Boston Phoenix's Adam Reilly reports that Boston Globe's Charlie Savage's Pulitzer win "also brings up some bigger issues that merit discussion. Anyone who follows the newspaper industry knows that dailies across the US are scaling back their institutional ambitions, and anyone who follows the Globe knows that it's very much a part of this trend: while the Washington, DC, bureau (where Savage is based) remains intact for now, the paper closed down its foreign bureaus earlier this year."
A reader asks, "but did anyone notice the poor taste in MSNBC's commercial breaks during the Vtech shooting which included the new anthony hopkins' shoot-em-up/thriller where the gun is featured in the promo? poor taste, indeed."
For newbie reporters everywhere, Mark Grabowski is here to help with CubReporters.org, "a tool to help young, student and early career journalists with their job search and to inform them about opportunities available to them."
Media Biz reports, "Web research firm Hitwise put out some interesting figures Wednesday that showed which sites people went to most often to read news about the tragedy at Virginia Tech on Monday. ... According to Hitwise, Yahoo! News was the most visited news site on Monday while Google News ranked fifth."
Good morning Washington. 
