It's been a busy week for NBC's Chuck Todd, traveling halfway across the world with President Obama. Good thing he has this man cave back at the bureau to retreat to...

Check out some politics and football with Chuck, First Read's Domenico Montanaro and Andy Gross above.

NBC's "Meet the Press" held on to its first place crown in total viewers and the A25-54 demo last Sunday. ABC's "This Week" was second in total viewers while CBS' "Face the Nation" took the #2 spot in demo (age 25-54).

Total Viewers for November 15th

NBC "MEET THE PRESS" 3,110,000
ABC "THIS WEEK" 2,820,000
CBS "FACE THE NATION" 2,610,000
FOX "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" 1,100,000

Demo(25-54) for November 15th

NBC "MEET THE PRESS" 1,000,000/.8
CBS "FACE THE NATION" 920,000/.7
ABC "THIS WEEK" 780,000/.6
FOX "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" 420,000/.3

Joel Simon, CPJ Executive Director; Ronnate Tissainayagam, wife of imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam; Naziha Rejiba, Kalima, Tunisia; Mustafa Haji Abinur, Agence France-Presse, Somalia; Matt Frei, Anchor BBC World News America; Rome Hartman, Executive Producer BBC World News. Photo credit: Jeremy Bigwood

Last night at the Newseum, BBC World News America and the Committee to Protect Journalists hosted the the CPJ International Press Freedom Awards reception. BBC World News America Executive Producer, Rome Hartman, CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon and Matt Frei, anchor of BBC World News America all spoke at the event.

The International Press Freedom Awards take place in New York next Tuesday, November 24th. For more info click here.

Jessica Taylor is leaving National Journal for a gig as assistant web editor for a new site at Politico called "2010," which will focus on the midterm elections.

See the memo from Jackie Koszczuk that announces Taylor's departure after the jump.

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Time Publishing, former parent company of CQ, will unload Governing magazine, its website and related properties to e.Republic, publisher of Government Technology magazine for an undisclosed price.

FOLIO's Jason Fell says the deal is expected to close before Thanksgiving. Governing was the last of the Florida-based publisher's Washington D.C. media properties.

Stengel, Ratnesar and Isaacson.

Former chief counsel to President Obama Greg Craig made one of his first public appearances, since his announced departure, last night at a book party for Time's Romesh Ratnesar.

The Aspen Institute's Walter Isaacson and his wife Cathy Isaacson threw the mag's deputy managing editor at a party at their home to toast "Tear Down This Wall."

Isaacson had big news of his own to celebrate-- he was named by Obama to chair the Broadcast Board of Governors.

In attendance: Time managing editor Rick Stengel, Mark Whitaker, Ben Bradlee, Sally Quinn, Michelle Jaconi, Sam Feist and Tammy Haddad.

Jaconi, Isaacson, Craig, Greenspan and Feist. Photos by Julie Fischer.

Cox, Hovell, Summers, Aigner-Treworgy and Memoli. Photo courtesy of Campus Progress.

Ana Marie Cox moderated a panel discussion with former 2008 presidential campaign embed reporters at GWU this week, in conjunction with Campus Progress and the Institute for Politics.

The first panel was made up of ABC's Bret Hovell, former NBC embed turned "Colbert Report" researcher Adam Aigner-Treworgy, Newsweek's Nick Summers and former Biden embed turned RealClearPolitics White House reporter Mike Memoli.

NBC's Kelly O'Donnell, former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer Jamie Smith and former McCain campaign staffer Justin Germany rounded out the second panel.

We learned they can identify hotel chains by just the carpet, they gained and lost a second freshman fifteen, supplied campaign staffers with booze (something O'Donnell calls "a great journalism tradition") and even managed to break some news along the way...

But would they do it again? They all agreed it'd be hard to beat the historic nature of the '08 campaign, but answers were mixed on whether they'd go back.

"You swear you'll never do it again, but there is a certain sexiness to being out there," Summers said. Germany's also in, "it's the Superbowl of politics." Hovell was a hard no.

Among those not receiving GWU credit to attend... Congress Daily's Erin McPike who covered the Romney campaign for NBC and the National Journal, msnbc.com's Carrie Dann who was embeded in Iowa for NBC/NJ, Roll Call's Tricia Miller who covered the Edwards campaign for NBC/NJ and WaPo's Perry Bacon.

• NBC's Meet the Press: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX), Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Susan G. Komen for the Cure founder Amb. Nancy Brinker, NBC's Chief Medical Editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman

• CBS' Face the Nation: Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and CBS medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton

• ABC's This Week: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and a roundtable with ABC's George Will, Republican strategist Liz Cheney, Aspen Institute's Walter Isaacson and former Clinton Labor Secretary and The American Prospect's Robert Reich

• Fox News Sunday:

• CNN's State of the Union: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), CNN Republican strategist Mary Matalin, CNN Democratic strategist James Carville, California Republican Senate candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina

• CNN's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz: The Weekly Standard's Matt Continetti, Salon's Joan Walsh, Washington Examiner's Julie Mason, Time's Karen Tumulty

• CNN's GPS with Fareed Zakaria: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Newsweek's Maziar Bahari

• NBC's The Chris Matthews Show: Time's Joe Klein, WaPo's David Ignatius, WaPo's Anne Kornblut and MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell

• Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal: Time's Karen Tumulty, NYT's David Sanger, LAT's Doyle McManus and Slate and CBS' John Dickerson

• Bloomberg's Political Capital with Al Hunt: Senator Carl Levin (D-MI)

• Washington Watch with Roland Martin:

• CNN's Amanpour: J Street's Jeremy Ben-Ami, American Jewish Committee's David Harris, Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar and former Finance Minister; Chairman, Institute of State Effectiveness Dr. Ashraf Ghani

Will update as we learn them.

Each day, Ashley Estill surfs your sites for the most popular stories of the day. Here are the top headlines for November 19, 2009:

Washington Post: Senate health-care bill diverges from House on key provisions

Washington Times: Work site arrests of illegals fall dramatically

Washington Examiner: Did Holder stiff Senate on Justice Dept. lawyers who defended jihadis?

USA Today: NFL vs. unruly fans: League out to protect game day experience

CQ Politics: Can Fiorina Go the Distance in California?

The Hill: Jesse Jackson: 'You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man'

Politico: Joe Lieberman slams public option, brushes off critics

ABC News: Sen. Kerry's Daughter Arrested in LA on DUI

CBS News: Student Fee Hike Fuels Mass UCLA Protest

Fox News: Missouri Girl Allegedly Killed 'to Know What It Felt Like'

MSNBC News: Biggest child-killers: pneumonia and diarrhea

CNN: Wal-Mart scuffle prompts racism claims

Wall Street Journal: The Permanent Campaign Continues

NPR: Postal Service Limits Letter To Santa Program

Roll Call: Lugar's Wife Arrested for DUI

National Journal: Dems: Extended Vote Possible Saturday

Bloomberg News: Stocks Plunge as Treasury Three-Month Bill Yields Turn Negative

Gallup.Com: Greater Optimism About U.S. Health System Coverage, Costs

Talking Points Memo: Stewart To Dobbs: Your Views Are 'Abhorrent And Wrong'

Politics Daily: Obama Talks to Fox News; the Freeze-Out Is Over

Reuters: Wall Street tax must be international: Pelosi

Veteran TV producer Michele Remillard became Executive Producer of C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" this week.

A veteran of Fox News for 11 years, Michele launched "Beltway Boys" and was a top producer at "Special Report with Bret Baier." Earlier in her career, Michele helped launch "Hardball with Chris Matthews" at CNBC, where she also produced "Equal Time" when Dee Dee Myers and Mary Matalin hosted. She was also producer at "The McLaughlin Group."

Washington Life's November issue is all about the "creatives." So, what better month to introduce their new art director, Kris Apodaca? FishbowlDC was able to pull her way from Photoshop for a few minutes to talk design, visual changes to Washington Life and the artistic side of editorial.

What's your background? I moved to DC last year from Denver, looking for a different opportunity in print editorial design. My experience is mainly with home design and lifestyle magazines. I was ready to expand my portfolio and the Washington Life opportunity presented itself at the right time.

From an artistic standpoint, how does editorial content look the best? Content should be easy to navigate and digest. Don't make the reader work too hard to get the information, but don't insult them by over-simplifying. And of course it should always be beautiful.

How is design of a society mag different from home/garden? The home design magazines where I've worked are about quiet elegance - creating an indulgent mood, something to aspire to. My Washington Life experience so far calls for a more vibrant sophistication. The writing reflects the rich history behind and current state of Washington D.C. society, the bright and beautiful galas and parties, the shopping, fashion and homes... All of this combines to create very engaging content. It's exciting to jump into each issue as part of such a focused editorial team.

What changes should we expect to see under your artistic guidance? Still clean and stylish but with a little more color, a little more energy. Although Washington Life is considered a regional publication, we are competing against national magazines, and distributed nationally as well, so the design has to be on par with national newsstand titles. That's what our readers can expect to see moving forward.

As an art director, what are your favorite magazines and why? There are so many. I'm such a magazine junkie. Right now I love Wired. It grabs me by the shoulders, gives me a good shake and leaves me with useful stuff in my head. And I will always love Australian Vogue Living - decadent and never stuffy.

A Fishbowl spy tells us that CNN's Wolf Blitzer (in a suit, of course), Martha Stewart, NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman and Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard were all at the Verizon Center last night for the Cavs/Wizards game.

The motley crew of media types were not at the game together but our source says they were all sitting center court, approximately 15 rows back.