Editor & Publisher has its annual Pulitzer preview up- “Two Washington Post series in the running include Debbie Cenziper and Sara Cohen’s “Forced Out” investigation that revealed how local landlords drove tenants from rent-controlled apartments. It is a Goldsmith finalist. There is also the paper’s 12-part series on Chandra Levy, which many believe prompted the recent attention on a suspect named in the report. If he is charged, look for the jurors to take note.”

Who leaves the oldest show in television for the newest? Michelle Jaconi, who tells friends in an email today “CNN wooed me with an offer I couldn’t refuse– including creative control of a show that is going to change my favorite political institution, the Sunday morning public affairs program.” Her email after the jump…

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Then on Monday, a moment we’ve all been waiting for… the Sunday Show Showdown, I mean Summit. We see them around the same time every weekend, but never on the same stage. They come together for the CSIS Schieffer Series at 5pm Monday at CSIS. The panel will be moderated by CBS’ Bob Schieffer and will include NBC’s David Gregory, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and Fox’s Chris Wallace.

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After naming him “worse” of Countdown’s “Worst Persons in the World,” Calderone has redeemed himself with Olbermann, making his “Best Persons in the World” top three last night. For the count, that’s two bronze medals in Calderone’s collection.

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CBS’ Kimberly Dozier was Carol Joynt‘s latest guest for “The Q&A Cafe” at Nathans in Georgetown. The show airs tonight at 8pm on DC Cable-TV 16. They discussed her book “Breathing the Fire” and her near-death experience covering the war in Iraq.

We chatted with Kimberly- “After making you comfortable on a barstool at Nathans, Carol asks VERY direct, take-no-prisoners questions, like why isn’t there more news coverage of Iraq and Afghanistan, and how big is the network bureau presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.” She was also quite taken by the dessert- Georgetown cupcakes.

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ABC’s This Week: OMB Director Peter Orszag, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and a roundtable with Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, Karl Rove, The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel and ABC’s George Will

CBS’ Face the Nation: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

Fox News Sunday: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)

CNN’s State of the Union: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen, CNBC’s Suze Orman and Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI)

CNN’s Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz: GWU professor of media and public affairs Steve Roberts, CNN’s Stephen Hayes and Barbara Starr, political analyst and author Keli Goff and former NY Post gossip columnist Liz Smith

Bloomberg’s Political Capital with Al Hunt: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Bloomberg’s Lizzie O’Leary, Julianna Goldman, Ellen Pinchuk, Kate O’Beirne and Margaret Carlson

Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal: WaPo’s Dan Balz, NYT’s Peter Baker and ABC’s Martha Raddatz

Roll Call TV with Robert Traynham: former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay and Roll Call’s Erin Billings, Lauren Whittington and Emily Pierce

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Washington Times: Charity tax limits upset many

Washington Examiner: Michelle Obama’s high fashion in hard times

N.Y. Times: Climate of Change

L.A. Times: Iraq withdrawal plan in factors and figures

USA Today: Obama’s budget offers middle and working class ‘good news’

The Hill: Obama’s tax plan: Extra change or lighter wallets?

Politico: Pelosi butts heads with Obama

ABC News: Obama: ‘By Aug. 31, 2010, Combat Mission in Iraq Will End’

CBS News: Time For Marijuana Legalization?

Fox News: U.S. Prepared to Shoot Down N. Korean Missile

CNN: Ed McMahon hospitalized

Wall Street Journal: The 2% Illusion

NPR: Obama To Overturn Bush ‘Conscience’ Rules

Roll Call: Steele Under Fire From GOP Senators

CQ: Labor Lobby Enjoys a Return to Prominence With Democrats in Charge

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In a picture of Pres. Obama chosen for WaPo’s Op-Ed page today, Favreau’s digits are pretty distinct.

Check out Yeas and Nays for the full scoop.

FBDC co-editor Christine “C-Bass” Delargy is expected to be one of Favreau’s many late night callers.

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Coburn added that advances in technology, such as the Internet, Twitter, text messaging, and YouTube, are helping Republicans get their message out because policymakers don’t need to rely on daily newspapers as much as they used to.

Get the full scoop here.

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Albert Oetgen‘s role has been expanded to Managing Editor, senioring both Nightly News and the Today Show, and Meaghan Rady joins him from the NBC LA Bureau as a Coordinating Producer for those shows. Ken Strickland and Jay Blackman have been named Supervising Producers, and Scott Foster a White House producer. In the newsroom, Tony Capra has been named Manager of the News Desk.

Whitaker’s memo to the bureau after the jump.

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Boston Globe editor Martin Baron and Washington Bureau Chief Peter Canellos hosted a book party at the office for “Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy.”

In attendance: Susan Milligan, Lisa Wangsness, Sasha Issenberg, Thomas Oliphant, Ana Marie Cox, Mike Allen, Michael Scherer, Lynn Sweet, Karen Tumulty, Nancy Youssef, Jonathan Martin, Robert Schlesinger, Richard Stengel, Nora McAlvanah, Erin McPike, Nina Easton and George Condon.

Across town at Ristorante Tosca, Playbook tells us about a party hosted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, James Carville, Mary Matalin and George Stephanopoulos for Stanley B. Greenberg’s “Dispatches from the War Room: In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders.”

In attendance: Rahm Emanuel, Senator Dodd, Michael Feldman, Mandy Grunwald, Walter Isaacson, Joel Johnson, Eileen McMenamin, John Podesta, Hilary Rosen, Rick Stengel, Jessica Yellin, and Jill Zuckman.

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Today we made the difficult decision to cease broadcast operations at our Washington News Bureau effective next month. The broadcast news staff was informed earlier today. As consumers find more and more places from which to get their national news, the need for the company to maintain its own dedicated broadcasting presence in Washington has diminished considerably. Going forward, we expect to rely on existing internal resources and our news-sharing arrangement with CNN to service our television stations when covering Washington-based news.

Cissy Baker, who ran the broadcast side of the bureau since its inception and has been instrumental in its success over the years, will be leaving the company. We thank her for her dedication and her innumerable contributions to the company.

Publishing operations at the bureau will continue as usual. Veteran journalist Kerry Luft has been promoted to bureau chief and will be moving to Washington from Chicago.

Many of you already know Kerry-he joined the Chicago Tribune full-time in 1986, after working there as an intern and part-time while in college. He has served in a variety of reporting and editing positions and most recently has been associate managing editor for foreign and national news. He also has served as national editor, foreign editor, sports editor for enterprise and deputy metropolitan editor for suburban and political coverage. From 1994 to 1996 he was a foreign correspondent based in Brazil.

I know you’ll give Kerry your full support in the weeks ahead.

Bob Gremillion

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Funny guy and “Reason Gone Mad” blogger Bill Shein has a job application in at the White House, but like a jobless DC journo dumped after Inauguration, has yet to hear back on its status. He’s applied to be the nation’s first “White House Fellow for Humorous Affairs” and has sent this letter to the President.

What makes you qualified to be “presidential jester”? On my home planet, everyone was like me, so my jester skills were nothing special. But when I arrived here in my intergalactic clown car- launched just moments before my planet exploded in a ball of fire, absurdly large shoes, and pointy, bell-laden hats- I quickly discovered that I’m different from you earth people.

Who’s your biggest competition for the position? I’ve heard that Tim Geithner does a hilarious impersonation of that elf who wants to be a dentist in “Rudolph.” And the “Draft Bobby Jindal for Presidential Jester” movement has been gaining steam, which makes sense, no?

Why wasn’t such a position needed in the Bush administration? Wait. Wasn’t that Alberto Gonzales’ job? I’m confused.

Have you ever dressed as Nancy Pelosi or any other political figure before? To date, only Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. But that goes with the territory when you’re founding editor of the “Mitch McConnell is One Fine-Looking Man” fanzine.

Isn’t it Reggie Love’s job to hang out with the President?
Yeah, but he’s too big to be a good presidential jester. I mean, the guy is what, nine feet tall? Four hundred pounds? Can bench press the soda machine outside Axelrod’s office? Jesters have to be thin and wimpy, like me and Geithner, so people aren’t afraid to laugh. Reggie’s got a nice smile, but he’s enormous. I think he’d crush me like a bug if I laughed at him. That doesn’t fly in jester-land.

What’s the status of your job application? No word yet, but I’m optimistic. Deep inside the president’s budget proposal is a line item called “Revenue from Sales of Presidential Jester Action Figures (Less Shein Royalties).” By 2012, he’s projecting $46 billion a year. So I’m confident. And the response from the talking heads has been positive. Sean Hannity’s a big fan. A really big fan, actually. (Sean, if you’re reading this: Stop calling me at home late at night. You’re creeping me out.)

Do you have a history of hidden tax problems? If I told you, they wouldn’t stay “hidden,” now would they? But yes, of course I do. Far too many to list. It’s a prerequisite for White House service. Fortunately, last fall I declared my PayPal account to be a “bank” and received sufficient bailout funds to settle up with the IRS. In any event, does the position of presidential jester need Senate confirmation? I don’t think so. Though if it does, that will be a really, really fun day on the Hill.

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Sanfuentes was previously the Senior White House Producer. Congratulations Antoine!

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On how small the booth is, White House correspondent Chip Reid jokes, “I pretty much know how long its been since Mark’s showered.”

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Its day 39 covering the Obama administration and the end of week 4 for us.

What we know and what we’re reading this Friday morning…

NEWSPAPERS | TV | MAGAZINES | ONLINE | NEWS NOTES

NEWPAPERS

FishbowlNY reports Newsday and the San Francisco Chronicle will start charging for online content.

Larry Kramer at the Daily Beast says “people need to get over the notion that quality news only comes on paper.”

Slate’s Jack Shafer calls out WaPo for what it calls the “Bogus Trend Story of the Week” for a piece headlined “Climate Fears Are Driving ‘Economigration’ Across the Globe.”

TV

Jon Friedman at Marketwatch’s Media Web asks is the calm Rachel Maddow overshadowing the “bombastic” Chris Matthews on MSNBC?

MAGAZINES

Fortune Magazine’s Barney Gimbel is leaving the magazine amid charges of plagiarism that have caused the mag to issue an apology in the March 9th issue. The apology from the New York Observer: “In our Feb. 2 issue we published a story about Lukoil and its president titled “Russia’s King of Crude. We have since discovered that several passages were lifted from “The Triumph of the Quiet Tycoon,” written by Peter Maass and published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine on Aug. 1, 2004. Fortune apologizes to Mr. Maass and the New York Times Sunday Magazine.”

ONLINE

Another “Top 10 most influential DC Twitterers” list… this one from “Cheeky Fresh.” This list promises “people who are truly influential- “twinfluential” if you will.”

NEWS NOTES

The Senate voted yesterday to ban the return of the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine.

Politics magazine is accepting nominations for its list of Rising Stars of politics. Deadline is April 10th and nominations can be made here.

HAT TIPS: Mediabistro, Romanesko, Playbook

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