Media Minutiae

The Wrap: Nielsen's sale of various publications, including The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard to James Finkelstein, whose family's company News Communications Inc. owns the "Who's Who" series, may be completed by Friday.

The Awl: A graph of magazine revenue over the last 10 years.

Gawker: David Letterman makes fun of NY1 reporters Roger Clark and Pat Kiernan.

Journal-isms: Newsday was picketed by people protesting the publication of a comic that mocked the idea of hate crimes.

Huffington Post: The Huffington Post's top game changers including top media game changer Sue Gardner of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Folio: Mr. Magazine names his most notable magazine launches of the year with Food Network Magazine taking the top prize. Other noted launches include Afar, Prestige and another food mag Sandra Lee's Semi-Homemade.

New York Observer: New York Times writer Jodi Kantor used her Sunday magazine story about to the Obamas' marriage to score herself a seven-figure book deal.

Nieman Journalism Lab: The now-defunct newspaper The New York Sun, is slowly mounting a comeback online led by editor Seth Lipsky.

paidContent: The New York Times is phasing out its Times Extra aggregation tool.

TV Guide magazine: It looks like Aaron Sorkin is plotting a return to TV, and he's planning to write another series taking place behind the scenes of a television shows, much like previous shows "Sports Night" and "Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip."

Poynter: "Daily Show" producers are serious about creating real media criticism along with the fake news.

Wall Street Journal: Rupert Murdoch and Carlos Slim told a Wall Street Journal conference that they don't regret their investments in newspapers.

BayNewser: YouTube Direct, a new method for news organizations like The Huffington Post, NPR and Politico to manage video submissions by readers, launched today.

New York Times: New York Daily News owner Mortimer B. Zuckerman has invested $150 million into expanding his paper's printing plant in Jersey City.

FishbowlLA: Two artists are turning abandoned newspaper boxes in New York into mini dance parties.

WebNewser: Time.com launched technology, entertainment, culture and games channel Techland.

AgencySpy: Another Time Inc. story: as part of its yearlong Assignment Detroit project, Time is sponsoring a contest in which five Michigan-based ad agencies are competing for a chance to market the Motor City to young people.

New York Times: Find yourself wondering what BusinessWeek will look like under Bloomberg LP? Take a peek into the inner workings of the company that seeks to be "the world's most influential news organization."

AdAge: What life is like after print for publications like PC Magazine, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Christian Science Monitor.

New York Post: The New York Daily News has lost two top editors, executive editor, David Ng and the deputy city editor Marilyn Matlick.

Connecticut Post: The Fairfield University independent student paper that published an offensive column earlier this year now faces harassment charges before the Connecticut school's Student Conduct Board.

Talking Biz News: CNBC's Maria Bartiromo's BusinessWeek column will not be making the move to the Bloomberg-owned version of the magazine.

paidContent: Forbes Media bought photo publishing and online distribution platform FlipGloss.

New York Times: A profile of Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts, who is currently negotiating a deal to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal.

TVNewser: John Towriss, CNN's former deputy Washington bureau chief, writes about his experiences with Lou Dobbs.

WebNewser: Huffington Post launches a sports section.

Silicon Alley Insider: Associated Press CEO Tom Curley told staff Tuesday that more layoffs this year are possible. "I know you all would like me to sound the all clear. I cannot do that," he said.

All Things Digital: News Corp. might join Time Inc.'s "Hulu for magazines."

New York Times: There's still no ladies in late night comedy writing rooms.

WebNewser: MSNBC.com and Onvia have teamed up to launch The Stimulus Tracker, which monitors Stimulus-funded projects across the country.

Huffington Post: One day before fired New York Post editor Sandra Guzman filed a suit against the paper, the Post let another minority staffer go, black reporter Austin Fenner.

New York Post: Hearst Corp. may have $1 billion war chest.

New York Times: After speaking at New York City private school Dalton, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, "widely regarded as one of the court’s most vigilant defenders of First Amendment values," insisted on reviewing a copy of any story written by the school paper before it ran.

Slate: Jack Shafer takes down Rupert Murdoch. "Murdoch is simply jawboning. Three months ago he promised that News Corp. would start charging for its newspapers by June 2010. Now he doubts that the company will hit that mark. In typical Murdochian fashion, he's sowing confusion and harvesting bewilderment."

BayNewser: The first Spot.Us funded article published in The New York Times -- about the Pacific garbage patch -- ran this week.

WWD: It has been a tough year for Conde Nast health magazine Self, but things are looking up for 2010: the January issue will carry more than 70 ad pages, the most for a January issue in 20 years.

New York Times: In court today, alleged David Letterman extorter Robert Joel Halderman claims he was only trying to sell Letterman the rights to his story before he sold a book or screenplay proposal to the highest bidder.

Variety: Over 100 people have been laid off at A&E and Lifetime, stemming from the nets' consolidation.

Huffington Post: Director Barry Levinson blasts New York Times critic Alessandra Stanley.

FishbowlLA: The Huffington Post taking a page from The Times and asking readers for local submissions.

i09: Can New York Times science reporter John Tierney actually examine the question of global warming critically?

New York Post: The Dow Jones is finally up again, surpassing its yearly high, so we can all relax now, right?

New York Times: Meanwhile News Corp has a little less to be happy about: Circulation sales for The New York Post have fallen within reach of its competitor, The Daily News and The News has a bigger online readership. We're guessing once Murdoch places a pay wall on The Post, that gap isn't going to close any, either.

Daily Intel: New York Observer owner Jared Kushner twice asked New York Times business reporter wunderkind Andrew Ross Sorkin to be editor of the paper. Looks like he settled for Portfolio's Kyle Pope instead.

Reuters: Thomson Reuters is not interested is getting into the print media game, says CEO Tom Glocer.

Folio: Playboy is working on ways to keep the magazine alive, with plans in the works for a joint venture in the development of a new business model for the company and more cost cutting initiatives on the horizon.

Mediaite: The New York Times issued a correction on a headline about a story on Fox News Channel's election night ratings, just to clear up any insinuation about the channel's political bias.

The Business Insider: How to survive a media layoff.