Lagardere acquires TWBG [Galleycat]
Time Warner had been making noises about selling its Book Group division for ages now, and a press release just issued today confirms that the Paris-based media group Lagardere will acquire TWBG for $537.5 million—making Lagardere's book publishing branch the third largest worldwide—a branch that already includes Hachette Livre, Hodder Headline, Larousse and Dalloz.

Dave Marash: Al-Jazeera's New Jewish Anchor [FishbowlNY]
After we saw Dave Marash take a ribbing on Stephen Colbert's show over his new appointment as Washington anchor for Al-Jazeera's international channel, we asked Marash to give us a shout. He did, during crazy busy days of moving to Washington from New York, and enlightened us on something Colbert asked: being a Jew working for an Arab-owned and run station that's best known in the U.S. for airing statements from Al Qaeda brass.

Disney: Go ahead, touch that dial [FishbowlLA]
Word is on the Street (or at least, the Street.com) that Disney will likely announce that it has sold its ABC Radio group to Las Vegas-based Citadel Broadcasting for around $2.8 billion. They are, in case you were wondering, the fifth largest radio broadcasting company in the country, operating 155 FM and 58 AM radio stations in 47 markets.

TV News Pioneer Reuven Frank Dies [TVNewser]
Former NBC News president Reuven Frank has died of pneumonia at age 85, TVNewser has confirmed.

Post Gets All Opinionated [FishbowlDC]
It looks like it's time for Katharine Graham to roll over in her grave yet again. Yesterday's Outlook section was quite full of things about the Post itself.

I Like It...But Could It Have More...Zip? [Unbeige]
Jason Santa Maria is a terrifically solid thinker on all things design. Case in point, he's just released the third chapter in his "Under the Loupe" series, which is, of course, about design. The topic this time around: critiquing.