Always Apologize On A Saturday, and Other Media Lessons from Arianna Huffington [FishbowlLA]
What are Saturday mornings for? Taking out the trash, running to the dry-cleaner, and, if you're a media figure besotted by unwanted attention in the press, releasing an apology for your misdeeds which you hope will clear your reputation but in terms of actual coverage will slip between news cycles.

A Bit of Paid Stuff, For Free [FishbowlNY]
It's frustrating to search for stuff when what you really want is from publications you don't subscribe to. Tomorrow, a new service called Congoo will announce they're "making premium, restricted and/or subscription-only Web content available to anyone, free of charge." They've signed up dozens of media and financial publishers, who'll offer some of their paid content for free.

CNN Loses Lucia Newman To Al Jazeera [TVNewser]
First on TVNewser: CNN Havana bureau chief Lucia Newman is joining Al Jazeera International as a correspondent based in Buenos Aires. On Friday, Lou Dobbs thanked Newman for her twenty years of service. He didn't mention where she was heading, but TVNewser has confirmed it's Venezuela.

Spiegelman to Judge Anti-Semitic Cartoons [GalleyCat]
After drawing three illustrations for the New Yorker on the theme of the anti-Semitic cartoon contest an Iranian newspaper is sponsoring in retaliation for those Mohammed caricatures, Art Spiegelman has agreed to be a judge for an Israeli competition parodying the Iranian one.

Company Makes Right By Angered Design Community [Unbeige]
Back in September, the big story in the design community was the new Quark logo, which was a little too similar to several others already out there. If there's one thing you don't do, it's pilfer a logo when you're a company that makes design software. Not good. Well, looks like Quark went back to the drawing board and came up with something new.

New Editorial Page Editor At The Examiner [FishbowlDC]
Word on the street has it that The Examiner will soon announce the apppointment of Mark Tapscott as their new editorial page editor. Tapscott takes over the position previously occupied by David Mastio before he left way back in June. FishbowlDC's own Patrick Gavin has been holding down the fort ever since.

AvantGuild Member of the Week: Liza Burby [MBToolBox]
Though my day job is as editor of Newsday's Parents & Children magazine, I'm also currently reworking a young adult novel at my agent's request.