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Romney Wins By Eight Votes In Iowa (B&C)
It was a long night for media coverage of the Iowa caucuses, with the final results not in until around 2:30 a.m. Mitt Romney edged Rick Santorum by eight votes, 30,015-30,007, which, according to CNN, was the second-closest caucus race in U.S. history after Guam in 2008, which Barack Obama won by seven votes over Hillary Clinton. NYT: From their respective television studios in Midtown Manhattan Tuesday, liberal MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow and conservative Fox News commentator Karl Rove looked to Iowa and saw the same thing: a Republican race that was "tight as a tick." Finally, they could agree about something. For a few hours Tuesday night, the nation's television anchors and political reporters were transfixed by which candidates would finish in fifth and sixth place in the Iowa caucuses -- not because they had projected the first-place finisher, but because they couldn't. Mediaite: Erin Burnett tried to explain a pie chart showing the way voters had veered related to what they considered the most important issue, using her new Magic Wall move, "the flick." The flick somehow did not get the pie chart onto the second screen as attempted until the third try, by which Burnett and Gloria Borger were cracking up. Anderson Cooper seemed to sense that all was lost and asked, "Have we all just given up?" to which Ali Velshi responded, "It is evident from the social media screen that people are going to sleep." For no apparent reason, this made Cooper explode in laughter. NYT / Media Decoder: Using Storify, we collected our commentary -- and that of others -- on the media coverage. TVNewser: Current TV sent out a reminder email Tuesday afternoon about its Iowa coverage Tuesday night, which, as Brian Stelter first reported last week, does not include its all-star anchor, Keith Olbermann. Politico / Dylan Byers On Media: Olbermann himself tweeted: "So as not to mislead: I am informed Countdown will not be on tonight, I must defer on all questions to @JoelHyatt @AlGore and @Current." But it turns out the opposite is true, according to what a Current spokesperson told a chat room on the channel's website Tuesday night: "We asked Keith to be the sole anchor and exec producer of our primary and caucus coverage beginning tonight," the spokesperson wrote at 6:30 p.m. in the chat room. "Unfortunately, he declined to anchor or participate." HuffPost: Olbermann and Piers Morgan are in the midst of a Twitter feud. Des Moines Register: We found out around 1:30 a.m. that Romney had officially been declared the winner by eight votes. The Des Moines Register stopped the presses -- just like in the movies -- to update the story and headlines. Here's a sense of all of the changes our print product went through. NewscastStudio Blog: CNN has moved its annual tradition of gadgets, stars, and glitz to Atlanta for this year's election cycle. The CNN Election Center is now located in Studio 7, the newest CNN studio in Atlanta. FishbowlDC: CNN does love its technology. TVSpy: Hearst Television announced an elevated commitment to political coverage at its 25 stations for the year. B&C: Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry spent the most money on television advertising heading into the Iowa caucuses, according to an informal poll by Broadcasting & Cable of local TV station executives. Business Insider / Politix: Google is clearly trying to lure journos to the new hub straight out of the gate. The search giant is sponsoring the media filing center for the Iowa caucuses, and it is totally tricked out. The company took over a concourse in the Polk County Convention Center in downtown Des Moines this week, converting it into a very Google-style loft where reporters can work, hang, eat, and network while they're in Iowa. Mashable: Tweeted messages and pictures gave caucus-watchers unprecedented access and levels of real-time information. AllFacebook: The economy tops the list of concerns for voters on Facebook, according to a new study conducted by the social network and NBC News ahead of the pair's Republican presidential debate on Meet the Press Sunday at 9 a.m. ET. AllFacebook: Strata, which provides software for media selling and buying, conducted a survey on how political advertisers are spending their budgets, and Facebook dominated the social category. ReadWriteWeb: Romney won Tuesday night's Iowa Caucus by eight votes, and the consensus on what role Twitter and social media played in the contest may be just as evenly split. ABC News / Political Punch: President Obama tried to steal a piece of the Iowa spotlight Tuesday night with a nostalgia-filled live address to his Democratic supporters over the Internet, at times hampered by static and sporadic audio interruptions that made him difficult to understand. TechCrunch: Obama, who has a history of being social media-savvy with his campaigning, has coincidentally used this period of intense media scrutiny to join photo-sharing darling Instagram as @BarackObama -- in addition to buying promoted tweets for the search term "Iowa Caucus."

Jeff Glor To Anchor Sunday Edition Of CBS Evening News (TVNewser)
Former Early Show news anchor Jeff Glor has added a new role to his portfolio at CBS News. Glor will become the regular anchor of the Sunday edition of CBS Evening News. The anchor role is in addition to his job as a special correspondent for CBS This Morning, which launches Monday. B&C: From 2009-10, he was anchor of the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News and a national correspondent for all CBS News broadcasts.

San Diego Union-Tribune Becomes U-T San Diego (JimRomenesko.com)
The paper formerly known as the San Diego Union-Tribune told readers Tuesday that it's now U-T San Diego.

Letter To Arthur Now Includes Quotes From NYT Staffers (MediaJobsDaily)
The Newspaper Guild of New York was a little upset when it heard that departed New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson would get her full $15 million pension while the foreign citizen employees' pension was frozen. Before Christmas, it sent an open letter to Arthur Sulzberger Jr. expressing its gripes. The site hosting the open letter, http://saveourtimes.com, now features quotes from NYT staffers, in addition to the letter. NY Post / Media Ink: More than 500 angry present and former employees of The New York Times signed an open letter sent Monday night by the Newspaper Guild blasting New York Times Co. chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. over the contract impasse and the lavish pay heaped on the former CEO of the company.

WSJ Cleared Over Europe Sales Fixing, Now Finger Points At ABC (paidContent)
The Audit Bureau of Circulation in the United Kingdom will not take action against Wall Street Journal Europe for a circulation-boosting program that nevertheless prompted the resignation on ethics grounds of WSJ's Europe publisher and Europe/Middle East/Asia managing director, Andrew Langhoff, recently.

USA Today Becomes Latest Publisher To Embrace Kindle Fire With Custom App (paidContent)
Amazon's Kindle Fire continues to draw interest from publishing companies, including ones that have already embraced Android tablets.

New Yorker Gets Nooked (minOnline)
With the arrival of the more powerful Nook Tablet this season, magazine publishers now have a much broader set of platforms on which to publish enhanced editions.

Two New Hires And A Promotion At Fox News D.C. (TVNewser)
Fox News' Washington, D.C., bureau is seeing a couple of new faces, or it will soon. TVSpy: Jeremy Settle, news director at WBRE in Wilkes Barre-Scranton, Pa., is leaving the station to join Fox News Channel.

MSLO Adds Four To Executive Team (FishbowlNY)
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has added four people to its executive team. paidContent: MSLO kicks off the new year with four new hires: Russell Brown as senior vice president, consumer products licensing; Charlie Tiersch as VP, business development; Colleen Nowers as associate VP, business development; and Claudio Goldbarg as SVP, publishing and digital media operations.

Super Bowl May Return To Days Of Spectacular '1984' Ad (AdAge / Super Bowl)
Often accustomed to making a short handoff in 30 seconds, some Super Bowl advertisers are considering a longer pass. AdAge / CMO Strategy: By producing and celebrating Super Bowl commercials, we reinforce the stereotype of ads as hype and artificial entertainment. The Super Bowl isn't a great moment for advertising. It's a humiliating stumble.

CNN's Situation Room Gets A New Look (TVNewser)
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer is kicking off 2012 with a new look.

AT&T To Pay TiVo At Least $215 Million To Settle Patent Lawsuit (Multichannel News)
TiVo has settled its pending patent lawsuit against AT&T, under which the telco will pay a minimum of $215 million through June 2018, TiVo announced Tuesday. paidContent: The settlement will result in AT&T paying TiVo $51 million upfront, as well as a series of quarterly payments, totaling $164 million, through 2018, when the patents expire. The $215 total figure could be augmented by additional top-offs if AT&T's subscriber base exceeds a given number in coming years. GigaOM / NewTeeVee: The only way TiVo has really made money in recent years was through patent lawsuits, followed by lucrative settlements. Dish Network and EchoStar agreed to pay TiVo a total of $500 million to settle a lawsuit brought against their DVRs last year.

Oprah Is Dialed In (NY Post)
Oprah Winfrey should send Steven Tyler a big engagement gift. WSJ: About 1.1 million people watched Winfrey's return to the talk-show format Sunday night, the second-largest audience for any show on her year-old cable network, OWN. But that audience was a fraction of the 6.5 million viewers Winfrey averaged in the final season of her daytime show on broadcast television, and it dwarfed most of what has been on OWN so far.

Reuters Hires Newsweek/The Daily Beast Contributor (FishbowlNY)
Reuters has hired Sharon Begley to be its new senior U.S. health and science correspondent. Begley comes to Reuters from Newsweek/The Daily Beast, where she had been a contributor and science columnist since 2007. NY Observer: She will be a senior correspondent covering health and science, a growing section of the Reuters newsroom, according to the announcement.

TheWrap's Daniel Frankel Segues To PaidContent.org (FishbowlLA)
It took some time, but paidContent.org finally found someone to step into the slot previously occupied by Andrew Wallenstein. Starting Jan. 9, Daniel Frankel -- formerly of TheWrap.com and Variety -- will take over as West Coast-based senior editor. His last day at TheWrap.com was Dec. 30.