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Sarah Palin Shopping Alaska TV Docudrama With Mark Burnett (EW)
Sarah Palin, TV producer? Multiple sources confirm that Palin and uber-reality show producer Mark Burnett have been making the rounds in Hollywood this week to pitch a TV docudrama about Alaska. One source called it a "planet-Earth type look" at Palin's home state.

NYT's Sulzberger Explains Philosophy Behind Charging for Articles (Wired/Epicenter)
On Tuesday New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. said "print will remain an important part of our long-range strategy" -- even as younger readers used to reading things digitally become a larger percentage of the populace -- but that without charging for online and mobile content, the publication's quality would suffer.

Fortune Redesigns for Changed Economic Climate (Mediaweek)
Time Inc.'s Fortune is keeping its name, but a redesign aims to reflect a time when many of its readers have less of the prosperity that the name suggests. The next issue, which hits stands March 8, has new sections like Career and Venture that will offer advice in uncertain economic times.

Hulu Vulnerable After Losing Viacom (NYP)
Viacom's decision this week to pull two of its most popular shows from Hulu underscores how vulnerable the fledgling video site is to the whims of major content providers that have revealed themselves to be ambivalent about it. TechCrunch: Viacom made the calculation that it can make more money by recentralizing distribution of its hit shows on its own sites than allowing them to be streamed on Hulu.

Obama to Appear on America's Most Wanted to Celebrate 1,000th Episode (AP)
President Barack Obama is going to help TV's America's Most Wanted mark the milestone broadcast of its 1,000th episode. Obama will be interviewed by the show's host, John Walsh, on the episode airing 9 p.m. EST Saturday on Fox.

Disney-Cablevision Standoff May Hurt Oscars Viewership (AdAge)
Ad buyers say there is an emerging concern that the current showdown between Walt Disney and Cablevision Systems could affect the ultimate viewership of what is often the second-biggest event on broadcast TV, ABC's annual star-studded Oscars broadcast. Variety: Will the FCC enter the ABC/Cablevision dispute?

Anne Rice Vook Debuts; Company Plans Over 500 Titles in 2010 (GalleyCat)
Bestselling novelist Anne Rice launched her inaugural vook yesterday, a multimedia version of her 1984 vampire story, The Master of Rampling Gate. Vook CEO Brad Inman said the company has more than 500 titles planned for 2010.

At New Epix Channel, It's All About Options (LAT)
The Epix movie channel premiered in October on Verizon's pay television service Fios. The channel is a joint venture of three Hollywood studios: Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Epix was designed not only as a television channel but also to offer video on demand and movies over the Internet.

Dave Smith Named Editor of Times' Week in Review (NYO)
Sam Tanenhaus is finally hanging it up at the Week in Review, and the editing job will go to his deputy, Dave Smith. Tanenhaus will continue to edit the Book Review and will also -- surprise! -- start writing more for the paper.

Cooper Ratings Crash (FishbowlDC)
Many in the industry are calling it a serious stretch that Anderson Cooper would be stolen away to be anchor at CBS, considering his Nielsen ratings are at an all-time low. Numbers reveal that February was Cooper's least watched month in the five years he's been doing his AC 360 show in total viewers and the 25-54 demographic.

Ads Posted on Facebook Strike Some as Off-Key (NYT)
Facebook, the world's biggest social network, is selling more ad spots to big companies like Wal-Mart Stores, Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo. But the site's pages are also home to countless ads from smaller companies that can be funny, weird or just plain creepy.

No Classic Title Is Safe From Onslaught of Literary Mashups (USAT)
It has been a year since Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was unleashed upon the unsuspecting masses. The quirky collaboration between Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith now has more than 1 million copies in print and since then there has been no stanching the flow of bloody titles featuring classic literary icons doing battle with B-movie demons.

Renowned Polish Journalist Kapuscinski Included 'Some Fictional Elements' in Reporting (AP)
A new biography of celebrated Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski suggests that his riveting coverage of global events in the 1960s and 1970s included fictional elements. The book also revisits already acknowledged claims that Kapuscinski provided information and analyses on politics in Africa and Latin America to Poland's communist leaders.

Real Housewives: Catfights in the Age of Branding (Salon)
Heather Havrilesky: Reality TV has evolved. In the early days, there were drunk, whoring sea donkeys, and lumpy people boiling rice on the beach. Then came the shouting matches, the name-calling, the blunt weapons. Now over on Bravo, six women with great shoes, fragile identities and blurry ego boundaries are taking the genre to a whole new level of postmodern, high-capitalist sophistication.

The Imagined Life and Times of Michael K (Crushable)
Lilit Marcus: While many entertainment blogs exist either to mindlessly fawn over celebrities or needlessly attack them for having the audacity to wear yoga pants in public, DListed occupies a middle space. It's not heady or intellectual, but it's also not fluffy and dismissive.