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Hispanic Media Giant Univision Considering Sale (Reuters via MSNBC)
Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications is considering a sale of the company ... in an auction likely to draw keen interest from media conglomerates angling for an entry into the booming U.S. Hispanic market. NYT: An auction for Univision, which is worth nearly $10 billion, could set off a scramble among media giants.

NY Press Editors Cite Lofty Ideals in Cartoon Walkout (NYO Politicker)
Memo: We have no desire to be free speech martyrs, but it would have been nakedly hypocritical to avoid the same cartoons we'd criticized others for not running, cartoons that however absurdly have inspired arson, kidnapping and murder and forced cartoonists in at least two continents to go into hiding. Reuters: Muslims say Western media is hypocritical on cartoons. Reuters: French weekly reprints cartoons, angering Muslims.

Knight Rumors Continue to Percolate (E&P)
Reports continue today that MediaNews Group is discussing a possible alliance with Gannett to acquire Knight Ridder, which has put itself up for sale under pressure from shareholders. Even so, it is unclear if the aim would be to buy all or parts of the newspaper company and its 32 papers.

Newly Donated Papers Shed Light on Murrow (AP via Boston Globe)
When it came to preserving Edward R. Murrow's scripts and other papers from the WWII era, few people had the foresight or the luck to think of history. But now a batch have turned up quite accidentally.

Woodruff Awake, Groggy (Freep)
"We're all feeling blessed that he's this far along and he has great potential for recovery," brother Dave Woodruff said of his brother, ABC anchor Bob Woodruff. "It's a long road. He was from the point of injury to a bed in the Naval hospital in Bethesda in 60 hours."

Newmark: Edit Staffers Still Important (Whew!) (AAN)
Craig Newmark (of Craigslist): A lot of people now too are excited, too excited, about citizen journalism. But I do want to remind people how important professional journalism is. There's no substitute for someone who can write real well, no substitute for fact-checking, research, and editing.

Eason Jordan Skips Due Diligence (CJR Daily)
Paul McLeary: Given the nature of the war — and the fact that western reporters must often rely on Iraqi employees to guide them to information, or even to collect it — including those Iraqis in the round-up of journalist deaths in Iraq is only fitting. And their deaths are duly entered into the official record being written of the human costs of this war by both CPJ and RWB.

—David S. Hirschman