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Brokaw: I Warned Katie (Boston Herald)
One of the most-watched newsmen of our time warned Katie Couric that it wouldn't be easy when she traded her popular, perky role on the Today show for the more serious CBS Evening News. "I told her when she left that it's a dive off the high board," Tom Brokaw said this week during a visit to Boston. "This is harder than it looks, to go from the morning to the evening."

Reuters Cameraman Killed in Gaza Clashes (AFP)
Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral on Thursday for a Palestinian cameraman from the Reuters news service who was killed by an Israeli tank shell in the Gaza Strip. Shana was killed on Wednesday by a shell fired from an Israeli tank he was filming from several hundred meters away during a military incursion into Gaza that killed 17 other Palestinians, Reuters said. He had been standing next to a jeep clearly marked with "TV" and "Press" stickers, Reuters said.

Yahoo-Google Deal Advances (WSJ)
Yahoo Inc. moved closer to outsourcing its search advertising to Google Inc. after an initial test of the system yielded what the two firms deemed positive results, people familiar with the matter said. The deal could increase Yahoo's cash flow by more than $1 billion a year, according to Citigroup Global Markets analyst Mark Mahaney.

Japanese Broadcaster Says It Will Air Recording of Execution (AFP)
A Japanese radio broadcaster said Wednesday that it would air a 1955 recording of a death row inmate's final hours, including the moment he was hanged. No sounds or images from actual executions have previously been broadcast in Japan, a justice ministry official said, adding that the authenticity of the recording was unknown.

'Lonelygirl' Gets Popular With Investors (WSJ)
Producers of the Internet-video serial "lonelygirl15" — once thought to be an amateur project but later revealed to be the product of professionals — have raised $5 million from prominent technology investors to expand and introduce new online shows.

Application Overload Causes 'Facebook Fatigue' (Time)
Anita Hamilton: The backlash is well underway. David Diggs, a junior at Michigan State University who has some 300 Facebook friends, complains, "It's annoying to get about 70 invitations a day about taking some kind of quiz or adding an application." Diggs is one of more than a million people who have joined a Facebook group that is petitioning to ban the inviting of friends on applications.

NBC Nabs Rosario Dawson Web Series (Hollywood Reporter)
NBC Universal is taking another stab at bridging the Internet-TV divide. The company has inked a deal with Electric Farm Entertainment for the domestic rights to their upcoming Internet sci-fi series Gemini Division, starring Rosario Dawson. NBCU also has acquired the rights to Electric Farm's next scripted online series, the zombie comedy Woke Up Dead.

Book Deal for Ex-Mets Trainer in Steroids Scandal (NYP)
Kirk Radomski, the former Mets clubhouse attendant who became a key supplier of steroids and human growth hormones to dozens of ballplayers in the 1980s and 1990s, has just inked a deal to do a tell-all book for an imprint of Penguin. He is believed to have snagged a mid six-figure deal from the Hudson imprint for a book that is expected to hit shelves by spring training 2009.

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