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IHT Editor Oreskes Named AP Editor for U.S. News (AP)
Michael Oreskes, editor of the International Herald Tribune and a longtime news executive for The New York Times, has been named by the Associated Press to the new position of managing editor for U.S. news. The appointment was announced Thursday by Mike Silverman, AP's senior managing editor, to whom Oreskes will report.

Handicapping the WSJ Editor Search (Portfolio/Mixed Media)
Jeff Bercovici: Rupert Murdoch says he'll hire a new managing editor to replace Marcus Brauchli at The Wall Street Journal in "a couple weeks, maybe three" — and that was a week ago. But if he's serious — more serious than when he assured analysts he was "a couple of days" from securing a deal for Newsday — he's doing an awfully good job of keeping the search under wraps.

Exec Faces New Challenge: Meshing Newsday and Cablevision (Newsday)
As the person charged with overseeing Cablevision's newest purchase, a 97-percent interest in Newsday, Tom Rutledge will have his hands full, particularly given the perceived challenges of assimilating a primarily print media company with Internet holdings to one centered on cable, entertainment and the Internet.

Desperately Seeking Dunleavy — Rupe's Attack Dog MIA? (Forbes)
James Brady: Star reporter for the New York Post, tabloid TV news hound, best-selling author — colorful, brawling, carousing Australian Steve Dunleavy was missing in action. Dead? No, there would have been an obit. Stopped drinking? Not bloody likely, mate. Had Rupert Murdoch in a pious moment sacked the rogue? Not Murdoch's fiercest, most loyal, and longest-running attack dog. Yet not a single, outrageous bylined story in three months.

Does Fuller's AMI Exit Signal an End to Million-Dollar Contracts? (Folio:)
Dylan Stableford: I'm no financial whiz. But a magazine that's spending $2,500,000 on an editor who appears, at this point, to be relegated to blogging for the Huffington Post, is not spending its money wisely. I think, too, that paying an editor some 50 times, say, what another editorial staffer was making is a poisonous recipe for any magazine. It's a good time for publishers to rein it in those exorbitant edit contracts.

Israel Is the Promised Land for TV Show Ideas (NYP)
The latest adaptation from an Israeli format — following HBO's In Treatment earlier this year — is The Ex List, one of five new series CBS will introduce next fall, the network announced yesterday. The series, starring Elizabeth Reaser and slated for Fridays at 9 p.m. is about a woman in her 30s who is informed by a psychic that she must marry in one year or she will never marry. Moreover, the man she will marry is someone she already knows.

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