CNN to Deliver More Local News on Web (WSJ)
CNN plans to announce a deal that will allow it to offer more local news on its Web site and, it hopes, land a bigger slice of the fast-growing market for local online ads. The deal, with Internet Broadcasting, a privately held Minneapolis-based company that publishes the Web sites of 70 local TV stations, allows CNN to use local stories from any of those sites, and vice versa.

Couric: Show Hasn't Changed (Philly Daily News)
"It was always, I think, a pretty serious and hard-hitting newscast," Couric said. "I think now it's even harder. I disagree with people who sort of say it was too feature-y ... I think [with] the 24/7 news cycle in its current incarnation, that oftentimes to do a good news show you have to look beyond the headlines and beyond simply what happened, and talk about other issues as well."

Ex-Aide Tells of Conrad Black Apartment Buy (LAT)
The former head of investor relations at Conrad Black's company testified Monday that he had warned the onetime media baron that his shareholders would look askance at Black's purchase of a multimillion-dollar corporate apartment on Park Avenue. "I relayed to him shareholders' concerns" over "the appearance of having a luxury apartment," Paul Healy said.

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