Weekend Update: Tina Fey Leaves SNL For 30 Rock (TVSquad)
Tina Fey will no longer be the head writer of Saturday Night Live and will leave Weekend Update in order to focus completely on her new NBC comedy series, 30 Rock. FishbowlNY: Executive producer Lorne Michaels says "massive" budget cuts at NBC will make decisions at SNL "simpler" as the show enters its 32nd season.

Imagining the Day When the WSJ Print Edition Folds (Ad Age)
Scott Donaton: Certain forms of media that are currently print-based, particularly daily newspapers, must explore the possibility that there are more reader-friendly and cost-efficient ways to produce and distribute their content.

Mark Cuban: The Hi-Def Ted Turner (New York Mag)
At a moment of wrenching change in the news business and the media game generally, Cuban stands as a singularly interesting figure: hip to technology but no quaffer of the Kool-Aid, instinctively contrarian, possessed of a gambler's taste for risk and an outsider’s disdain for the Old Guard's shibboleths.

Seattle Weekly Staffers Quit en Masse Following New Times Takeover (Seattle Times)
A Phoenix-based chain known until recently as New Times Media assumed ownership of the paper in January. Since then the paper's publisher, advertising director, production director, design director, music editor and several longtime writers have left. Three weeks ago Editor in Chief Knute "Skip" Berger, probably the Weekly's best-known personality, joined the exodus.

Media-Mogul Fashion Dilemma in Sun Valley (WSJ)
Every summer, media moguls, tech executives and financiers ditch their neckties and sport jackets and go Western casual for the Allen & Co. power summit in Sun Valley, Idaho. This year, the recent invitation-only gathering saw some common style miscues that many executives face with business-casual clothes.

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