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Couric As Anchor: 'Potentially Visionary Choice' (New York)
Kurt Andersen: Making Couric the anchor and de facto face of CBS News is a very smart, potentially even visionary choice. She has all the serious-news experience the job requires, but it's her lack of old-fashioned TV-news "gravitas" — that perpetual default to careful, po-faced grown-up solemnity that any moron can fake — which makes her special. NYDN: Will Walter Cronkite's taped opening for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric ever air?

A Year Of Katrina: The Media Looks Back (TVNewser)
Bryan Norcross, CBS News hurricane analyst: "No one in a position of authority was, or certainly should have been, even mildly surprised," Norcross says now.

Meet The Mastermind Behind The TVNewser Explosion (Marketwatch)
When Brian Stelter isn't going to classes or editing the college newspaper, he runs TVNewser.com. The blog he founded in January 2004 — originally called CableNewser — is regarded as one of the most authoritative television-news outlets on the Web, or anywhere else.

Cruise Flap a Set Piece? (Los Angeles Times)
Paramount can ill afford to be feuding with Creative Artists Agency when it is only now getting back on track after a year of management turmoil and box-office disappointments. CAA represents some of Hollywood's biggest breadwinners, with a roster of more than 1,000 clients that includes Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Steven Spielberg, Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Hanks, Will Smith and Brad Pitt.

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