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Journos Gripe About Covering the Knicks (NYO)
"I'll admit that the beat makes me miserable," said Howard Beck, The New York Times Knicks reporter, who previously reported on the Lakers for the L.A. Daily News. "We all know what it's like to cover a normal team. ... covering the Knicks is so much worse."

Anthony Licata Is Promoted to Field & Stream Editor (MIN)
Deputy editor Licata succeeds Garden & Gun-bound Sid Evans. Field & Stream/Outdoor Life group publisher Eric Zinczenko says that after a one-month search, Licata "was the clear choice for the job. Anthony is a very talented editor and a total outdoorsman who is a passionate hunter and fisherman."

Anderson Cooper Loves My Super Sweet 16 (HuffPo)
Anderson Cooper visited Ellen yesterday, where he discussed what sorts of trash TV he watches to take his mind off the sad stories he covers. He stopped watching The Bachelor long ago, but respects Brad's decision to propose to neither girl in the recent finale. He does, however, seem to love MTV's teen-oriented reality programming.

News Orgs' Video Explosion (AJR)
Charles Layton: News video has been around for six or seven years on some newspaper Web sites, but in the past 12 to 18 months it has grown from a significant trend into a near stampede. Call up Web sites at random and you'll find a very large, very mixed selection, much of it disappointing, some so awful it makes you cringe, and some reasonably well executed but trivial. But a small proportion is excellent by any standard.

Sunday Times Gets Bloggy With an Extra Op-Ed Page (NYO)
The paper's Op-Ed page editor Andrew Rosenthal said the extra page a week has allowed the section "to give newspaper readers a taste of what we're doing online." To wit: All three expanded Sunday Op-Ed sections have included a new feature — a sampler of readers' comments from the Times' online stories and blogs, called Op-Extra.

Rove, Newsweek Join Forces in Mutual Exploitation (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: Newsweek got plenty of attention earlier this month when it announced that Karl Rove, who masterminded George W. Bush's two successful presidential campaigns, would be writing occasional columns. This arrangement — in which a publicity-hungry newsweekly joins forces with a publicity-hungry Washington insider — looks like a fascinating case of mutual exploitation.

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