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Imus Rips Not-So-Brave Brokaw (NYP)
The friendship between Don Imus and Tom Brokaw is over. "He [Brokaw] is not the most courageous person I've ever met in my life," Imus told his listeners on Wednesday. "He's not the guy I'd want to be in a foxhole with." In a Dec. 11 interview, Brokaw, who was a frequent guest on Imus' WFAN show, told The Seattle Times he thought Imus "should have been fired."

ESPN Hires the Ink-Stained (WSJ)
For more than a year now, the Walt Disney Co.-controlled enterprise has been raiding news organizations for sports journalists, from big-name players like columnist Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated to behind-the-scenes talent like Kristin Huckshorn, former deputy sports editor at the New York Times and now a senior news editor overseeing ESPN's new newsmagazine show E:60.

Those Hulking Media Failures (BusinessWeek)
Jon Fine: The thinking behind the groaning multimedia behemoth (the "synergy" argument, if you'll forgive the term) was fundamentally misbegotten. Everyone more or less knows that now. But it also shows the limits to what a company gains by buying tons of properties in one sector — the "scale," or cost-cutting and shared-resource argument. Eventually hugeness stops delivering.

Lawsuit Against Hospital Over Treatment of Murdered NYT Reporter Settled (WaPo)
The adult children of slain New York Times reporter David Rosenbaum have reached a confidential settlement with Howard University Hospital, ending a year-old lawsuit that accused the hospital and D.C. emergency workers of negligence and medical malpractice.

Not for Nothing — ProJo and Guild Reach Agreement on New Pact (The Phoenix)
In remarkable contrast to the acrimony that preceded their current pact, the Providence Journal and the Providence Newspaper Guild reached agreement yesterday on a new three-year contract, intended to run from January 1 through the end of 2010.

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