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Tina Brown Writing Clinton Book (AP)
Another Clinton book is on the way, this time by the best-selling author and former editor of The New Yorker, Tina Brown. The Clinton Chronicles, to be released in 2010 by the Broadway Doubleday Publishing Group, will be Brown's first book since The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Princess Diana, which came out last year and has more than 300,000 copies in print.

WGA Calls Off Awards Show (Variety)
The WGA has called off its Feb. 9 awards show in Los Angeles — unless it has ended its strike by then. In a brief announcement Thursday afternoon, the guild said it would announce its awards as planned but added, "There will be no Writers Guild of America West show until the strike is over." NYT: Some writers wonder whether they are actually doing more harm to themselves than their opponents. LAT: Weinstein Company signs interim pact with WGA. TV Week: CBS Inc. president-CEO Leslie Moonves is "guardedly optimistic" that the writers strike will be over "in the next few months."

Former Roger Ailes Confidant Dan Cooper Is Ready to Spill Blood (Jossip)
Former Fox News architect Dan Cooper is lashing out at old bossman Roger Ailes — "a man I knew to be a schoolyard bully" — in a scathing ... Web post. In what's said to be the beginnings of a book, Cooper's item story-tells how he's gone from member of the inner circle in the 1990s to corporate outsider, and now is as intent on destroying Ailes as Ailes is on destroying Cooper. Touche! Portfolio: Fox News knocks down "brain room" claim.

FCC Commissioners Sign Off on Clear Channel Deal (Dow Jones Newswires)
The five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission have signed off on the $19.5 billion buyout of Clear Channel Communications Inc., paving the way for formal agency approval within the next several weeks. There are not believed to be any conditions attached to the transaction. The commissioners' support provides a much-needed boost to the buyout by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners.

Condé Throws the Switch on Flip (Portfolio)
Flip.com, Condé Nast's social networking site for teenage girls, is changing directions after a not-so-successful launch. The site is being "reshaped as a flexible Web application designed to live on social networking platforms, starting with Facebook." Folio:: According to CondeNet president Sarah Chubb, "there are millions of potential Flip fans on Facebook and other social networking sites. This is the right moment to follow our audience."

News Corp. Denies Making Offer for Monster (Dow Jones Newswires)
News Corp. denied Thursday making any offer for Monster Worldwide Inc., calling a report on the Seeking Alpha blog untrue. Seeking Alpha reported that News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch sent a letter to the board of the online-recruitment company offering $4.8 billion for it. Monster has a market cap of $3.6 billion.

MoDo's Hillary Hit — Dateline Jerusalem? (TPM)
Maureen Dowd weighed in with a column Wednesday that made a big splash, pissed off lots of people, and became part of the political conversation about Hillary's New Hampshire victory. The column was datelined "Derry, N.H." The piece reads as if Dowd was on the scene at Hillary's victory party, interviewing voters reacting to her win. But she'd already jetted half way around the world to cover the President's Middle East trip.

Martha Keeps Redecorating (WWD)
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. had its highest-level shake-up yet on Thursday morning after several rounds of incremental layoffs and reorganization, as well as the closing of Blueprint in December. Executive vice president and editorial director Margaret Roach was named a senior consultant to the company's Web properties, prompting speculation about her future at the company.

NYT Wants Your Polling Place Photos for the Web (E&P)
Calling it a "nationwide experiment," The New York Times has launched a new program asking online readers to submit photos of polling places during the ongoing primaries and general election. Dubbed the Polling Place Photo Project, the online initiative hopes to get photos from every polling place in the nation.

Writers' Strike Boosts YouTube Traffic (Guardian)
Video-sharing sites have seen dramatic increases in popularity as the writers' strike has led to TV shows being pulled and a glut of re-runs hitting the schedules. The biggest winner, according to figures from Nielsen Online, has been YouTube, which showed an 18 percent traffic surge in the two months since the writers' strike began in November, compared to September and October.

CosmoGirl! Enlists Teenage Correspondents to Cover 2008 Election (Folio:)
Taking a page out of MTV's Rock the Vote! playbook, CosmoGirl! has hired a pair of teenage correspondents as political reporters to cover the 2008 presidential race. To fill the correspondent position, CosmoGirl! conducted a nationwide search, publishing a call for applications in the editor's letter in the print magazine.

Report: Users to Play Major Role in Web Advertising (Mediaweek)
User-generated content, particularly the growing proliferation of user reviews of businesses on the Web, are set to play a more major role for local online advertising. That's according to a new report issued by local media analyst firm The Kelsey Group, which has offered a slew of predictions on the space for 2008.

You've Got Tribune — Now Do Something (BusinessWeek)
Jon Fine: Happy 2008 and big congratulations, Sam Zell! You got your deal done for Tribune. Thanks for bringing idiosyncrasy back to a medium that once (to paraphrase David Halberstam) was peopled by publishers with mud on their boots and rifles in their offices. Now for the hard part: coming up with solutions in an industry long run by executives who've been stewing in its old assumptions their entire working lives.

Your Converging TV (Forbes)
Louis Hau: Macrovision is a leading provider of content-protection and digital rights management technologies. But during the past month, Macrovision has signed an agreement to acquire Gemstar-TV Guide for $2.8 billion and completed an $82 million takeover of All Media Guide Holdings, publisher of the popular All Music Guide book series. It's all about getting into your neo-techie living room television.

Why J.K. Rowling Should Lose Her Copyright Suit Against the Harry Potter Lexicon (Slate)
Tim Wu: As sympathetic as I am to Rowling and her rights as an author, the answer is no, fan guides are not illegal. There is a necessary and healthy line between what the initial author owns and what follow-on, or "secondary," authors get to do, and Rowling is running over that line like the Hogwarts Express. The creators of H.P. Lexicon may not be as creative as Rowling, but they are authors, too, and deserve a little respect from the law.