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Golden Globes Winners Announced (LAT)
The 10-week strike forced the cancellation of the usually star-studded Golden Globe Awards ceremony that was to be telecast from the Beverly Hilton Hotel on NBC. It was replaced by an all-media press conference, where TV reporters who specialize in celebrity news — such as Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart — announced the winners. WaPo: Pared-down Globes show leaves winners speechless. NYDN: Grammys fear writers strike. Variety: Globes' curtailed glow. Chicago Tribune: Golden Globes winners? Not the viewers, that's for sure. Time: Golden Globes press conference diary. NYT: It became hard to see prizes as anything but a goodwill gesture to the studios and stars, with an eye toward a more normal experience next year.

Publisher Reviewing Plagiarism Claims Against Romance Novelist (AP)
Two days after dismissing allegations that romance writer Cassie Edwards lifted material from other sources, publisher Signet Books decided "the situation deserves further review." "We will be examining all of Ms. Edwards' books that we publish, and based on the outcome of that review we will take action to handle the matter accordingly. We want to make it known that Signet takes any and all allegations of plagiarism very seriously." NYT: The controversy began when smartbitchestrashybooks.com, a blog devoted to romance novels, posted excerpts from Ms. Edwards' novels this week alongside passages from other sources to show the similarities, which the site's authors said they had discovered by plugging some of Edwards's writing into Google.

Can Bewkes Save Time Warner? (New York)
Seven years after the disastrous merger with America Online — and the subsequent vaporizing of $125 billion in shareholder equity — the company, its massive shopping mall-cum-headquarters astride Columbus Circle, suffers from a lingering post-traumatic stress disorder. Jeffrey Bewkes is supposed to fix that.

Joyce Carol Oates Leads Book Critics Nominees (AP)
Joyce Carol Oates led a field of National Book Critics Circle finalists announced Saturday, with nominations in both fiction and autobiography categories. Oates was nominated in fiction for The Gravedigger's Daughter, along with Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which was passed over for a National Book Award nomination last fall.

Zagat Publisher Seeks Buyer (NYT)
Zagat Survey, the guide empire that started as a hobby for Tim and Nina Zagat in 1979 as a two-page typed list of New York restaurants compiled from reviews from friends, has been put up for sale. The Zagat family has hired Goldman Sachs to seek a buyer for the company. People briefed on the company's finances suggest the company could be valued at more than $200 million.

Has Gawker Jumped the Snark? (NYT)
There are certainly signs that Gawker, delivering a daily dose of gossip and commentary about the news business and selected celebrities since 2002, is in the midst of a particularly intense period of turmoil, which has led to a slide in its once-hypnotic influence on the news media world. AdAge: Simon Dumenco wonders whether the new pay system at Nick Denton's media empire will change the economics for writing talent.

Howell Raines Resurfaces in Portfolio (WaPo)
Howard Kurtz: Nearly five years after he was forced to resign as the top editor of The New York Times, Howell Raines is taking on a new role: media critic. He will write a monthly column for Portfolio, the new Condé Nast magazine. And his perspective is that of a battle-scarred veteran: "I've got more arrows in me than Custer's horse," he says. He plans to focus on campaign coverage.

Rosenthal Blasts Critics Over Dowd Column (NYO)
"It's driving me out of my fucking mind," Times editorial-page editor Andy Rosenthal said Friday of the Maureen Dowd dateline controversy. "[Dowd] reported the column in New Hamsphire. The fact of the matter is, particularly when covering a campaign which is a very high-speed story, it's incredibly unusual for the reporter to be in the same place as the dateline when the story is filed."

ABC Studios Terminates Contracts of Nearly Two Dozen Writers Due to Strike (Variety)
ABC Studios on Friday notified nearly two dozen writers and nonwriting producers it is terminating their overall deals as a result of the strike. While all of the major studios had previously suspended deals for their scribes, the ABC Studios action reps the biggest move yet by a major to cut ties to talent. Based on industry estimates, it appears ABC Studios has cut nearly a quarter of its roster.

Condé Nast Shake-Up Widens Race for Crown (AdAge)
The executives ousted might have found favor under former chiefs, such as the recently deceased Steve Florio, but the current regime could see no place for them. A person within the company also said the changes reflect a company that's become a magazine giant — with Time Inc.'s sale of 18 titles in February 2007, Condé Nast became the country's largest seller of ad pages — and is adapting to its growth. Mediaweek: Insiders at Condé are awaiting a second round of changes after last week's shake-up.

Ad Buyers Hooked on Idol Too (LAT)
Television's reigning champion, American Idol, returns this week and the talent contest is expected to be more popular — and profitable — than ever. The Fox show begins its seventh season Tuesday against the walking wounded. As the strike by the Writers Guild of America grinds into its 11th week, rival networks are scrambling to stay alive.

Liberty Media Increases IAC Stake (WSJ)
Liberty Media Corp. paid $340 million to increase its economic ownership of IAC/InterActiveCorp to roughly 30 percent from 25 percent on Friday, a prelude to further rounds of deal-making between the two companies. Liberty already owns a majority voting stake in IAC, but its shares are voted by IAC's chief executive Barry Diller under a long-standing proxy agreement.

Reality TV Is No Lightweight in the Battle to Outlast Strikers (NYT)
The striking members of the Writers Guild of America may have hoped that television viewers, upset that their favorite dramas and comedies had gone dark, would disdain the chief alternative the broadcast networks had to offer: reality shows. If they did, the results from the last two weeks have offered cold comfort. Hollywood Reporter: CBS is beefing up its reality coffers with three new series.

Glenn Beck's Bad Hospital Visit Fuels Crusade (AP via USAT)
The video of a disheveled, unshaven Glenn Beck talking about a hemorrhoid operation gone wrong feels like one of those late-night, partying-with-your-friends pictures posted — to your eternal regret — on Facebook the next day. In Beck's case, it rapidly became an Internet sensation, fueling the CNN Headline News host's new crusade against health care practitioners who don't care. TVNewser: The video.

Remnick Sees the Future (WWD)
What's on David Remnick's mind these days? In a video interview with Big Think, a Web start-up that marries high-profile interviews with social networking, The New Yorker editor-in-chief reflects on his childhood, his big breaks at the Washington Post and in Russia, and discusses the future of The New Yorker and of journalism in general. But he also admits he worries about whether The New Yorker is funny enough.