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Up to 6 Suitors in Hunt for Time4 Mags (NYP)
The deadline was yesterday, and according to sources, several bidders invited into the second round sat out the finals. The company had initially set a $240 million cutoff for titles that included Field & Stream, Outdoor Life and TransWorld Snowboarding as well as the Parenting Group. The frontrunner may be Stockholm-based Bonnier Publications. Folio:: Time may not get the price tag it was hoping for.

Cheney, Media Set to Take Stand in Libby CIA Leak Case (Reuters)
The perjury trial of former White House official Lewis "Scooter" Libby begins today, but the investigation has already laid bare the Bush administration's internal workings and damaged the independence of the news media. AP via E&P: Libby jury includes former Washington Post reporter who once worked for Bob Woodward, who is expected to be a witness. NYT: The former Post reporter also said that until recently he was a neighbor of Tim Russert of NBC News, who is also expected to be a witness.

Judy Woodruff to Join PBS (Philadelphia Inquirer)
More than 18 months after leaving daily TV in search of a kinder, gentler life, anchor Judy Woodruff will return to the grind Feb. 5 as a senior correspondent for Jim Lehrer's NewsHour on PBS. "Politics is in my blood, I guess," says Woodruff, 60, who left CNN in June '05 after 12 years as an anchor. She did a documentary for PBS and taught journalism at Duke, her alma mater.

NYP Editor on Payroll of Albany Lobbying Group? (NYDN)
Fredric U. Dicker, the New York Post's state editor, was paid for a Jan. 9 speech to the New York Bankers Association. This is the third straight year the NYBA has been paying Dicker — without the knowledge of his boss, Post editor in chief Col Allan. State government, banking regulations and political ethics are all part of his beat in the capital.

Kidnap Suspect's NYP Jailhouse Interview Upsets Lawyers (CBS News)
Attorneys for kidnapping suspect Michael Devlin criticized jail security, saying a New York Post correspondent obtained a jailhouse interview with him by identifying herself as one of his friends. The newspaper obtained the first interview with the 41-year-old pizzeria manager accused of kidnapping Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby.

Can Online Ads Save Newspapers? (E&P)
Print revenue is sliding and a lot of it won't be coming back. This puts enormous pressure on Web advertising. The Web has already proven it can make up at least some of that gap. The question is: How long will it take for newspaper Web sites to grow enough muscle to really bolster — or even carry — the business?

Jared Kushner's Observer (WWD)
Editor Peter Kaplan said he was actively interviewing to fill the empty culture and media positions and already had made some offers. "I'm happy about what I can't talk about right now," he said. "[Kushner] is in the business of assessing this paper, and I think that he will make it into a place that people want to invest their careers."

Politico Hopes To Rock Washington Media (Washingtonian)
The new venture anticipates revenues from advertising in the newspaper, which will be published three times a week. It will be a tabloid, with a print run of 25,000, delivered free to congressmen, senators, Capitol Hill staffers, K Street lobbyists, and so forth. The business side hopes it will be thick with ads from Beltway bandits and defense contractors who will pay to reach the political class.

Columnist Who Doesn't Care About Readers' Opinions to Participate in Web Chat (LAT)
Remember Joel Stein's column a few weeks ago about how he was totally uninterested in communicating with his readers (except in the one-way dialogue of his column)? Evidently someone has changed his mind.

Gothic Beauty 'May Be the Best Goth Fashion Quarterly Published in Portland, Ore.' (WaPo)
Peter Carlson: Gothic Beauty's articles are entertaining enough, but the ads are truly stupendous. An ad for Vampirewear.com offers "blood vials, empty vials, rose vials, fangs, shirts, hats, panties, coffin boxes." An ad for "Scarlet Noir gothic and burlesque accoutrements" offers a special deal: "Free death stud earrings with $60 purchase."

Hollywood Sees Fans Pull a Power Play (LAT)
"Ultimately these big media companies are all wrestling with the same thing — the power is being taken out of their hands," says Jordan Levin, the onetime WB network chief who now helps run Generate, a production and management firm active in Internet projects. "This is an industry that for its entire history has imposed its model on consumers. ... But that's fundamentally changing."

ABC, Oscars Set to Ramp Up Ad Campaign for Awards Show (NYT)
In recent years, the general public's interest in watching the Academy Awards, as reflected in the ratings, has become much more dependent on how familiar they are with the films and actors being nominated. By contrast, the Super Bowl usually draws large audiences year after year, in the neighborhood of 90 million, regardless of which teams are playing.

Words Journalists Never Should Use (Slate)
Jack Shafer: "Unspeak," writer Steven Poole's term for a phrase or word that contains a whole unspoken political argument, deserves a place in every journalist's daily vocabulary. "Unspeak" represents an attempt to say something without saying it, without getting into an argument and so having to justify itself.

The New Rules for Old and New Media (AdAge)
Simon Dumenco: I've quietly been working on a business book — a media-advice book that collects some of the lessons I've learned from my many years in this business. Because I want the book to be as up-to-date as possible, I've been trying to work in some very current new rules of new and old media.

Brit Papers Deny Pressuring Journos to Write Inflammatory Asylum Stories (Guardian)
The Daily Mail and the Daily Express have both denied pressuring their journalists to write inflammatory stories about asylum seekers. The editors of both papers were giving evidence to the joint committee on human rights at the houses of parliament. "I would never put any of my journalists under pressure to write something that they wouldn't want to write," Mr. Hill told the committee.