CNN Exec Quits Over Davos Remarks (AP)
The company's chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amidst a furor over remarks he made in Switzerland last month about journalists killed by the U.S. military in Iraq. NYT: With Eason's resignation, bloggers have laid claim to a prominent media career for the second time in five months. WSJ: Did Eason Jordan really have good reason to quit CNN? Not really, says an editorial. Mediacitizen: Bloggers nail another skin to the wall. WaPo: The blogosphere seems to be claiming more victims more quickly, writes Howard Kurtz. AJC: A CNN pioneer's fall from grace. Boston Globe: Eason Jordan's downfall "was ultimately self-inflicted," writes Cathy Young. "And, if the 'old media' don't learn some lessons from this incident, there will be more such wounds."

Prom Porn (Mediaweek)
Fairchild Publications pulled 200,000 copies of a special prom issue of YM yesterday after a teen porn website address turned up in an ad for prom dresses.

'Gannon' on the Record (E&P)
In an interview, former White House reporter Jeff Gannon, whose real name is James D. Guckert, revealed that, contrary to many media reports, he has not been subpoenaed in the Valerie Plame/CIA case. Houston Chronicle: A fake reporter's questioning of the president fits into the administration's widening pattern of manufactured journalism, says an editorial.

Nightline at a Crossroads (AP via USAT)
One of the intriguing ideas being talked about at ABC is a swap, where George Stephanopoulos takes over Nightline and Ted Koppel lands at the struggling Sunday morning franchise This Week.

Katie Doesn't Heart Cojo (Page Six)
Today show anchor Katie Couric gave word to have Today correspondent Steven Cojocaru, a reporter for The Insider and Entertainment Tonight, fired after he went on Oprah to talk about his recent life-threatening kidney surgery.

Bad Press for P.R. (NYT)
The Armstrong Williams controversy comes even as public relations specialists are adjusting to alternative media sources that can rewrite the parameters of the communications industry and challenge traditional sources of authority.

Ethical Journos We (LAT)
David Shaw: "Journalistic ethics" may seem an oxymoron in the current climate, but a formal study found journalists are actually more ethical than the practitioners of most other professions.

NYP Still Smarting From Front-Page Flub (Washingtonian)
Harry Jaffe: The paper denies permission to D.C. press club members who wanted to display the Post's famed "KERRY'S CHOICE: Dem Picks Gephardt as V.P. Candidate" with other framed front pages.

Fragile Balance at PBS (LAT)
Left-leaning critics see a growing "Beltway culture" in the network's programming decisions.

Website Roils Education Journalism (NYT)
A new online publication, insidehighered.com, hopes to become the first significant competition in higher education publishing since Lingua Franca folded in 2001.

Study: Local News Focus Fuzzy During Campaign (NYT)
In the month leading up to last year's presidential election, local television stations in big cities devoted eight times more coverage to car crashes and other accidents than to campaigns for local offices, according to a new study.

Disney Book Good News for Publishers (NYT)
How did author James Stewart infiltrate Disney, and how did his book become part of the Ovitz lawsuit?

TV Execs Suckers for Passing on Spike Series? (Boston Globe)
Matthew Gilbert: Sucker Free City should be a two-hour pilot for a new Showtime series, but because of TV industry twists, it is only a one-off movie that premieres tonight at 8.

J-Student Faces Charges for Break-In Pics (AP via S.J. Mercury News)
Omar Vega, a freshman at San Francisco State University, claims he was acting as a journalist when he photographed fellow students breaking into a car last fall.

Home, James (The Independent)
His job as Conde Nast's editorial director came with kudos, glamour, and a fat salary. So why is James Truman selling up and moving to Spain at 46?

Times Reporter Christopher Marquis Dies (NYT)
Marquis, whose specialty was Latin American politics, joined the Times in 2000 from the Washington bureau of Knight Ridder Newspapers, where he was chief foreign affairs writer.

Cult Worship for the McSweeney's Set (Nerve)
Ada Calhoun: For several years, McSweeney's smugly epitomized a culture with its own language (too smart for pop culture), style (too smart for fashion), and social schematic (too smart for anything remotely overwrought). On all scores, in fact, McSweeney's was underwrought, cold, and pretentious (but affable about it).

Angry Feedback for NYT Critic on MOMA (New York)
The museum's Terence Riley smells "mendacity" in the critiques of new Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff.

—David S. Hirschman