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Bob Woodruff: Turning Personal Injury Into Public Inquiry (ABC News)
From chilling accounts of the roadside attack in Iraq that nearly took his life to a shocking investigation into the plight of military families dealing with injuries to their loved ones, Bob Woodruff returns to ABC News tonight at 10 p.m. with a look at the human cost of war. NYT: One man's survival story becomes a rallying cry. FishbowlNY: "I saw my body floating," said Woodruff. WaPo: Woodruff indicts military for its response to veterans. USAT: "I'm lucky." TVNewser: Doc not all about Woodruff. LAT: A year later, it's difficult to believe he's the same man whose skull was flattened on one side.

NBA Gives YouTube a Tryout (Sports Business Journal)
The National Basketball Association has signed a short-term agreement with YouTube that will see game and user-generated highlights uploaded on a dedicated channel, marking the second major sports property to align with the popular video-sharing site. In addition to the YouTube agreement, the NBA is in negotiations for deals with social-networking sites Facebook, MySpace and Second Life. NYT: "We're looking for new and interesting ways to engage our fans, and YouTube has a fabulous audience," said Steve Grimes, the vice president for interactive services for the NBA.

Deborah Kolben Named New Village Voice ME (NYO)
The lefty alt-weekly has named Kolben, formerly the city editor of the New York Sun, as the paper's managing editor. Since David Blum, ex-Sun television critic, took over as the Voice's editor-in-chief, there have been several defections from the conservative daily to the New Times-owned weekly.

CBS Makes a Play for Weeping Anna Nicole Judge (CBS Public Eye)
Saturday Early Show senior producer Michael Rosen has contacted Judge Larry Seidlin expressing interest in having Seidlin join the program. Meanwhile CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen has regularly derided Seidlin. "This fool ... has had the opportunity to engage in stream-of-consciousness judgeship — either that or a carefully orchestrated nervous breakdown," wrote Cohen.

Karmazin: Sirius/XM Merger Chances 'Better Than 50%' (B&C)
Sirius chief Mel Karmazin reiterated his confidence that the proposed Sirius-XM $13 billion satellite radio merger would clear regulatory scrutiny. "There is a sense in Washington that big is bad," Karmazin said Monday on Howard Stern's radio show on Sirius. "I'm confident when they take a look at what the advantages of this one are, they will approve it." AP via LAT: XM's loss narrows.

Arbitron, Nielsen Trial Shows Promise (NYT)
After a year-long trial, a joint venture of media-ratings companies Arbitron and Nielsen says it has proof that a new technology-driven approach can help clients fine-tune their marketing. The venture, Project Apollo, gave tracking devices to 11,000 participants to monitor their media exposure and product purchases.

Camera-Phone Amateurs Squeezing Paparazzi (Guardian)
A top paparazzo has said business for celebrity photographers is under serious threat from an army of amateurs and opportunists snapping stars on their mobile phones. German Hans Paul, who says he once earned $120,000 for a picture of a then-pregnant Julia Roberts, said fees for paparazzi had been driven to new lows as even fans and autograph hunters now know how to market their pictures.

Hatfill Settles Anthrax Libel Lawsuit With Vanity Fair, Reader's Digest (NY Sun)
A former Army scientist named by investigators as a "person of interest" in the 2001 anthrax attacks, Dr. Steven Hatfill, has settled his $10 million libel suit against the two magazines after they agreed to retract any implication that the bioweapons specialist was behind the deadly anthrax mailings.

MTV Greenlights Scripted Series (Variety)
The cable network, under newly-promoted president of entertainment and programming Lois Curren, has picked up a half-hour drama, Kaya, about the tribulations faced by a teenage girl when she and her band become rock stars. Between eight and 12 episodes have been ordered, and the show could debut in the fall.

Recent CBS Cable Deals Unlikely to Be Repeated (NYP)
CBS might have been able to bully nine tiny cable operators into paying the media company to carry its broadcast signal, but when it comes time to negotiate with Comcast and Time Warner, the Tiffany network may find that it is the one being shoved around. Both companies are maintaining the position that they won't pay CBS or any network to carry a broadcast signal.

'The Situation Can't Be Unf*cked': Arthur Folds (VV)
After five years of publishing consistently interesting music, arts, politics and drug journalism in the mold of the underground rags of the 60s and 70s, Arthur magazine died last Friday, according to founding editor Jay Babcock. He pinned the cause of death not so much on a lack of cash as on his inability to continue seeing eye-to-eye with his partner, founding publisher Laris Kreslins. FBNY: Kreslins' response.

MSNBC.com Launches User-Generated FirstPerson (Mediaweek)
MSNBC.com has launched a new outlet for users to post news-related photos, videos and even stories on the site. FirstPerson, which debuted quietly earlier this month, has already proven successful, say execs. Following a recent NBC Nightly News report examining healthcare for aging parents, the site pulled in more than 6,000 pieces of user-submitted content.

Financial Times Keen to Grow in U.S. (AdAge)
Financial Times CEO John Ridding said that worries over the future of newspaper publishing and traditional media at large are overwrought. "There's a lot of doom and gloom around our industry," Mr. Ridding said. "I don't buy it. There's plenty for traditional media companies to be taking advantage of."

Oscar Outclasses Super Bowl (NYT)
Stuart Elliott: The commercials that ran on ABC on Sunday bested the Super Bowl spots. They were inclusive rather than off-putting, celebratory rather than sour, light-hearted rather than dour. A principal reason for the difference is that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reviews the spots for appropriate content and tone before they run.

Does the Washington Post Have a Crush on Right-Wing Bloggers? (Media Matters)
Eric Boehlert: I don't know if the Post's cozying up is part of an overt effort to shed the "liberal media bias" charge, or if Post news execs actually believe the online GOP bomb-throwers represent an interesting and important piece of today's political dialogue. But it's time the Post ended this ill-conceived romance. It's also time for the Post to show influential liberal bloggers a little love.