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Suitors Lining Up to Woo Leno (NYT)
The Jay Leno chase is on. Four years ago, NBC made the comedian the lame-duck host of The Tonight Show, announcing with fanfare that he would be succeeded by Conan O'Brien in 2009. Today, Leno is still the champion of late-night ratings, and suitors including two networks, ABC and Fox, and at least one television studio, Sony Pictures Television, are beginning to circle.

Zell Hovering as Newsday Shakes (NYO)
Over the next week, Newsday reporters and editors are expecting an announcement about job cuts. Even veterans of the Vlad the Impaler year of 1995, in which Times Mirror ordered the elimination of 800 jobs from a payroll of 3,200, contemplate the coming week with dread. "It's really grim here," said James Bernstein, a business reporter and 30-year-veteran.

WGA members Officially Pass New Contract With Studios (LAT)
Writers Guild of America members overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract Tuesday, officially ending a labor dispute that resulted in Hollywood's biggest strike in two decades. More than 90 percent of the 4,060 members who cast ballots in Los Angeles and New York voted in favor of ratifying the contract, a show of support that was widely anticipated.

3 Nights of Idol Beat 1 Oscars Night (AP)
Fox dominated the television ratings again behind its hit competition, which was seen by roughly 29 million people on both Tuesday and Wednesday last week. A special Thursday edition had more than 23 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. Meanwhile, ABC didn't get quite the usual boost from the Academy Awards.

Handicapping The Pulitzers: Walter Reed? Virginia Tech? China? And Likely Some Surprises (E&P)
Joe Strupp: As Pulitzer Prize jurors prepare to gather next week in New York to sift through hundreds of submissions and find three finalists in each of the 14 journalism categories to nominate for the full board to consider in a month, speculation is mounting over which entries have the best chance.

Condé Not Interested in RBI (WWD)
A spokeswoman for Condé Nast Publications said Tuesday that the company isn't interested in buying Reed Business Information, which means an already small list got even smaller — many media analysts had tipped Condé Nast as a strong contender — and further raises the question as to why Reed Elsevier is selling now. Folio:: Early estimates put RBI sale at $2 billion.

Maxim Apologizes for Black Crowes Review (AP)
Maxim has apologized for publishing a negative review of the Black Crowes' new album by a writer who hadn't listened to the whole CD. The review in Maxim's March issue gives the Crowes' "Warpaint" a rating of two-and-a-half stars out of five. The band posted an exasperated statement on its Web site last week saying the writer hadn't heard the entire album because advance copies weren't available.

Judge Approves Predator Lawsuit Against NBC (Reuters)
A $100 million lawsuit claiming that NBC prompted the suicide of a former Texas prosecutor who was caught up in its popular sting series To Catch a Predator is moving ahead after a ruling by a U.S. federal judge on Tuesday. Louis Conradt, a 56-year-old assistant district attorney, shot himself in November 2006 after he was confronted at his Terrell, Texas home by police officers.

CBS Forecasts Tepid Growth (AP)
CBS Corp. came through a writers' strike relatively unscathed but issued a mild outlook for profit growth in 2008. CBS, which also owns a major radio broadcaster and the Simon & Schuster book publishing business, reported a 14.6 percent decline in fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday.

The Rake Mag Shutters (Folio:)
The owners of Minneapolis-based monthly magazine The Rake announced Monday that the March issue would be its last. In a meeting with staffers, publisher Tom Bartel cited a lack of advertising revenue and increasing costs of printing and production as the reasons behind the decision. "There is nothing wrong with The Rake other than the bottom line," he wrote in a post on the magazine's Web site.

Giants Coach Coughlin Planning Memoir (NYP)
New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin has begun holding talks about a memoir based on the team's spectacular Super Bowl season. "He's had discussions with some publishers and in the next week we expect to have more discussions," said Coughlin's agent, Sandy Montag. So far, there is no proposal and Coughlin hasn't even had time to make the rounds to personally visit publishers.

Judge Asked to Rescind Shutdown of Wikileaks.org (LAT)
A coalition of media and public interest organizations went to federal court in San Francisco on Tuesday urging a judge to reconsider his order to shut down a muckraking Web site that publishes leaked documents from businesses and government agencies worldwide.

Yahoo Buzz: A Lot Like Digg (BusinessWeek)
The new service epitomizes CEO Jerry Yang's focus on boosting ad revenue by making Yahoo a key destination for more than just content from the company's own sites. Buzz may certainly help make Yahoo a more engaging site for both users and advertisers. But it fails to prove Yahoo can generate the kind of game-changing ideas necessary for the company to forgo Microsoft's offer or demand a significantly higher bid.

Prolific TV Writer Richard Baer Dies (AP via USAT)
Richard Baer, a prolific television writer who contributed to the hit sitcoms Bewitched, That Girl, and The Munsters, has died. He was 79. He wrote for some two dozen shows, ranging from a single episode of Have Gun — Will Travel to 34 for Hennesey. He received an Emmy nomination for one episode of the show, which starred Jackie Cooper as a Navy medical officer.

What TV Ads Will People Watch When They Don't Have To? (AdAge)
A global consortium of influential marketers, major ad-buying firms, and popular media outlets have quietly funded research they hope will solve a tough mystery: As TV viewers exert more control over that small screen in the living room, can they still be persuaded to sit and watch advertising? That's what a project known as "Beyond :30" hopes to discover.