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Storm Blows Through CNN Headquarters (AP via LAT)
CNN switched to its scheduled taped programming early Saturday even though a major story — downtown Atlanta's first recorded tornado — had literally blown right through its news headquarters. The storm shattered windows in the CNN.com newsroom and the network's library late Friday. A computer was missing after it was apparently sucked through a window. No one at CNN was hurt. TVNewser: CNN becomes the story.

China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos (AP)
Access to YouTube.com, usually readily available in China, was blocked after videos appeared on the site Saturday showing foreign news reports about the Lhasa demonstrations, montages of photos, and scenes from Tibet-related protests abroad. There were no protest scenes posted on China-based video Web sites such as 56.com, youku.com, and tudou.com.

Iraq War Disappears as TV Story (AP via Miami Herald)
The war has nearly vanished from TV screens over the past few months, replaced by stories about the fascinating presidential campaign and faltering economy. Yet Americans continue to fight and die there, five years after the war started in March 2003. "It's no big secret that this is a war that everyone has grown tired of," said CNN correspondent Arwa Damon.

HBO Entertainment Chief Out (LAT)
HBO said Sunday that entertainment president Carolyn Strauss was leaving her post at the premium cable channel, where she helped develop programs such as The Sopranos and Six Feet Under and foster an environment that attracted top-notch creative talent. The HBO veteran is in discussions about taking on a new role with the network, probably in the form of a producing deal. Variety: According to insiders, HBO brass initially suggested to Strauss that she bring in a top development lieutenant. She opted against such a move and instead starting discussing her future with the net.

With Order to Name Sources, Judge Is Casting a Wide Net (NYT)
Toni Locy, reporter who wrote about the anthrax case for USA Today, has become one of the rare reporters who risk serious punishment for refusing to reveal confidential sources — and even in that exclusive company, her story is extraordinary. A federal judge has ordered her to pay fines up to $5,000 a day if she continues to withhold the names. And he has ordered that she pay the fines herself. AP: Bush administration opposes media shield law.

Web Has Unexpected Effect on Journalism (AP)
It was believed at one point that the Net would democratize the media, offering many new voices, stories, and perspectives. Yet the news agenda actually seems to be narrowing, with many Web sites primarily packaging news that is produced elsewhere, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual State of the News Media report. B&C: The trouble with journalism may not be a loss of audience, per se, but the challenge of getting advertisers to follow that audience to the Web.

Are Job Cuts the Death Knell for America's Newspapers? (Marketwatch)
"I guess the worst thing that could happen is the business could fall off a cliff the way the music business did," said Dean Takahashi, a former technology reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, who left last month to become a blogger just before a round of layoffs. "I worry that is possible." Do newspapers face the same fate as other traditional media hit by the digital wave, or worse? Marketwatch: If newspapers lose, we all lose, writes Marshall Loeb. E&P: Growing pressure on newspapers to unload assets.

Has Rove Mellowed on Fox? (WaPo)
Howard Kurtz: No one would accuse newly minted pundit Karl Rove of being balanced, but he has been generally fair-minded in his commentary. The man long derided by the left as "Bush's brain" is trying to move beyond his attack-dog reputation. "I'll never be able to fully shed it, because I am a partisan," Rove says in an interview. "But I'm doing the best I can to focus on my role in giving insight."

Open-Source Troubles in Wiki World (NYT)
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales has been called many things: benevolent dictator, constitutional monarch, digital evangelist, and spiritual leader of the tens of thousands of volunteers who have made the online encyclopedia one of the top 10 most visited Web sites. Unfortunately for him, the news media love a good royalty scandal and, in the last few weeks, he has been getting the royal treatment.

WaPo Changing Editing Process (Slate)
Jack Shafer: Information, which once marched in orderly lines from sources to reporters to editors to mammoth printing presses to fleets of delivery trucks to readers, now caroms every which way in a network. That's the thinking behind a pilot program at the Washington Post to capitalize on the power of the network and shake up the editing process at the Post's A section.

The Real Web 2.0 Mantra? Be Evil. Very Evil. (AdAge)
Simon Dumenco: Now that Web 2.0 seems, with each passing day, to be less and less magical — what with softening click rates and the rising realization that it's going to be insanely difficult to effectively monetize social networking — Google's "Don't be evil" sounds increasingly hilarious. If anything, the old-media titans and new-media boy geniuses defining the future of the Web are in a battle to out-evil each other.

New SI Web Venture Has History Behind It (Portfolio)
SI Vault, the new online home for Sports Illustrated's archive, has been a long time in the making. Fifty-four years, to be exact. The site, which launches in beta form today, will contain every scrap of content the magazine has published since its launch in 1954 — a cache that includes some 150,000 articles and 500,000 photos.

Globe's Sennott to Join Global News (Boston Globe)
A group of veteran foreign correspondents, including the Boston Globe's Charles M. Sennott and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Matthew McAllester, will be joining Global News Enterprises LLC, the first US-based Web site devoted exclusively to international news, which is set to launch early next year.

Fake Memoirs, Factual Fictions, and the History of History (New Yorker)
Jill Lepore: Historians and novelists are kin, but they're more like brothers who throw food at each other than like sisters who borrow each other's clothes. The literary genre that became known as "the novel" was born in the eighteenth century. History, the empirical sort based on archival research and practiced in universities, anyway, was born at much the same time.

Sloane Crosley Goes From Flack to Author (New York)
One suspects Sloane Crosley had an easier time than most young essayists in getting her first book published. It's not that she isn't an amusing writer; it's that she's also one of the city's most charming publishing flacks. Months before the April 1 release of I Was Told There'd Be Cake, a New York Observer profile declared her "the most popular publicist in New York."