FX's Liguori Is Chernin's Choice for Fox Chief (Reuters)
FX Networks president and CEO Peter Liguori is expected to accept an offer to succeed Gail Berman as president of entertainment at Fox Broadcasting Co. LAT: New Paramount CEO Brad Grey and entertainment president Gail Berman are used to the faster-paced life of television production.

Nielsen Will Address Possible Undercounting of Minorities (NYT)
Nielsen Media Research continued its counteroffensive against critics of the way it is changing the measurement of television ratings in urban markets.

Columbia J-School Adds New Degree (E&P)
Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism will inaugurate a new one-year Master of Arts program this fall, which "grows out of an extensive two-year review of the future of journalism education led by Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger."

PBS Cancels Wall Street Week (Baltimore Sun)
The cancellation comes three years after the program's creator and longtime host, Louis Rukeyser, was removed as part of an effort to attract a bigger, younger audience.

Ha Jin Wins Pen/Faulkner Award (WaPo)
The author has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for the second time for War Trash, a historical novel made both timely and more poetic by the events of today.

Radio Giant Looks to Web for Ad Boost (NYDN)
With the radio biz in the dumps, radio titan Clear Channel is hoping to grab fans online, starting with Stripped, its first original online concert series.

NBC Lagging in Comedies (USAT)
Thirteen years after the network's last comedy drought, the names have been changed but the story is the same. Stalwart comedies Friends and Frasier are gone and the peacock network is fending off CBS, Fox, even a resurgent ABC.

Mix-Up Leads to Idol Do-Over (NYT)
The producers of American Idol broadcast a do-over of Tuesday's program after an error made a hash of viewers' voting for their favorite singers.

Jerry Springer Signs On at Air America (AP via ABC News)
Springer's show will go live weekdays on the Air America Radio network beginning April 1. The liberal all-talk network currently broadcasts on 51 radio stations and on the Sirius and XM satellite networks.

Perle May Face Charges in Hollinger Mess (Globe and Mail)
Hollinger International director and former Pentagon bigwig Richard Perle might face civil charges for his involvement in the alleged looting of the company by ousted newspaper baron Conrad Black.

Writers' Digest Publisher on the Block (NYP)
F+W Publications, which is headed by publishing veteran William Reilly and backed by Providence Equity Partners, is expected to fetch roughly $600 million.

Eisner: Iger Is Boss (NYP)
Walt Disney Co. CEO Michael Eisner told analysts that his successor, Robert Iger, is his "boss" and is running the company six months before a planned handover.

Hallmark Channel Revamps Movie Ad Strategy (Ad Age)
The channel heads into this year's TV upfront auction with the intention of selling fewer ads and offering exclusive sponsorships for its signature movies. Mediaweek: Moonves says CBS open for upfront business.

It's the Content, Not the Source (Wired)
Adam Penenberg: Whether you are a reporter, essayist, blogger, or pamphleteer, judges have shown that they are more interested in promoting business opportunities than protecting the rights of journalists.

Censor Alert (L.A. Weekly)
Doug Ireland: A brace of Republican initiatives threatens to extend federal control of what you can see and hear and read to both cable TV and the Internet.

Fake News on UPI? (New York Press)
Paul Krassner: United Press International dispatched a story last week an editor says is "obviously fabricated" about a former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

What First Amendment? (VV)
Jarrett Murphy: When Liberty Corporation president Jim Keelor found out he was receiving the Radio-Television News Directors Association's First Amendment Leadership Award, he was in the process of making a decision which ignored the First Amendment.

'Gonzo Press Club' Vows to Continue HST's Work (The Onion)
Parody: "Now that the whore-beasts and the scum-sucking degenerate rat bastards in Wall Street and the White House are hell-bent on turning us all into pliant, Scripture-mewling puppet-slaveys, we must take up Hunter's fallen colors and charge into the fray," said president Gene Zolonga.

—David S. Hirschman