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Disney, Weinsteins Reach Agreement (LAT)
Walt Disney Co. and Miramax Film Corp. co-founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein agreed to part ways Tuesday, ending a tumultuous, 12-year marriage that had devolved into one of Hollywood's most closely watched reality shows. Variety: Disney will retain the Miramax name and the Miramax and Dimension film libraries. The Weinsteins, meantime, will take the Dimension label to a new company they are forming. NYT: Weinsteins will get about $130 million. Page Six: Disney's short list to replace the Weinsteins at the helm of Miramax is said to be topped by former DreamWorks and former New Line exec Mike DeLuca, Warner Independent head Mark Gill, and Buena Vista International head Daniel Battsek.

Settlement in Freelance Writers' Suit (Reuters via NYT)
Freelance writers agreed to a settlement worth as much as $18 million with publishing companies in a copyright infringement case involving work posted online. NYO: For the most prolific writers, individual payouts could top out above $100,000.

Bloggers Swarm on Schiavo 'Talking Points' Memo (WaPo)
Howard Kurtz: The document caused a stir because it described the Schiavo controversy as "a great political issue" that would excite "the pro-life base" and be "a tough issue for Democrats," singling out Florida's Sen. Bill Nelson.

Harper's to Clarify Altered Marine Photo (AP via S.F. Sun-Sentinel)
Harper's says it plans to run a clarification after receiving complaints about a photo illustration of several Marines, including one from West Virginia, that appears on the cover of the March issue with a headline promoting an article about deserters.

Court TV to Split Into Two Channels (Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo!)
The network announced plans to split into two channels separating daytime legal coverage from its evening slate of entertainment programming.

Hollinger Sues Black (Guardian)
The Toronto-based media company announced last night it was suing its majority owner and former chief executive Conrad Black, his companies and allies, for more than $636 million.

Brown to Blog (Business 2.0)
Greg Lindsay: Starting next month Tina Brown is crashing the bloggers' party, as Arianna Huffington's guest. Huffington is launching a new online publishing venture, the Huffington Report.

Make a Wish (Slate)
Make, a new quarterly magazine for techie tinkerers, has 192 pages worth of projects: backyard monorails, tricked-out PDAs, and Pong games that replace the video screen with two mechanical paddles and a real ball.

WaPo Striving to Turn Around Circ Slide (AJR)
The paper has convened focus groups, launched modest front-page zoning, and added larger, more stylish key boxes, and the top editor is calling for shorter stories, more art and graphics, and a livelier page-one mix.

Knight Ridder Hits 'Tab' Key (E&P)
News that Knight Ridder will convert two or three of its broadsheet papers to tabloid size—in larger metro markets, no less—produced mixed reactions from industry watchers.

ABC Serves Up Williams Sisters (Guardian)
Tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams have become the latest celebrities to star in their own reality TV show.

Steve Bochco Brings TV War to TV (NYO)
Joe Hagan: Over There, a scripted TV show about the Iraq war scheduled to air on FX in August, owes a heavy debt to the visuals of Saving Private Ryan. But its boilerplate foxhole drama is modernized with the addition of women, speed-metal music, and references to Abu Ghraib.

Ticket Broker Defends Post Buy (NYDN)
A 23-year-old Internet ticket-broker says he's underwriting 50,000 copies of the New York Post a day to the tune of $93,750.

Retracted Writer Faces Review (E&P)
A freelance journalist who authored two online news articles that MIT's Technology Review retracted over questions of veracity is also facing review of stories she wrote for other publications.

Canseco, Omorosa Join Surreal Life Cast (AP via Yahoo!)
VH1 has selected seven new has-beens to stop being polite and start trying to revive their careers on a new season of the hit reality series.

Parsons' Project (Part 2) (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: Throughout his life, Time Warner Chairman Dick Parsons has demonstrated a flair for converting apparent defeats into victories.

Food Writing Today Too Much About Food? (New Yorker)
Adam Gopnik: Like so many other subjects, food writing is constricted within ever-tighter circles of opinion, when what we want from it is ever-broadening metaphors of common life.

Lelyveld's Book 'Intensely Personal' (NYO)
William Doyle: It must be hell for a Timesman to try to write a memoir. There's not really much fresh material to work with.

Les Ms.-erables Bust Cover (NYO)
When the spring 2005 issue of Ms. magazine arrives on newsstands this week, readers might notice something a little odd. In the "Letter from the Editor" column, Ms. editor-in-chief Elaine Lafferty, 47, reveals that she's leaving the magazine after a two-year tenure.

—David S. Hirschman