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Plame Case Headed to Supremes (NYT)
Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, who are facing up to 18 months in jail for refusing to testify about their sources, lost another round in the courts yesterday. They now have only one appeal left, to the United States Supreme Court. WaPo: Journos could face jailtime as early as next week. CSM: Journalists need to be shielded from political witch hunts, writes John Hughes.

Today Producer History (Variety)
NBC removed Today Show executive producer Tom Touchet on Tuesday after watching its most profitable program lose ground against ABC's Good Morning America. Phil Griffin, VP of primetime programming at MSNBC, will become VP and executive-in-charge of the show. WaPo: NBC exec says Couric and Lauer endorsed the move.

Pope Coverage Dopey? (Salon)
Heather Havrilesky: It's white smoke and mirrors, as TV news offers its most boring, useless coverage of the new pope, devoid of issues, agendas—and even Nazis! NYT: Anchors all too fallible in conclave coverage, writes Alessandra Stanley. WaPo: "At least two major news organizations" erroneously reported seeing black smoke, not white, rising skyward, according to anchor Brian Williams on NBC. BBC: Press give Pope wary welcome. AP via USAT: Sales of new pontiff's books soar.

TV Techies' Product Promo Payola (WaPo)
Howard Kurtz: The art of product placement, an increasingly popular and open practice with movie studios, has been handled quietly in television news. Many tech experts are praising products without disclosing that the manufacturers are paying them to spread the word on the airwaves. WSJ: TV shows present these gurus' recommendations as unbiased and based solely on their expertise.

Freep Ed's Albom Blast (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: Don't expect to find any heroes or martyrs in the saga of Mitch Albom, the embattled Detroit Free Press sports columnist. Albom definitely should've known better, but his editors clearly blew it, too. It's a disgrace that they didn't catch the error. E&P: Outsiders will review internal probe of Albom's work.

Rove: Media 'Less Liberal Than Oppositional' (WaPo)
Karl Rove left the security of his West Wing office and the Republican fundraising circuit to face an audience of smart-alecky students on a college campus, and for more than an hour, lectured about everything that is wrong with journalism.

TONY Ed to Omnimedia (Mediaweek)
Cyndi Stivers, the founding editor-in-chief of Time Out New York, said yesterday that she was stepping down as president and editorial director to join Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia as an executive vice president, effective May 18.

Esquire Exec in Feds' Crosshairs? (NYP)
Publisher Kevin O'Malley may be getting caught up in a federal investigation into illegal offshore-gambling operations. The feds are not happy that the magazine had run five pages of ads for online gambling casino Bodog.com in the April issue.

Reuters Skid Slows (BBC)
The news and financial data provider said subscription revenues were down by just 1.4 percent in the first three months of this year, and that it expected the change to be close to zero in the second quarter.

Report: Traditional TV Ads in Peril (Guardian)
The rising use of broadband, personal video recorders, and mobile telephones to access television programming poses a serious threat to the business model of traditional network TV, according to a report out today.

WaPo Website May Offer Local, National Homepages (OJR)
Mark Glaser: New Washingtonpost.com chiefs Caroline Little and Jim Brady talk about their new roles and about the challenges of serving both local and national/international audiences online.

Donaldson: Network News Dead (B&C)
Former ABC News reporter/anchor Sam Donaldson is ready to say the last rites for network news because it will soon lose its dominant position as Americans' primary source of news.

Gates Named New Pulitzer Chair (E&P)
Henry Louis Gates Jr., chairman of the Department of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, has been elected chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board.

Lit Blogs' Liftoff (VV)
Joy Press: The media have spent so much time gnashing their teeth over the influence of political bloggers that barely anyone has noticed something equally convulsive happening in the book realm. Literati are increasingly turning to blogs for discussion, gossip, analysis, and a sense of community.

Dow Jones Revolt in Works? (NYP)
Major shareholders may try today to break through the wall surrounding the Wall Street Journal's family controlled empire, and may try to strip chief Peter Kann of his chairman's post so that an outsider could run the board without so many strings attached.

Americans 'Uneasy' About Sex and Violence in Media (AP via KC Star)
About six in 10 Americans say they are "very concerned" about what children see and hear on television, in movies, in video games, and in music lyrics, according to the poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

Anschutz a 'Media Wildcatter' (Business Week)
65-year-old financier Phil Anschutz' gutsiest bet right now is in newspapers. His Denver-based Clarity Media Group is going full-force trying to outflank rivals by targeting the readers advertisers most want to reach—young, college-educated homeowners in the most affluent zip codes.

Hewitt's New Tempest (NYO)
Joe Hagan: Nearly a year after his retirement, Don Hewitt, the 83-year-old inventor of 60 Minutes, is talking with PBS about creating a new hour-long documentary program, kind of like, uh, 60 Minutes.

Information Revolution? (VV)
Sydney Schanberg: The Bushies have raised information control to a level never before seen in Washington. The press might consider might consider a little civil resistance, as in quiet, nonviolent, respectful rebellion.

Op-Ed Switcheroo Unseats Friedman and Dowd (NYO)
Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman—the homecoming queen and the guru of globalism—had occupied the lofty heights of the Sunday Times, with its circulation of 1.68 million, since 1999. Now they've been evicted.

FoxNews on Your Cell Phone (NYDN)
Sprint has added the Fox News Channel to its Sprint TV service, allowing its customers to watch the No. 1 rated cable news network live nationwide on their cell phones.

—David S. Hirschman