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CBS to Keep Solo Anchor (Boston Globe)
Despite speculation that CBS might try a multiple-anchor format, network news president Andrew Heyward said yesterday that the evening newscast will revolve around interim anchor Bob Schieffer for the foreseeable future.

Star Wars to Become TV Series (BBC)
Two Star Wars TV series will follow the latest movie in the hit film franchise, director George Lucas said. One will be a live-action series featuring characters from the six Star Wars movies with stories taking place between movie episodes three and four—Revenge of the Sith and the original 1977 Star Wars movie.

Huffington's Blog to Appear in Newspapers, Other Sources (E&P)
Tribune Media Services will syndicate daily excerpts from the Huffington Post soon after the group blog's scheduled May 9 launch. LAT: Contributors will include writer-producer Aaron Sorkin, talk-show host Michael Medved, Playboy exec Christie Hefner, and actors Harry Shearer and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Where's the Beef Going? (NYP)
Primedia put its 70 business-to-business titles—including Hog Farmer, Soybean Digest, Beef, Catalog Age, Telephony and Electrical Construction & Maintenance—onto the block this week.

Lucky Yucky, Cargo Pants, Domino Effects (Salon)
Stephanie Zacharek: Mega-buzzed shopping magazines reduce readers to consumers without brains or a sense of style.

Reality Tries to Co-opt 'Hope' (Reuters)
Uber-producer Mark Burnett, the man behind CBS's Survivor and NBC's The Apprentice and The Contender, is developing a new project loosely inspired by the long-running CBS drama series Touched by an Angel.

ABC's Idol Banter 'Startling' (WaPo)
A breathless release yesterday officially announced that a special hour-long Primetime Live report "will explore explosive claims about behind-the-scenes activities at American Idol." Just in time for the May sweeps!

Papers Find Nat'l Ads a Tough Sell (NYT)
Some companies are pulling back on advertising in nationally circulated newspapers in favor of the narrowly focused ads proliferating online.

Amanpour Son Makes Risky Reporting Tougher (NYDN)
Top CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour probably has one of the riskiest jobs in the world, but it weighs on her more out of concern for her 5-year-old son, Darius, than for herself.

Season in the Dark for Sports Fans (NYT)
The 51-day impasse that has kept the Mets, the MetroStars, and other programming off Time Warner's local cable systems is all about binding arbitration.

TV Ads Getting Weirder? (Slate)
Seth Stevenson: "Twisted" humor, willful wackiness, over-the-top, absurdist scenarios. Ads of this ilk are everywhere. I don't think these ads work as pieces of marketing. And I've grown immune to them as pieces of entertainment.

Censors and Sensibility (WaPo)
Tom Shales: The galling irony of AMC's Bleep! Censoring Hollywood is that a documentary questioning the wisdom of movie censorship is showing on a channel that censors its movies routinely.

Journos Fired for Drinking Beer (E&P)
The Kalamazoo Gazette reporters went to a local party to research a series on drinking among young adults, and saw nothing wrong with partaking of the libations themselves.

Paparazzi Endanger Prince Harry? (Guardian)
Photographers put the prince's safety at risk when they reportedly pursued the vehicle he was traveling in along a narrow dirt track.

Ombud Outro (Boston Globe)
Nathan Cobb: Daniel Okrent traded tranquility on the Cape for a media maelstrom at The New York Times. Was it worth it?

Can Video Replace Written Word? (CSM)
Video presentations tend to appeal more to emotions than to logical reasoning, and some experts worry the shift from print- to video-based instruction could be coming at a cost of less comprehension.

Time for a 'New Brand of Journalism' (Boston Globe)
Alex Beam: How can one get in on the action of ubiquitous product placement? Sadly for me, newspaper journalism affords few opportunities for effective sponsorship and placements.

Reality Publishing's Cautionary Tale (New York Mag)
Last fall, Good Morning America and Simon & Schuster recruited America's aspiring solipsists for a contest called "The Story of My Life." Some 6,000 people submitted everything from UFO-abduction accounts to recipes.

—David S. Hirschman