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Bush Press Conference TV-Friendly (NYT)
The decision by the White House to move up the starting time of its news conference wound up garnering the president live coverage on all four major broadcast networks. Drudge Report: CBS, NBC, and FOX cut off President Bush, mid-sentence, in several time zones, after sacrificing one hour of prime. E&P: Side notes on the press conference if you happened to be watching a ball game, playing beer-pong, or watching a reality TV show. USAT: President keeps promise to open up more to media.

Pentagon Releases Pics of War Dead (LAT)
Reversing a policy under fire, the Pentagon released photographs Thursday of flag-draped caskets bearing American soldiers killed in combat.

Clear Channel Plans Spin-Off As Profit Sinks (AP via Boston Globe)
The nation's top radio broadcaster said profit fell by more than half as its plan to shorten ads and commercial breaks during programs dragged down revenue. The company also announced plans to spin off its live-entertainment business and launch an IPO for 10 percent of Clear Channel Outdoor.

Woodruff Leaving CNN (AP via Yahoo!)
Correspondent Judy Woodruff, who has worked at the network's Washington bureau for 12 years and hosts the weekday afternoon Inside Politics, will leave when her contract expires in June to work on several long-form projects, as well as teach and write.

Metro Scrapes Off Gathered Moss (NYP)
Editor-in-Chief Brian Moss, a 24-year veteran of the New York Daily News—who once edited their free afternoon paper, Daily News Express, which folded in the wake of 9/11—got the heave-ho at free daily paper Metro late last Friday after only six months on the job.

Jayson Blair Returns in Bipolar Mag (Folio)
The disgraced New York Times reporter implicated in a plagiarism scandal the paper called a "low point" in its 152-year history, has turned up with a first-person column in the spring issue of bp, a magazine chronicling bipolar disorder.

Marvel Settles With Spider-Man Creator (NYT)
Marvel Enterprises settled its legal battle with Stan Lee, its chairman emeritus and a co-creator of characters like Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four.

Leggy Katie Hides Behind Foliage? (Page Six)
After the New York Times ridiculed Couric over her demanding-diva ways this week and noted how the Today cameras seem to "linger" on her toned legs, our sources say Couric has been covering up.

Gannon Miffed at Correspondents Dinner Snub (Page Six)
Disgraced former White House reporter/male escort Jeff Gannon can't believe no one has invited him to tomorrow's White House Correspondents Dinner.

Talk Radio Apologies: That's Infotainment (NYDN)
David Hinckley: Talk radio's two marquee apologies this week underscore a larger question: Should talk radio be judged by standards of information or entertainment?

Chicago 'Free' Tab Hurts Newsstands (Chicago Reader)
Business is off 70 percent for one Chicago newspaper vendor since Tribune's youth-oriented tab Red Eye began being aggressively being distributed free as "samples."

Week Strong (New York Sun)
Offbeat newsweekly The Week wasn't given much chance for success when it first started, but it has become a must-read for top CEOs, politicians and celebrities.

Quiet Comeback for Rosie (USAT)
This spring, the former talk-show host and magazine maven is returning to the small screen in a one-two punch, first playing a developmentally disabled woman in the CBS movie Riding the Bus With My Sister and guest-starring on three episodes of the Showtime series Queer as Folk.

Online Ads Rivaling TV, Print (Economist)
A 30-second prime-time TV ad was once considered the most effective—and the most expensive—form of advertising. But this week online advertising made another leap forward as Google began testing a new auction-based service for display advertising.

Desperate (For) Housewives (Slate)
Inside TV markets itself as a "TV Guide for women." The most obvious question raised by the appearance of yet another full-size, glossy, celebrity-centric weekly on the newsstands is: Why on earth do women need their own TV guide?

Biz Journos Face Challenges (Marketwatch via IBD)
Jon Friedman: When business editors and writers gather in Seattle on Sunday for their annual meeting, they'll have an opportunity to address two critical issues facing journalism: ethics and diversity.

Evangelical Christians Create 'Faith-Based' News (CJR)
To many people—especially in blue-state America—God, news, and politics may seem an odd cocktail. But it's this mix that fuels much of CBN News' programming.

Nets Looking for Anchor Watt (National Journal)
William Powers: Why not have really old men and women delivering the news? Put a few hearty octogenarians with quivering wattles up there, and the Boomers will feel young for 20 more years.

Prominent Tamil Columnist Slain (AP via Newsday)
A top Sri Lankan journalist whose articles favored the mainstream Tamil rebels over a breakaway faction was fatally shot hours after being seized by attackers at a restaurant in the capital, police and colleagues said Friday.

—David S. Hirschman