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U.S. Plans Case Against AP Photog in Iraq (AP)
The U.S. military plans to seek a criminal case in an Iraqi court against an award-winning Associated Press photographer but is refusing to disclose what evidence or accusations would be presented. An AP attorney strongly protested the decision, calling the U.S. military plans a "sham of due process." The journalist, Bilal Hussein, has already been imprisoned without charges for more than 19 months.

Employees at CBS News Vote to Authorize a Strike (NYT)
Several hundred CBS News employees represented by the Writers Guild of America have voted to authorize a strike against the company, union officials said yesterday. The vote enables the guild to call a strike at any time, although a walkout is not imminent. A strike could affect CBS television and radio newscasts, both nationally and in four local markets. LAT: Of the 300 employees who cast ballots in last week's special election, 81 percent backed a labor stoppage to protest working for more than two and a half years without a contract.

Google to Get Into the Mag Publishing Business? (TechCrunch)
An interesting patent was granted to Google on November 8, titled "Customization of Content and Advertisements in Publications." A number of blogs picked it up and speculated that Google may soon begin to offer users the ability to create customized, printed magazines from Internet content. And print ads included in the magazine would be customized, too. The speculation doesn't appear to be far off. Guardian: Google has launched an advertising service for its partner network in the UK and Ireland that will allow targeted ads to run around YouTube videos.

EW Poaches AdAge Publisher (NYP)
Entertainment Weekly raided Crain Communications' flagship weekly Advertising Age to snag publisher Scott Donaton as the new publisher of Time Inc.-owned EW. Donaton becomes the fifth publisher at the embattled title in five years, and arrives when the magazine appears to be heading into at least its second consecutive year of an advertising slide. AdAge: Donaton rose through the ranks at AdAge on the editorial side, from a reporter covering magazines and newspapers to editor of the magazine and its Web site. In recent years, however, he shifted to what reporters often call "the dark side," becoming associate publisher and then, last February, publisher.

Facebook Denies Plans to Buy Chinese Social Network (CNET)
Facebook is denying a report that it is chasing after Chinese social network Zhanzuo.com. According to a Monday report in The Times of London, Facebook offered $85 million for Zhanzuo, which has about 7 million active users. A Facebook representative on Monday afternoon denied that any such offer exists.

WB Shows Go On-Demand (Variety)
Warner TV cable, satellite, and broadband channels will offer video-on-demand access to selected movies and TV shows. In other words, they won't be programmed like traditional channels, with shows airing at set times. Instead, viewers will be able to make a la carte picks at any time from an ever-changing menu of titles, ranging from WB films to segments of series such as The West Wing, Nip/Tuck, and Friends.

Who Wants To Be a Millionaire — On Strike? (Salon)
Doug Gordon: As the strike drags on, an entertainment-starved audience might soon turn on Hollywood. Scripted television will give way to nonstop reality TV, viewers will run out of backlogged episodes of Grey's Anatomy on their TiVos — and try telling a Lost fan that the show now might not come back until 2009. Will anyone have any sympathy for a bunch of millionaire writers then? USAT: Networks try to conserve episodes. Variety: News of strike talks spurs optimism.

NYT News Desk Proposal to Eliminate Dates From Datelines (Radar)
A draft policy now circulating proposes to end one of newspaper's oldest traditions: telling the reader when the reporter filed the story he or she is reading. "We'll still call them datelines, but they will now give only the name of the place, with no date," a Times memo explains. The "significant advantages" include doing "away with datelines that are several days old, which can make a story seem stale rather than immediate."

Kanye West 'Pissed Off' by Harper's Bazaar (WWD)
The rapper declares his distaste for the Hearst fashion magazine after it reported that a mural painted on a ceiling in West's Los Angeles home was of himself. "That pissed me off so bad," West tells GQ writer Chris Heath. "That made me so mad. Because who would want to hang out with a guy with an eight-foot picture of an angel of himself?"

Amazon's Kindle vs. the iPhone (Forbes)
Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos has created a reason to switch from bound paper books to bits — a device with a wireless connection able to download digital books on the go. The problem: Low-cost laptops and smart phones, such as Apple's iPhone, coupled with a rich array of online content, may have already made Bezos' $399 device obsolete.

Perhaps the Future Belongs to the Writer-Entrepreneur (LAT)
"Once you start seeing really good production values on the Internet, I mean, what does Larry David really need HBO for?" said Tony Gilroy, the writer-director of Michael Clayton. "This is all everybody is talking about on the [picket] line. They're not talking about healthcare. They're going, 'Wow, is there a different way to get our movies and TV shows made?' "

Looking at Boing Boing TV (Slate)
Troy Patterson: Boing Boing, the world's "most favorited" blog, is a hybrid of tech-culture newsletter and DIY lifestyle magazine. Its posts speak of copyright skirmishes and art-prankster attacks, of retro-kitsch bric-a-brac and futuristic gizmos, of comic books and academic journals. The site offers a little bit of everything for the cosmopolitan geek. This is in contrast to Boing Boing TV, a new Web video endeavor, which is about nothing.

Jackie Leo's Leaving Reader's Digest Was 'Graceful' (MIN)
The former editor-in-chief's November 9 termination by Reader's Digest Association president/CEO Mary Berner was sudden, but it was hardly a total surprise, because, Leo tells min, "There had been signals. I knew my circumstance because I was hired by [Berner's 1998-2005 predecessor] Tom Ryder. ... I also think the world of [successor/ex-More editor-in-chief] Peggy Northrop. She can make RD fly."

Ads Keep Spreading, but Are Consumers Immune? (AdAge)
People growing accustomed to constant interruption online. Thanks to the Web, "consumers are becoming more desensitized," said John Moore, senior VP-director of ideas and innovation at Interpublic Group's Mullen. "They almost expect no place to be sacrosanct anymore." Consumers may be resigned to this constant barrage, but is it just training them to tune out ad messages?

Time Inc. to Build Digital Brand Through Features, Content (Mediaweek)
John Squires, executive VP of Time Inc., said that while he'd like the company's sites to "crawl up in terms of scale," he's happy with their rank in engagement and revenue per user. At the same time, Squires emphasized the push to get people to stay on the sites longer. "Everything we're doing, we're trying to put through this lens [of] how long can we hold people for."