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Study: TV Web Sites Had Best Election Coverage (NYT)
In the race for best media coverage, the winners were television Web sites, according to a report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, which followed 32 different outlets. The Web sites of both network and cable television delivered results quickly, allowing users to dig as deeply as they wanted into exit poll information and interactive maps with reports on hundreds of races. Mediaweek: The battle for audience supremacy in the online news category continues to be a fiercely competitive three-horse race, despite efforts by some of the biggest traditional news players to strengthen their digital output.

After O.J. Fiasco, Regan May Lose Her Carte Blanche (Newsweek)
Judith Regan's meddlesome-free days are almost certainly over. Her projects will come under intense scrutiny, and the loose "organizational structure" under which she operated will likely change, according to News Corp. insiders who didn't want to be identified. The outrage has led to widespread speculation about Regan's fate. It's unclear, however, how much Murdoch will clamp down on Regan. LAT: Pablo Fenjves, a witness in Simpson's 1995 murder trial, is reportedly the author of If I Did It. New Yorker: Fenjves believes that another publisher may seek to release it.

Government Urges Supreme Court to Stay Out of Times Case (NYT)
The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court not to prevent a federal prosecutor from examining the telephone records of two reporters at the New York Times. At issue is a Chicago grand jury investigation into information learned by two reporters in 2001 about the government's plan to freeze the assets of two charities that were suspected of having ties to terrorist groups.

New Biz Mag Seeks to Reinvent the Genre (WWD)
James K. Glassman, who has been a financial columnist for the Washington Post and who was the publisher of the Atlantic Monthly and The New Republic in the 1980s, has relaunched the public affairs journal of the American Enterprise Institute as The American, a glossy bimonthly with a ambitious approach to business, economics and culture.

Rep. Frank Also Questions Fox Host's 'Balance' (NY Sun)
Following in President Clinton's footsteps, prominent Democratic congressman Barney Frank yesterday accused Fox News anchor Chris Wallace of conducting a skewed interview designed to make Democrats look bad. "You advertise this as giving us a chance to talk about what we're going to do, but everything is aimed at trying to put us in a kind of a bad light," Frank said on Fox News Sunday.

NYO May Go Tabloid (New York Mag)
The New York Observer was always known as a sort of upmarket tabloid — but it might start looking like one, too. New owner Jared Kushner confirms that it's being redesigned. "We're considering tabloid, and we're considering Berliner [a format used by Le Monde and the Guardian]," he says. The tab format, Kushner noted, is "an easier read." Plus "it appeals to a more feminine audience."

Reality Show About Bonnie, Star Put on Hold (NYP)
One Park Avenue's focus will be on the young singles who work at the mag covering celebrities while at the same time trying to carve out a little time for a personal life. As parent company American Media became bogged down in its own fiscal drama, CEO David Pecker grew worried and nixed the idea of letting the cameras roll while the company worked through the situation.

Inky: Shrink Globally, Slash Locally? (WaPo)
Howard Kurtz: Six months after Brian Tierney gained control of a once-proud newspaper that routinely ranked among the country's top 10, he is considering layoffs of as much as 30 percent of an already reduced newsroom staff. "The Inquirer, unfortunately, has retreated in all but a couple of symbolic ways from the ambition it had at one time to play in the majors," says veteran reporter Rick Nichols.

Lou Dobbs' Populist Crusade (New Yorker)
Ken Auletta: The cable-news universe is relatively small. About 800,000 people watch Lou Dobbs Tonight, and in its time slot it lags behind Brit Hume's show on Fox, which has about a million and a half viewers. But Dobbs is narrowing the gap, and his new program is one of the handful on cable whose audiences are growing, rather than shrinking. New York Mag: Fox is shrinking, while CNN has found a new way to lure viewers — by Foxifying itself. And Lou Dobbs' America won't be ignored.

Are Green Magazine Covers Cursed? (Slate)
Julia Turner: To the editors of women's magazines, the color green "has traditionally been considered poison on the newsstand." This belief may sound cockamamie, but it's pervasive and often firmly held. But when I asked the research arms of magazine publishing houses and independent consultants whether they had data showing that green suppresses newsstand sales, the answer was no.

Five Hours With Al Jazeera (CSM)
Dante Chinni: In both style and substance, Al Jazeera International has a British feel. Indeed, if you briefly clicked by the network on television, you might mistake it for the BBC, from its understated, clean graphics to the on-camera personnel speaking with English accents. It also has the BBC's more-global view of the news, stretching far afield for stories.

All My Children Introduces Transgender Character (AP)
In a story unusual even for a soap opera and believed to be a television first, ABC's "All My Children" this week will introduce a transgender character who is beginning to make the transition from a man into a woman. The character, a flamboyant rock star known as Zarf, kisses the lesbian character Bianca and much drama ensues. The storyline begins with Thursday's episode of the daytime drama.

A Blogger Who's a Court-Approved Journalist (NYT)
Many bloggers describe themselves as journalists. Last week Charles LeBlanc, a rooming house resident who lives on social assistance in Fredericton, New Brunswick, received a court decision establishing his journalistic credentials. The confirmation came last Friday when a judge dismissed charges against LeBlanc of obstructing a police officer.

Inside the Rise of YouTube (GQ)
To compile a timeline of YouTube's journey, GQ spoke with more than twenty-five people, including founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, as well as those who think the pair are thieves, those who are dying to do business with them, and those who are using the site in ways its creators never imagined and the corporate media can't wholly grasp.

ABC Cuts Off The Nine (B&C)
ABC has abruptly announced that the show, which has been struggling in the ratings, is going on hiatus immediately. This week's scheduled episode of the serialized drama will be replaced by a special edition of 20/20 on Wednesday, the final day of November sweeps. The decision appears to have been made at the last minute.