The Ticker: Alfonsi, Scarborough, Murdoch…

On CBSNews.com, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi “takes a humorous look at her first assignment in Baghdad…”

> Radio news: “The Joe Scarborough Show is officially planning on taking a break and will be relaunched ‘in an even more competitive time period’ in January 2006,” R&R reports (via ICN)…

> NBC Universal Digital Media is staffing up. Today’s press release includes several announcements: Former Todayer/MSNBCer/NBC WeatherPluser Jordan Hoffner is becoming Vice President of Broadband Programming and Operations and former CNBC PR VP Amy Zelvin is becoming VP of communications for Digital Media…

> FishBowlNY has a must-read dissection of the Murdoch family tree / media empire…

> AP: “ABC News and CNN.com plan to start providing video news feeds to Yahoo Inc.’s news site…”

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