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Washington and Lee University
Jayson Blair spoke for about 30 minutes at Washington and Lee University on Friday and then answered questions from students and journalists for almost an hour. || Roanoke Times story on the speech. || Audio link.

New York Observer
Google is scanning entire issues of magazines -- ads and all. Some titles are decades old, so "it's kind of like heading into your parents' attic and checking out all the yellowing LIFE issues, only online," writes Gillian Reagan.

NationalJournal.com
It's a busy weekend for the disgraced former New York Times reporter: He's the featured speaker at this afternoon's Washington and Lee University journalism ethics forum, and he's Chris Wallace's guest on "Fox News Sunday." || Note to Ed Wasserman: How about sending (or posting) a transcript of Blair's W&L speech?

Washington Post
Among the many reader complaints about the Post's design changes, none have been louder than those reacting to the new weather layout and the smaller map, says ombud Andrew Alexander. The original map returns next week.

Boston Globe
El Tiempo de Boston began publishing last week as a free paper that focuses on communities with large Latino populations. It's edited by Maximo Torres, 60, former city editor of Boston's oldest Spanish-language paper, El Mundo.

Politico
The guest list for today's event: David Gergen, Chris Cillizza, Jon Meacham, Howard Fineman, Cynthia Tucker, Mike Allen, Mara Liasson, Josh Marshall, David Brooks, Andrew Rosenthal, and Gail Collins.

UncleBarky.com
"They forbade me to speak to anybody," says former "Today" co-host Deborah Norville. "And the result was, I was torpedoed. ...I was younger and blonder than Jane Pauley. That was apparently my huge failing."

New York
Jared Kushner and Andrew Ross Sorkin (left) got together about three weeks ago, but their talks never went far, reports Gabriel Sherman, who has a piece on the Times reporter in next week's New York mag. Kushner tried earlier this year to recruit Sorkin to succeed longtime editor Peter Kaplan.

Poynter Online | Columbia Journalism Review
At the Austin American-Statesman, social media editor Robert Quigley set up @FtHoodShootings and sent the first tweet with the first story the paper had on the shootings. By the end of the night, the list had more than 3,000 followers. || Related from Megan Garber.

Romenesko Misc.
The Detroit Free Press has complained to Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson about "the misleading, inaccurate article and headline that appeared in Monday's Wall Street Journal." ("Major Detroit Newspaper Takes Cues from Advertisers.") Free Press editors say "the fact is, we did nothing to compromise the newsroom while creating a win-win-win for our news coverage, for readers, and for advertisers to get their messages out."

CNN.com
"I gained more practical skills in those months [in David Protess' class] than in all of my other college courses combined," writes CNN's Nicole Lapin. "The experience prepared me to do the work I have done professionally and will continue to do throughout my career."

Reflections of a Newsosaur
Although James O'Shea (left) is working for free for a year, the rest of the staff will get full-boat wages. "Assuming a staff of 10 full timers costing an average of $135,000 apiece per year (counting benefits, equipment, office space and other overhead), a quick calculation suggests that $500,000" -- the amount Chicago News Cooperative got from the MacArthur Foundation -- "would cover operations for barely a third of a year," writes Alan Mutter.

Marketwatch
"I don't believe it is for sale or that the (Sulzberger) family wants to sell it. I do believe they might have to sell it one day," says Ken Auletta. Times Co. CEO Arthur Sulzberger Jr. "has done a brilliant job of keeping the family involved," but he "has not been an outstanding businessman."

Poynter Online
Sometime in the next month or so, between five and 15 online publishers will start testing Journalism Online's system, reports Steve Myers. He's told by Steve Brill that "all the sites are going to be offering some combination of free and paid."

McSweeney's
The San Francisco Panorama will have actual news, tied to the day it comes out, "and will basically be an attempt to demonstrate all the great things print journalism can (still) do, with as much first-rate writing and reportage and design as we can get in there."

Daily Beast
Jeff Bewkes predicts the only newspapers that will survive are the ones that have a content fee and advertising. "The same is true for magazines. Now you might quibble and come up with an example of some online free thing that survives. Fine. But it will be a razor-thin, small thing… which essentially has very little readership and very little revenue, very little earnings, and very little effect on the world."

Content Bridges
"That tells us that precious, and costly, newsprint will be used mainly for local news, but pixel-based newsreading will include the wider world," writes Ken Doctor. "Which, of course, makes the formerly mass market newspaper a niche -- what happened locally yesterday -- and the web mass."

SteveOuting.com
Steve Outing starts a discussion about what newspapers can create that they can sell. He writes: "There may be opportunity for a local news organization to create a paid personalized news service that gets down to the block level, so I get alerts when there's an arrest made 2 blocks from my house; or that a restaurant I frequent has had a health department violation."

NPR.org | NYTimes.com
"But how much stock can you put in what's said by someone best known for lying?" asks David Folkenflik. LAT's Doyle McManus says of Jayson Blair's talk today at Washington and Lee University: "If Mr. Blair's purpose is to tell editors, 'Here's how I got away with it; here's what to guard against,' then he could do a real service." || Another ex-Timesman, another speech: Selwyn Raab's remarks to the City College of New York's Alumni Association.

New York Observer
Kyle Pope, who has been an editor at the Wall Street Journal and Conde Nast Portfolio, starts at the Observer on Monday. His first issue as editor of the weekly will be December 9th.

Chicago Tribune
The biggest of the 12 checks go to the Better Government Association and Chicago Youth Voices Networks, with each given $60,000. The recently formed Chicago News Cooperative receives $50,000. "The Chicago area has become a real laboratory for development of the future for community news and information," says Community Trust president Terry Mazany.

> Carlson begins hiring for his conservative news site
> Should NYT kill sports section to bolster news pages?
> UWIRE's sudden closing surprised student editors
> Staten Island Advance seeks 40 to take buyout deal
> Ten AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellows named
> Tapper: I appreciate the lucky breaks I've gotten
> Salon's Schone moves to ABC News' investigative unit
> Papers shouldn't be surprised by nasty comments
> Prof studies journalism culture on international scale
> The Onion, Comedy Central team up for weekly show
> School's j-program saves thousands with online-only paper

Westword | NowPublic
A post on NowPublic -- a citizen-journalism site that Philip Anschutz bought earlier this year -- has some harsh (and often misspelled) words for the Denver billionaire. "No one from the home company has ordered the post be removed, so as not to annoy NowPublic's new owner. Not yet, anyhow," writes Michael Roberts.

Talking Biz News
BusinessWeek staffers were told Thursday that executive editors Ellen Pollock and John Byrne and managing editor Ciro Scotti will stay with the magazine after it's sold to Bloomberg at the end of the month. || BusinessWeek.com: BW's top online executive will be departing.

Heat City | azcapitoltimes.com
Federal court documents show that 19 of the Orange County Register parent's top officers pocketed a combined $2.6 million in the first eight months of 2009. The company filed for bankruptcy in September, claiming debt of more than $1 billion. || Here are the bonuses.

Gawker
Matt Zimmerman told Eliot Spitzer's communication director, Christine Anderson: "If you ever want to get back into TV (and not ABC!) let me know and I can see about openings here." John Cook writes: "The casualness with which he made the offer" -- made while trying to arrange an interview with Spitzer -- "speaks volumes about the relationships between flacks and -- oh, who are we kidding? It's Today."

PBS.org
On a recent "Sesame Street," one character felt that the Grouch News Network wasn't grouchy enough and threatened to switch to Pox News. "Now there's a trashy news show," the character added. Producers shouldn't have used the joke, says Michael Getler. "Broadcasters can tell parents whatever they think of Fox or any other network, but you shouldn't do it through the kids."

Boston Phoenix
The Globe editorial page has become a more bracing read since Peter Canellos took over, says Adam Reilly. "Editorials have panned the Boston Teachers Union, ripped President Barack Obama's recent foray into economic protectionism, and whacked Acting US Attorney Michael Loucks for dropping an illegal-marijuana-possession charge against Atlantic senior editor Andrew Sullivan."

Ithacan Online | Cornell Sun
Arianna Huffington also told the young audience at Ithaca College: "What your generation does with these new tools and this new media is going to define what happens in journalism, politics and the rest of our culture." || More on her talk.

SportsJournalism.org
"At my first job, the scissors necessary to cut up wire copy were tethered to the desk with a chain," writes Dave Kindred. "I asked, 'Is that so we don’t lose them?' 'Chain's so you can't stab the guy across the desk," a geezer said. 'Happened.'"

Wilkes-Barre Times Leader
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled there was a "pervasive appearance of impropriety" in how the defamation case was assigned to and handled by a disgraced former county judge. || Read the Citizens' Voice story on the ruling.

PBS MediaShift
"My own highfalutin theory is that journalists have taken a pretty bad beating the past few years in public perception and job security, and this is a way to goof off without being mean or cynical," says Ken Lowery, one of the @FakeAPStylebook creators. "The first popularity came from journalists who said, 'I needed this' or 'this made my week' or 'this is very cathartic.'"

Associated Press | Wall Street Journal | Portfolio.com
You can read it here. || San Francisco Chronicle says it will begin using high-quality glossy paper. || Matt Haber: "It makes sense that outsiders would see an opportunity in San Francisco."

New York Post
About 40 people will be laid off from Fortune, reports Keith J. Kelly. Sports Illustrated axed about 20 people this week.

Nieman Journalism Lab
"We're looking for new ideas," says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "It's a hard problem because, as everybody knows, printed circulation has declined, and the online use of newspapers has exploded positively. So you've got a bridge problem between one and the other, and we want to help. We really do."