Mediagazer: Yahoo Exodus Leaves Advertisers Confused About Strategy, Sales (Edmund Lee/AdAge)

Chasing Fox — The loud, cartoonish blood sport that's engorged MSNBC, exhausted CNN—and is making our body politic delirious. — In the spring of 2006, a year and a half after he was hired to run CNN/U.S., Jonathan Klein went to his boss Jim Walton with an idea. CNN was in trouble.

Discussion: Inside Cable News

Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, CNN's duo of civil dispute — They are, somewhat self-consciously, an odd couple, the Northern pol and the Southern belle, the prosecutor and the journalist, the man trying to recover from disgrace and the woman graciously forgiving his sins.

Jim Efstathiou Jr / Bloomberg:

New York Times to Repay Carlos Slim's $250 Million Loan Three Years Early — New York Times Co., publisher of the namesake newspaper, plans to pay back a $250 million loan from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim three years ahead of schedule. — The company intends to repay the loan …

Discussion: Telegraph, Silicon Alley Insider, Runnin' Scared, New York Times, Bloomberg and New York Magazine

David Carr / New York Times:

Film Version of Zuckerberg Divides Generations — At what point does ambition, a cornerstone of American commerce, morph into something darker and less celebrated? Over the weekend, people who saw “The Social Network,” the movie about Facebook and its principal creator, Mark Zuckerberg …

Discussion: New York Times and From 416 to 905

Alex Williams / ReadWriteCloud:

5 Tools for Online Journalism, Exploration and Visualization — In our last post on data journalism, we ran across a number of tools that would be helpful for anyone who is interested in how to make sense of data. — The tools represent a renaissance in how we make sense of our information culture.

Discussion: ReadWriteCloud

Nick Davies / Guardian:

Coulson ‘listened to hacked messages’ — Anonymous source tells Channel Four David Cameron's media adviser would ask for recordings to be played for him at News of the World — The prime minister's media adviser, Andy Coulson, personally listened to the intercepted voicemail messages …

Discussion: Jon Slattery

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

EXCLUSIVE: Jon Stewart mocks Rick Sanchez — Letterman jokes about cleaning out fired anchor's office — NEW YORK - Jon Stewart and David Letterman joked about the Rick Sanchez controversy here Saturday evening as host of Comedy Central's “Night Of Too Many Stars.”

Discussion: NY Daily News, The Huffington Post, TVNewser, Speakeasy, Mediaite, Runnin' Scared, MyFox New York, New York Magazine, Gothamist and The Wrap

Tom Lowry / Variety:

Journalist Richard Siklos to Time Warner — He joins as VP of corporate affairs, media adviser — Veteran media scribe Richard Siklos is joining Time Warner as a VP in corporate affairs handling external communications and advising on media strategy. — Siklos will report to Gary Ginsberg …

Connie Schultz / Poynter Online:

Why Connie Schultz Won't Give up on the Fight for Good Journalism — Shortly before I started writing this essay, I listened to a voice message from a reader named Ellen who wanted me to know about the tip jar at her niece's place of employment. — “She works the ﬁsh fry on Friday's,” she told me.

Tim Arango / Media Decoder:

Michael Wolff to Lead a Stable of Trade Magazines — Michael Wolff, the Vanity Fair columnist and troublemaker who seems to relish public feuds and collecting enemies as much as chronicling the folkways of the Manhattan media world, has agreed to become editorial director of a group …

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Two situations, two attitudes — Le Monde and The Daily Telegraph. Two leading newspapers. Last month, both had parallel experiences when dealing with government leaks. Two delicate situations, two reactions - or, at least, two postures. — On September 13th, Le Monde proclaimed …

Discussion: Guardian

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

As Tech Blogs Grow up, Can They Transcend Their Founders? — It's Possible, but for Many the Results Remain to Be Seen — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — They started out as personal obsessions and evolved into agenda-setting news outlets proffering snap judgments on everything from Yahoo's executive drama to Google's new URL shortener.

MG Siegler / parislemon:

On AOL... Again — The question I probably get asked most often is: “what does ParisLemon stand for?” I usually just tell people it's not that interesting — because really, it's not. The fact of the matter is that it was just the random screen name I chose for myself on AOL when I was a kid.

Discussion: TechCrunch