Mediagazer: Does investing in print help the bottom line? … (Josh Tapper/Nieman Journalism Lab)

AOL, Firms Explore an Offer for Yahoo — AOL Inc. and several private-equity firms are exploring making an offer to buy Yahoo Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, devising a bold plan to marry two big Internet brands facing steep challenges. — Silver Lake Partners …

Discussion: BoomTown, Gawker, Silicon Alley Insider, New York Times, AdExchanger.com, paidContent, Digits, Hollywood Reporter, 24/7 Wall St., VentureBeat, The Next Web, Electronista and Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »

MediaShift:

Revamped Forbes Pushes Advertorials, Social Media, Conflict — Earlier this year Kevin Gentzel, the chief revenue officer of Forbes, took a look at what the chief marketing officers in the Forbes CMO Network were doing with their companies. He realized they were becoming content creators …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Hulu's “Modern Family” Problem — Hulu's pitch to viewers: We have all the great network TV shows you want to watch, for free. The pitch for Hulu Plus: Pay us $9.95 a month and you can watch even more episodes of those same shows. — But Hulu Plus can't show subscribers all of the episodes of all the shows in Hulu's catalog.

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:

Exclusive: Yahoo Hires Ex-Talking Points Blogger to Replace John Cook — Yahoo may be having trouble retaining top executives, but the company continues to hire high-profile bloggers to crank out original content. — On Wednesday, Yahoo is expected to announce the hiring of Zachary Roth …

Discussion: Romenesko and WebNewser

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Tribune Exec Lee Abrams Suspended — Tribune Co. chief innovation officer Lee Abrams, who was forced to apologize after sending a company-wide email containing racy video, has been suspended from his duties. Here's the memo:

Discussion: AdAge, Gawker, New York Magazine, New York Observer, Romenesko and The Huffington Post

Discussion: Chicago Breaking Business, Media Decoder, Chicago Tribune, Mixed Media, Gawker, Romenesko and FishbowlNY

Alex Weprin / mediabistro.com:

Comcast, NBCU Tout News, Public Interest Commitments for Proposed Deal in FCC Meeting — Comcast and NBC executives met with the FCC last week to tout the unified company's commitment to news and public interest programming once the acquisition of NBC Universal is completed, according to documents obtained by TVNewser.

Discussion: rbr.com and FishbowlNY

Josh Tapper / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Does investing in print help the bottom line? Discouraging evidence from the San Francisco Chronicle — The Globe and Mail is the latest newspaper to double down on print — investing big money in a new, glossy, full-color format aimed at making the value of news-on-paper more clear.

Discussion: The Snitch and Romenesko

Sergio Hernandez / Runnin' Scared:

SHOTS FIRED: Warring NYU Journos Will Destroy Each Other, and Then Themselves — NU's student-run blog NYU Local - not owned nor supervised by NYU - dispatched a writer to sit in with the NYU-owned and supervised campus newspaper, Washington Square News, for a series of features on student journalism at the school.

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

White House Meeting for Black Journalists Doesn't Stay Off-The-Record for Long — The White House is usually quite good at keeping a muzzle on the media after one of its off-the-record sessions with President Obama and senior members of his administration. — But not this week.

Discussion: Jack & Jill Politics and The Awl

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Uh Oh! What Happened To The New York Times iPad App? — If you happened to be cruising the news section of the App Store today, you may have noticed something peculiar — that being, the absence of The New York Times iPad app. (See screen grab at right)

Discussion: WebNewser

Jim O'Neill / Online Video News:

Google TV, Apple TV, iPads, a revolution of online video products fueled by Boomer buying power — I am a Baby Boomer. Class of '55, I get AARP magazine, but am still reluctant to ask for the 5 percent discount a local bakery gives “seniors” over 50. I find myself reaching for my reading glasses …

Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:

Current TV Attempts to Reboot — Now five-years-old, Current TV has failed to make a dent. But CEO Mark Rosenthal wants to broaden by doubling-down on investigative programming. He talks exclusively to Peter Lauria. — Early on in War on the Border, a three-part special examining …

Discussion: TVNewser, Romenesko and The Daily Beast

Mark Brown / Guardian:

Howard Jacobson wins Booker prize — • Jacobson's The Finkler Question comes out top in 3-2 vote — • Andrew Motion praises ‘clever, complicated, wise’ novel — Howard Jacobson's laugh-out-loud exploration of Jewishness, The Finkler Question, last night became …

Discussion: Observer and Omnivoracious

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:

Stories hidden in the data, stories in the comments — My attention was drawn this week by David Hayward to a visualisation by David McCandless of the tax gap (click on image for larger version). McCandless does some beautiful stuff, but what was particularly interesting in this graphic …

Boston Globe:

BU, Globe partner on ‘Your Town’ sites — Boston University journalism students will help to cover the city's neighborhoods and nearby communities for Boston.com's “Your Town” websites, The Boston Globe and the university said yesterday. — The students' coverage will add to a wide variety …

Discussion: Romenesko and Lost Remote

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

WP's Garcia-Ruiz named editor for strategic projects — Subject: Staff News: Emilio Garcia-Ruiz will take on a new role as Editor for Strategic Projects — We are delighted to announce that Emilio Garcia-Ruiz will take on a new role as Editor for Strategic Projects.

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Dude-Centric Video Network Break Media Goes After Hispanic Market With Tu Vez — Break Media, a social video and entertainment site for guys, is launching another vertical today: Tu Vez. Tu Vez is a Hispanic male-focused website that similar to Break's other male-focused video sites features video …

Discussion: NewTeeVee

Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:

Big media wants more piracy busting from Google — Filmmaker Ellen Seidler shows how a visit to a site that offers her pirated movie also displays ads via Google. — (Credit: Ellen Seidler) — When it comes to fighting online piracy, some music and film industry executives think Google could be doing more to help.

Discussion: The Next Web, PlagiarismToday, ClickZ and The Digital Home, more at Techmeme »

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

NPR staff told to stay away from Colbert, Stewart rallies if not covering them — From: [NPR chief executive] Vivian Schiller — Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 8:58 AM — Subject: FW: NPR Journalists and political activity — Please see Ellen Weiss' note to her staff below …

Discussion: Media Matters for America, Mediaite, New York Observer, Salon, Moraes on TV and The Huffington Post

Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:

“Public Media” $100 Million Plan: 100 Journalists Per City — We've seen lots of motion in the public radio world over the last year. We've seen 12 topical sites prominently launched in major cities, under the rubric of Project Argo. We've seen National Public Radio building out a state …

Discussion: Romenesko

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Newspapers Need to Do More Than Copy Groupon — Over the past year, Groupon has become a rocket-powered social shopping phenomenon. It's one of the fastest-growing startups in decades, is valued at more than $1 billion, and expects to close the year with almost $500 million in revenue.

Discussion: PR Newswire, Shaping the Future … and paidContent

Trevor Butterworth / Medialand:

Dim Reading in Geekville — On the eve of 2010, a year that would be a landmark in cyber-insecurity, the Washington Post downsized cybersecurity reporter, Brian Krebs. It sent something of a shockwave through the world he covered, where Krebs was widely respected not just for his doggedness …