Washington Post "We are not a national news organization of record serving a general audience. Nor are we a wire service or cable channel," says Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli, who is shutting his paper's Chicago, Los...

San Francisco Chronicle release The Chronicle will be the exclusive presenter in the Bay Area for the San Francisco Panorama, a 300-plus-page, single-edition newspaper published by Dave Eggers's McSweeney's. The paper comes out Dec. 8. ||...

Wall Street Journal Under a deal reached last week, Playboy will turn over all of its operations except the editorial ones to American Media Inc. The five-year partnership will help return the magazine to profitability by the end of 2011, says Playboy...

New York Observer John Koblin reports Time Inc., Conde Nast and Hearst are expected to join the company, which will prepare magazines that can work across multiple digital platforms -- the iPhone and Blackberry included -- and sell the...

Memo to NPR employees 11/23/2009 10:22 AM After 30 years of waking up at 1:05 a.m. to anchor the top of the hour newscast during Morning Edition, Carl Kasell has decided the time has come to sleep in. He will leave his newscast post at the end of...