And the new TVNewser blogger is…

Chris Ariens, a former MSNBC executive producer, according to Jossip.com.

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Earnings down sharply at newspaper companies

The bleeding hasn’t stopped at McClatchy, Dow Jones and Media General — three newspaper companies that announced difficult Q2 earnings.

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CBS content to appear on 400 sites

CBS execs say that’s the goal — syndicate the network’s content to 400 sites by this fall. “CBS is all about open, nonexclusive partnerships,” CBS Interactive president Quincy Smith said. “Just CBS.com is not the answer.” The network has already partnered with 24 sites — and spent aggressively in paid search — and execs say the end result has been a huge surge in unique users from 21M to 134M a month.

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Bush tries unsuccessfully to kill PBS funding

Even the vast majority of House Republicans voted against Bush’s plan to eliminate the $420 million federal subsidy for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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Scripps buys Recipezaar

Scripps Networks, which owns the Food Network, bought the Seattle online recipe site Recipezaar for somewhere in the $25 million range. Recipezaar generates 30M monthly page views on 2.5 million uniques. Reports John Cook in the Seattle PI:

The sale of Recipezaar is a true entrepreneurial success story. Started in the Vashon Island home of the husband-and-wife team of Hakala and Gilmore, the company survived some lean years during the dot-com bust. Recipezaar never took outside capital and never spent any money on marketing, simply building through word of mouth a Web site that could help cooks exchange their favorite recipes.

Wow, good for them. I bet they’re eating well tonight.

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Murderer’s Press Conference, 2008

First, I’d like to thank the members of the media I credentialed for my post-arraignment for coming. Thanks to precedents set by sports leagues and political events, news must now follow the guidelines set by all its subjects and that really takes the heat off the rest of us. So I appreciate it that all the local news organizations agreed to come here, share one camera, stay 100 yards away, ask only the questions sent in to your website and screened by my lawyers and then pre-answered in my emails. Freedom of the press goes both ways, y’all.

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