Jailed press baron Conrad Black, currently serving a six-and-a-half year term from defrauding shareholders, is asking President Bush for a pardon, according The Times of London.  Black’s media empire once included The Daily Telegraph, Chicago Sun-times, Jerusalem Post, and …

Conservative talk-show hosts warned listeners all year that an Obama presidency, coupled with a Democratic Congress, could lead to the reinstatement of the fairness doctrine, a now-defunct FCC policy that forced broadcasters to present a balance of political views. …

Matthews was better behaved today on "Ellen."

Letterman never asked Couric about McCain snub.

AP’s cutting up to 10 percent of staff.

Third-party candidates were once again ignored in campaign coverage. …

Last week, I asked Cissy Baker—now bureau chief of the combined Tribune bureau in D.C.—about who’d cover the Obama White House. Baker said that specific beats wouldn’t be assigned until after “all the dust settles” from the shake-up …

Besides the people scrambling for papers on Nov. 5, newspapers continue reaping the benefits of Obama’s win. The LA Times James Rainey finds out how much his paper’s made off Obama-related merchandise in the past couple weeks.

Ron Hasse, …

In yet another sign of difficulties within the newspaper industry, The New York Times Company just announced that the board’s cutting the quarterly dividend from $.23 to $.06 a share.

"This was a difficult but necessary decision that …

Today’s news from an NBC affiliate: "Dingell Buried by Waxman"

Last Thursday, while reporting a story on conservative magazines, Bill Kristol told me that he hadn’t yet spoken to the New York Times about whether he would stay on after his one-year columnist contract expires in early 2009. …

Both Drudge and HuffPost heard that Fox News chief Roger Ailes is signing a new contract to remain at News Corp — still developing, on both ends.

A Fox spokesperson confirmed to Politico that Ailes is staying on, …

Newsweek editor Jon Meacham talked up his new Andrew Jackson bio last night with Jon Stewart before explaining why the magazine permits embargoed campaign reporting, the basis for its 50,000-word, election postmortem.

"You really have a choice," …