Ailes intends to keep Fox on top the next five years.

CNN’s Roberts tries loosening up. No, not this much.

The Atlantic.com increases traffic post-election.

Obama transition team gets …

On Nov. 6, I reported that the NY Times White House team would include reporters Jeff Zeleny, Peter Baker, Helene Cooper, and Sheryl Gay Stolberg. That was according to my sources since bureau chief Dean Baquet hadn’t made a …

The Associated Press has set up a new regional editing operation and named two editors for top positions. 

Larry Rosenthal, news editor for the AP in Philadelphia, has been promoted to the new position of East editor. David Meeks, former …

Salon political writer Walter Shapiro, an e-mail published today in Playbook, wrote that the website “has suddenly slashed its small staff," including him. But Shapiro didn’t mention how many got the axe.

Editor-in-chief Joan Walsh, in an e-mail to Politico, …

The Washington Post looks at the inevitable drop in cable viewership since Election Day.

After peaking with a weekly average of 3.5 million viewers during prime time during election week, Fox News lost more than a million viewers the next …

The New York Post pointed out yesterday that David Letterman never brought up John McCain dissing him for Katie Couric, during the "CBS Evening News" anchor’s appearance on Wednesday’s show.

So last night, Letterman called up Couric to …

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 …