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Creditors that are champing at the bit to push Sam Zell out of the Tribune Company might have to hold off as the company might actually be making some money, according to FishBowlNY.

White House Correspondents Association has picked this week’s most unpopular stand-up comic Jay Leno be the keynote speaker at this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner.

The new executive editor, Sylvie Kauffmann, 55, a former deputy executive editor and most recently a Southeast Asia correspondent for the paper. She is considered an expert in Eastern European politics and society.

Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Nik Deogun announced last month that he was leaving to become managing editor at CNBC. On Wednesday, some of the paper’s staff serenaded him with the following goodbye lyrics. (There was also a version of “Hit the Road, Nik,” sung to the theme of the Ray Charles song.)

Recognizing the importance of digital journalism to the future of the industry, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism today announced that it had raised $15 million to launch a new center focusing on just that.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has signed a multi-year deal with FOX News to serve as a contributor across all FOX News platforms, announced Bill Shine, Executive Vice President of Programming.

As the number of sources for news proliferates on digital platforms, most original reporting still comes from newspapers, television and radio.

A British journalist was killed alongside a U.S. marine in an attack on a military ­convoy in Afghanistan in a blast that injured several other people, including a photographer.

Nearly six months after Walter Cronkite’s death, his voice is leaving the “CBS Evening News.” His introduction of anchor Katie Couric was replaced Monday by a voiceover featuring actor Morgan Freeman.