In your rumormongering Friday media column: rumors of Newsweek's bleak near future, another Rupert Murdoch paywall, buzzy broadcasters revealed, Dennis Kneale reportedly leaving CNBC, and Doug McKelway gets canned.

In your hope-infested Thursday media column: the Right Nation is not media-friendly, layoffs at the Miami Herald, the NYT PR department is getting poach-y, and an offer of help for stiffed Paste freelancers.

In your crowdsourced Monday media column: The Huffington Post covers the hell out of Arianna Huffington; Janice Min refuses to be spoon fed; and the New York Times lets NYU students loose on its blog.

In your class warrior Thursday media column: the media is congenitally unable to stop covering stupid stories, Mississippi's Fresh Air censor resigns, more theories of David Westin's departure, and Paste magazine freelancers are left high and dry.

News Corp rolled out a paywall at two of its major UK papers. It's not going well. The New York Times is scheduled to roll out its own paywall in January. Should anyone there be having second thoughts?

The Wall Street Journal is really taking this "anything the New York Times does we can do better" fantasy very seriously! The latest shot across the NYT's bow: a WSJ book review section. Is the world ready for that?

New York Times Co. stock surged today on Carlos Slim takeover rumors. (Again.) UPDATE: Denied.

In your celebratory Wednesday media column: Brandon Holley makes it back to the magazine world, Tina Brown vows not to join the magazine world, Arianna Huffington's in her own world, and the WSJ's digital prez is out.

The New York Post reports today that a woman was raped near Penn Station early Monday morning. Police quickly caught the perp, who had a long rap sheet. What do the Post's famously insightful commenters have to say about this?

In your terrific Tuesday media column: Simon & Schuster stands up for its in-house plagiarist, Jon Capehart pranked on the Twitter, the force behind David Westin's departure, and bad times in newspaper-land.

Newspapers are thinking about the internet! Now, in 2010. America's greatest broadsheets are having Very Sober Discussions of the implications of "web traffic" on Serious Journalism. Will you internet hordes destroy Real Journalism, by reading things you like?

In your pre-vacation Friday media column: the AP warns reporters on war propaganda, another Newsweek departure, China's "future of journalism" candidate, and ABC pulls a story, while standing by it.

Peter Orszag, the possibly-bald former White House Budget Director with an attractive woman or two at his side, is the newest Op-Ed columnist at the New York Times. But only once or twice a month. Lazy bum. [NYT]

In your tripping Thursday media column: Bill Keller hollers back at the WSJ, Sharon Waxman's upset at every little thing, National Journal keeps hiring, and the Deseret News welcomes its future as a Mormon PR operation.

Weird playboy billionaire Jeff Greene, still bitter over his random, failed Senate campaign in Florida, will sue two newspapers for $500 million over some inaccuracies in their otherwise brutal campaign exposes. He's really not taking this loss well, huh?

In your foreboding Wednesday media column: cutbacks small and large at CBS, vague rumors of trouble at Paste Magazine, Rupert Murdoch made more money than you this year, and gossip, considered.

Fresh from a farewell dinner for departing New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt, the paper's standards editor, Phil Corbett, issued a memo to the newsroom yesterday on that perpetually controversial issue: use of anonymous sources. Full memo below.

Rev. Sun Myung Moon is buying back the Washington Times for a buck. Whatta deal!

In your to-the-point Tuesday media column: Mike Wise gets suspended, big layoffs at the Deseret News, CBS Evening News is in the dumps, and Nick Sylvester speaks.

In your wounded Monday media column: prestigious magazines clash over characterizations, Dana Milbank is now more ostensibly respectable, the alt-weekly war in San Fran rages on, and another departure at Forbes.com