CBS News and Katie Couric look like they're headed for splitsville, more than a year before her contract with the network runs out.

The New York Times reported that CBS News, once the highest-rated and most distinguished network news organization, is considering outsourcing some news coverage to CNN.

While Rupert Murdoch gave Georgetown University students tips on how to take over the media world, big things were happening at his Wall Street Journal, including the newspaper improving its congressional coverage by upping its Capitol Hill bureau to three members.

Newsweek is offering more than 100 buyouts from a combination of the editorial and business sides, although the bigger names are still on board.

When Vogue management announced that LeBron James would be the first African-American male on its cover, they probably weren't expecting a barrage of complaints that the shot is racist.

Who will be at the top of the Newsday food chain, once Tribune Co. unloads the Long Island, NY, newspaper?

Looking towards the second quarter of 2008, the state of the news media is not strong, at least not according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Key point: the media's agenda is narrowing, not broadening, as many had expected, because of the empowerment of bloggers.

Three decades after the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment does not ban the federal government from regulating on-air speech, the justices allowed the Federal Communications Commission to defend its decision to fine networks for curse words.

When do journalists, or comedians, take themselves too seriously? Chris Mathews, for one, is upset that reporters and editors laughed at President Bush's rendition of "Green Grass of Home" at the Gridiron Club dinner.

Tucker Carlson, resident bow-tie wearer and conservative commentator at MSNBC, is out as host but will stay on as senior campaign correspondent.