Skewed urban cityscape, out—slick nested “C”s, in. Comedy Central just announced that it’s replacing its old logo with the new one at left, starting January 1. The shift is the cable network’s first major revamp in 10 years, according to Alex Weprin at FishbowlNY.

As the New York Times reports today, Hollywood trade publications have been slowly dying for years—due mainly to ever-decreasing ad revenues and stiff competition from blogs like Nikki Finke‘s Deadline Hollywood. The Hollywood Reporter, however, isn’t going down without a fight.

When Mail.com bought Nikki Finke‘s Hollywood bible of a industry gossip blog, Deadline Hollywood, for an undisclosed heaping pile of money last summer, the new pair also announced they would be expanding east. Now, Finke has announced that the forthcoming Deadline New York will be edited by 20-year Variety “superstar” Mike Fleming. And the Old Guard migration to the Web continues.

Newspapers are dying, magazines are dying: this is the story of 2009 where the media is concerned. However, the future of media, such as it is, does not look quite so dim. Or dim at all, really. Obviously, the brave new media world that we are slowly moving into (some at a quicker pace than others!) will look entirely different in twelve months’ time, likely in large part due to the efforts of the folks we listed on our online editors of the year poll. So who gets the final nod? Our picks below: feel free to add yours in the comments section.

If 2009 was a tough year for magazines and newspapers — and boy, was it ever — it was a bang-up year for the editors of the blogs listed here. Now we are asking you, our loyal, smart, and attractive readers to share your thoughts on who had the biggest year in the Online Editor category:

Many of the news outlets which reported that Disney was buying Marvel noted that the deal was worth $4 billion, tacked on a few Disney-Marvel mashup jokes,(“Spider Mickey,” etc.) and left it at that. Fortunately, Nikki Finke‘s Deadline Hollywood Daily has been on the scene, netting exclusive after exclusive and combining superb, deep-digging reporting with insightful commentary.