Sometimes these things just speak for themselves. Here’s a hilarious post from FishbowlNY about a New York Times writer who’s leaving the Gray Lady for… well, just read on:

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.

Well, this is a surprise! Dan Abrams, who just so happens to be Mediaite’s founder, won FishbowlNY‘s “most influential media person of 2009″ poll. Abrams came in at 34% of the vote, followed by Rupert Murdoch at 21% and Arianna Huffington at 15%. Simple arithmetic would seem to indicate that that means that he is just slightly less influential than Rupert Murdoch and Arianna Huffington combined. Maybe next year …

Bloomberg, which acquired Business Week last month, announced this week that they were looking to layoff 100 positions or 25% of its staff. Judging from Twitter it looks like the layoffs took place today (h/t FishbowlNY).

According to Newsweek no one in their “right mind” thinks newspapers will or should survive in their current state. Saving print is the equivalent of saving horse drawn carriages or steam engines. It’s time for newspapers to die, says the magazine that just overhauled its print version at great expense.

Happy Anniversary Great Recession. A year ago today Lehman Bros. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and sent the economy into a tailspin the country is still struggling to cope with. Here’s a look back at the top five media moments from the last twelve months.

A friend waits in a doctor’s office and notices that everyone around him is tap-tap-tapping away at their iPhone and completely ignoring the table full of magazines. This scene is a nightmare for magazine editors who are ever-worried about remaining relevant and somehow carving out a digital presence for themselves online and increasingly in our pockets. But unfortunately for them iPhone apps do not relevance (nor money!) make. At least not yet.

There’s been lot’s of nicely ironic, hullabaloo these last few days regarding Chris Anderson being cited for plagiarism in his new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. The trickiness of using Wikipedia as a source was given as one of the reasons the attributions had been left out. Anderson said he publishers were “uncomfortable with the changing nature of Wikipedia,” and wanted him to note the date he had viewed the page, which Anderson felt was “clumsy and archaic.” In actuality this entire episode feels “clumsy and archaic”, much like the medium of the printed word!