TMZ reported earlier today that, according to unnamed sources; "Jay Leno is going back to his 11:30 PM time slot, and it's looking like Conan O'Brien is the odd man out." This came after rumors hit the Internet earlier in the day that Leno had been canceled. While nothing has been officially announced, Bill Carter reports that NBC executives "did not deny a report posted by the website TMZ that NBC was considering making the switch and replacing Mr. O’Brien at “Tonight” with Mr. Leno." (more...)

Double X, the women-oriented website launched by Slate will be folded back into the larger site come the new year. From the New York Times Media Decoder post: (more...)

Shortly after Lou Dobbs announced his decision to leave CNN, he received his first going-away present: a "Worst Person in the World" bronze medal, courtesy of Keith Olbermann. (more...)

Yesterday afternoon the New York Times announced it would be cutting 100 newsroom jobs, about 8% total, by the end of the year. To do so the paper would first be "offering buyouts to union and non-union employees, and resorting to layoffs if it cannot get enough people to leave voluntarily." The layoff announcement reportedly took the newsroom by surprise (despite Bill Keller's continuing dire pronouncements about the state of the Times), it also apparently put the scare into NYT.com readers. (more...)

The New York Times Social Media Editor Jen Preston (@NYT_JenPreston) has come under fire in the past for not using her Twitter account to its greatest effect (or at all, before she was hired for the job). But Preston took to Twitter like an expert last night to engage in a discussion over the NYT.com's controversial removal of a Media Decoder post. (more...)

Media Decoder reports that last week, ABC averaged an abysmal 1.1 rating among 18- to 49-year-old viewers for the third time this summer, putting it behind CBS, NBC, Fox, and even Univision. There's no doubt that a lot of ABC execs have been getting stern talkings-to from their superiors lately, but Steve McPherson, the president of ABC Entertainment Group, has to be sweating harder than most. Last month, his counterpart at NBC Entertainment, Ben Silverman, stepped down after a difficult tenure. NBC's entertainment ratings have hovered around dead last, and ABC's just ahead of them, and since Silverman's departure there have been murmurs that McPherson might be next to the chopping block. (more...)