The Daily Beast took a stab at one of the harder sciences of the media world last night, publishing a list of the top 25 most influential right-wing journalists in America. It is a pretty comprehensive list, with all the usual suspects - Matt Drudge, George Will, almost everyone on Fox News prime time - making appearances, and both conservative and libertarian columnists taken into consideration. "What unites them all, broadly," writes columnist Tunku Varadarajan, "is their influence on the public debate, and their place on the political spectrum—which is somewhere to the right of center." (more...)

David Folkenflik is NPR's media correspondent and the man whom Geraldo Rivera once called "a really weak-kneed, backstabbing, sweaty-palmed reporter." His professional record indicates otherwise: Folkenflik has won numerous awards for press criticism and investigative reporting, and has broken/advanced the ball on many big media stories like the Tribune Co. woes as well as bringing nuance to the complicated story of Kurt Eichenwald. In addition to a face for radio, he's got one for TV, providing media analysis for numerous network and cable news shows. Today he answers our 5QQ - Five Quick Questions. We bet his palms are sweating. (more...)

Everyone wants to know where Sarah Palin will land next. Homemaker? Talk show host? We'd be happy just to be able to pinpoint her on twitter. Now Inside Radio is speculating she may be testing the talk radio waters. (more...)

It may still be possible to divide the world into three categories of morning news consumption: those who get it from newspapers, those who get it from cable television, and those who get it from NPR. I stopped buying the paper a while ago (notwithstanding the Sunday Times), and those of you who listened to the podcast run by myself and Steve Krakauer while we were still at mediabistro.com will already know that I am not a consumer of cable TV. So that lands me firmly in the NPR category. I am not alone. NPR has a LOT of listeners. Something to the tune of 30 million per week. Weekend Edition Saturday alone has 4.2 million listeners - which gives it, on average, 400,000 more people than Meet the Press, and 1 million more than This Week. (more...)