• Carl Kassel retires from NPR after 30 years as the voice of "Morning Edition." - TVNewser

• Time Publishing unloaded Governing magazine to e.Republic., leaving Time with zero Washington holdings - FishbowlDC

• Wikipedia's obsessive chroniclers no longer cool with being used as primary source for college kids, news organizations. - Baynewser

• How not to apply for a media job. - MediaJobsDaily

WebNewser: BNO News is launching a subscription-only newswire next year, and its first client is MSNBC.com.

AgencySpy: Meet the new AOL: Aol.

GalleyCat: Now you can immortalize your tweets in print.

New York Times: A number of media companies have posted World War II-era Britain-inspired signs telling staffers to "Keep calm and carry on". Wonder if any one is following that advice.

Newsweek/Mediaite: Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari chronicles his ordeal in prison in Iran in this week's cover story, and mentions that a "Daily Show" segment that ran shortly after after his arrest was used by his captors as evidence that he was a spy.

The nonprofit Community Service Society of New York is launching a journalism experiment, by buying investigative public policy publication City Limits for $200,000.

CSS plans to retain the title's current staff and name, and will invest $1 million into it, in the hopes of spinning it off into an independent publication within six months, Crain's reports.

CSS's vice president of government relations and public affairs, Walter Fields, will be taking over the role of publisher, and he plans to immediately revamp the magazine's Web site and increase the print pub's frequency to eight times a year up from four. The magazine will also be available on newsstands.

Recently, a slew of nonprofit investigative news outlets have taken root, from The Huffington Post's new venture to The Texas Tribune. Following this nonprofit model, and backed by a powerful nonprofit group, City Limits has the chance to add to the discourse in New York City in a positive way. But CSS president David Jones promises the pub will act independently, albeit with a clear mission:

"Clearly the news environment in New York City has changed dramatically. The discussion on many of the things we work on -- poverty, the working poor and moderate income people -- doesn't get much space in mainstream media."

NYC nonprofit takes on journalism assignment --Crain's New York Business

Related: HuffPo Launching Nonprofit Investigative Journalism Venture

When Oprah Winfrey's talk show leaves broadcast television in 2011, the magazine that bears her name, Hearst's O, The Oprah Magazine will lose an important cross-promotional tool. But, the media company is not worried about that just yet, instead focusing on planning that's already underway for events tied to the magazine's tenth anniversary next May, WWD reports.

What's more, Keith Kelly believes a redesign will accompany the anniversary for the magazine. However, a spokesperson for the magazine told FishbowlNY:

"[Editor-in-chief] Susan Casey and her new team are making subtle changes to the magazine's design, and while there will be more changes to come in the 10th anniversary year, it is too early to discuss them at this point."

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If you just so happen to have a funny story of political fiction knocking around your hard drive, we have just the contest for you.

Following their political fiction package in this week's issue -- published to coincide with Sarah Palin's questionably factual memoir -- New York magazine is asking readers to submit their own short stories, movie treatments, one-act plays or whatever you like -- 1,000 words or so about political figures.

The best submissions will be published on NYMag.com all week, and the top three winners will get prizes like a night at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., where Eliot Spitzer famously met Ashley Dupre; dinner for two at Obama date spot Blue Hill; and a copy of Going Rogue and a one-month membership to Playgirl.com.

The contest ends December 7, so you better get to writing.

The Political Fictions Project --New York

"Can we take a strategy to build a political candidate and apply it to a magazine like Vogue?" posited Tom Florio, publishing director for the fashion title and other Condé Nast pubs, in today's Wall Street Journal.

The strategy in question would be the one designed by Blue State Digital, an online consulting agency that implemented a "relationship ladder" schema for their work with Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and is now working with Vogue to identify new ways for the magazine to interact with its audience.

While it might seem like a strange leap to go from political canvasing to couture outreach, Blue State is confident what worked for Obama can work for Anna Wintour.

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Here's some early holiday cheer for the magazine industry: Rodale Inc., which holds such fitness titles as Men's Health, Runner's World and Bicycling magazine, has just hired one of its freelance contributors as fitness editor for Prevention magazine.

Jessica Cassity has recently worked as a freelance fitness writer for The New York Times, Fitness, Self, Shape and Weight Watchers, as well as Prevention. Previously, she was a contributing editor at Health magazine.

Cassity also co-created the Pilates instructor Web site www.pilates-pro.com and worked as Soho community leader for Lululemon, where she managed the apparel company's community-based programs like free yoga in Bryant Park.

Full press release after the jump.

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Five McClatchy Co. newspapers, The Sacramento Bee in California, North Carolina's Charlotte Observer, The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, The Anchorage Daily News in Alaska and The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., are now available on the Kindle.

The media company made announcement about the digital distribution of their papers on Friday via Facebook, using social media to introduce their new formats to the world. Although these new versions are available for free for a two-week trial period, they will then cost $6.99 for a monthly subscription and be delivered daily to Kindles every morning.

The Daily News and the Bee introduced digital versions in October, while the other papers debuted in mid-November.

More McClatchy papers, like The Kansas City Star and The Miami Herald will be available on the Kindle soon, the company said.

The Kindle version allows readers to gain portable access to these local papers nationwide, so it is possible it will increase readership. But the nagging media question remains: why pay for digital content you can get it online for free?

McClatchy Launches Digital Editions on the Kindle --Editor & Publisher

Related: McClatchy Q3 Earnings: Ad Revenue Down, Circulation Revenue Up

Two weeks ago, Rupert Murdoch announced that he would be taking content from his News Corp entities like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post off of Google's search engines, ostensibly because the man doesn't know jack about the Internet and can't tell the difference between a search engine and an aggregator.

But as last night's news broke that Microsoft, which just launched its own search engine Bing to compete with Google, is in talks with the Australian mogul in the hopes of paying him to remove his listings from its rival, we have to amend our previous statement. Crazy? Yes. Crazy like a fox.

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It's the start of a short week, and the promise of turkey is making it difficult for us to concentrate on today's media news. Thankfully, Jason Boog of GalleyCat and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven, hosts of the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu, are not having the same problem.

This morning, Jason and Matt discussed a wide range of media news, from the most recent Twilight movie, New Moon, and its big opening weekend, to Rupert Murdoch's plans to remove his Web content from Google.

"It does seem like a way to really annoy readers, however," Jason said about Murdoch's rumored plans. "I'm thinking of being a reader right now, and just the idea that I have to go from one search engine to the other to find the news that I want, it doesn't sound like a very pleasant experience."

Lastly, Matt and Jason talked about Glenn Beck's plans to position himself as a "political organizer," planning voter registration drives, conferences and rallies. "I think it's being a little more savvy than being a straight up politician," Jason said of Beck's plans.

You can listen to all the past podcasts at BlogTalkRadio.com/mediabistro and call in at 646-929-0321.

After undertaking layoffs last week, BusinessWeek is now facing a daunting future as it rebuilds and repurposes itself under Bloomberg LP's leadership. And as departing tech writer Stephen Baker points out, it looks like the company's library is trying to have grim sense of humor about the whole thing.

As Marion Maneker writes on The Big Money today, incoming editor Josh Tyrangiel has his work cut out for him, but the former Time editor and business journalism outsider may just be what the struggling magazine needs:

"In buying BW, Bloomberg has acquired the infrastructure of a magazine, but little in the way of editorial assets to exploit. In hiring Tyrangiel, it still hasn't cracked the editorial conundrum. A fluid writer, a no-nonsense manager, and an editor with a broad range of interests, Tyrangiel's greatest success at Time was his ability to coax the editorial staff onto the Web by using what Tyrangiel often calls 'medium recognition.' That's the awareness of what kind of content works best in print or on the Web -- and having the ability to execute against that awareness. Medium recognition isn't the whole solution to the editorial riddle, but it is a big start. ...

Where BusinesWeek goes from here will be a litmus test for magazines and media. The Bloomberg team swears by the magazine and says they plan to invest in it heavily. The imperatives of the 21st century surely mean they will take another run at figuring out BusinessWeek.com. And despite Tyrangiel's lack of formal credentials as a business journalist, he had tremendous success in building Time.com's Web traffic over a few years. (Of course, he had corporate access to the CNN.com juggernaut for help.)"

Will Tyrangiel follow Maneker's advice and model BusinessWeek after New York magazine?

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