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Stanford University has announced some changes to its Knight Fellowship program. Per the release:

Beginning with the 2009-10 fellowship year, the program will put a new emphasis on journalistic innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership.

The program is transforming itself in order to serve the needs of journalism and journalists as much in the years ahead as it has in the past. The dizzying landscape of layoffs and consolidation, Internet media sites, citizen journalism and bloggers make journalism a chaotic and exciting proposition today. We are making bold changes to meet these new realities.

More details here.

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Original post by Lux Alptraum

To every increasingly dark and consuming cloud there is a silver lining! Six Apart has just announced its own Journalist Bailout Program in the form of free pro accounts on TypePad for journalists and professional bloggers who have recently lost their jobs. That is no small offer these days! In case you’re wondering the pro account differs from the regular one in so far as it “allows multiple authors and blogs as well as more storage and control over the design.” Also, Six Apart is throwing in “a spot in the Six Apart Media advertising program, promotion on Blogs.com and other information and advice in how to succeed in online journalism.” Says founder Anil Dash:

I know that journalists are a skeptical bunch, so I’m not trying to bullshit anyone: The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program is not a silver bullet…It’s not going to singlehandedly preserve the career and income of every working journalist who has a job today. And frankly, the response has been so overwhelming that we won’t be able to accept every application at first.

Still, this is apparently a limited time offer so get yours in now!

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media

Original post by Lux Alptraum

Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast, which has been making headlines since it launched last month, threw a launch part of sorts at Pop Burger in the meat-packing district last night. Everyone’s favorite late-night eatery was a far cry from the extravagant Liberty Island party that heralded the launch of Talk, Brown’s last media (ad)venture. But these are tough times! And believe us when we say no one in the packed crowd of the usual media suspects (and Christopher Buckley) was complaining about the open bar or the platters of mini burgers that circulated the room.

While Brown was greeted with a certain amount of skepticism when she initially announced her plans to launch, with the help of Barry Diller, what would become the Beast, the site has managed to establish itself incredibly quickly, helped along no doubt by the sudden influx of good (unemployed) writers on the market.

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Original post by DCypher

William Kristol is apparently ambivalent about his future at the New York Times (according to Jeff Bercovici he was obviously embarrassed to be introduced at yesterday’s IFC panel as a Times columnist). Kristol, whose hiring by the Times earlier this year was met with great criticism, had this to say regarding his Times contract, which is up for renewal in January: “I’m ambivalent. It’s been fun. It’s a lot of work. I have a lot of things going on. But I haven’t really focused on it.” Uh huh, we are skeptical that anyone could truly be that ambivalent about giving up the most coveted op-ed real estate in newspapers, but maybe Kristol is trying to make a graceful-ish exit. That said, the New Yorker’s George Packer thinks Kristol’s ambivalence is exactly why the Times should give him the boot:

The real grounds for firing Kristol are that he didn’t take his column seriously. In his year on the Op-Ed page, not one memorable sentence, not one provocative thought, not one valuable piece of information appeared under his name.

Meanwhile, back at the IFC panel (read TVNewser’s coverage here) there were apparently some tense moments between Kristol and Pete Hamill over the Iraq War coverage. Video courtesy of TVNewser after the jump.

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Original post by Lux Alptraum

Obviously Barack Obama is the Person of the Year, for Time and probably anyone else for that matter. Who knows, considering the state of the country he is about to take over he may very well turn into the Person of the Century. At yesterday’s Time Person of the Year luncheon (watch video highlights here) convened to discuss such matters ‘iron man’ panelist Brian Williams (he’s the longest running panelist) said that Obama matches “every qualification that we have [in the POY] book” and that “we have but one choice.” Elizabeth Edwards said that it was too early to award the man Obama (he may very well be POY next year) but felt it was more what he represented.

The interesting part, however, was that at (Obama’s) Person of the Year lunch almost all the talk was about the economy. Suze Orman, in her deep commanding (somewhat frightening) way, informed the audience that in terms of the tanking economy “we haven’t seen anything yet” (at which point the Time exec behind us grabbed our arm in not so fake panic). Later she suggested that perhaps the Wall St. types and the American consumer should be nominated in a “negative way” as the ones that have “honest to God, not just changed the economy of the United States but have brought down the economy of the world.” Then she said “Shame on you!” (quite loudly, in fact). Also, apparently Orman was the person fellow panelist Seth Meyers called for advice on whether to buy an apartment — the answer is no, see earlier statement re: we haven’t seen anything yet. After which, Brian Williams explained to us why he had his blackberry strapped to his chair so that he could feel it vibrate.

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Original post by Lux Alptraum