From The Dallas Business Journal (via Romenesko):

The Dallas Morning News plans to offer buyouts to 50 or more employees as it restructures its news operation to focus more heavily on the Internet, sources familiar with the newspaper’s plans said.

At least one source familiar with the newspaper’s plans said the potential employee reductions likely will be much higher than 50.

Dallas-based Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC) began transforming its operations to be more multimedia oriented earlier this month with some 60 layoffs at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside Calif. Nearly all departments there faced reductions in a restructuring plan that includes an increased emphasis on breaking news and information via the Press-Enterprise’s Web site, pe.com.

Belo officials were not immediately available for comment.

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Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder — who may or may not be his generation’s Jim Morrison (only, you know, still very much alive) — walked onto the sparsely set Verizon Center stage Tuesday, clutching a bottle of wine and a notebook. He sat down before a microphone and sang, in that sonorous baritone, of fathers and sons, in a moving, almost meditative piece called “Man of the Hour.”

“Now the man of the hour is taking his final bow,” Vedder sang, his hunched frame bathed, for the moment, in red light. “As the curtain comes down/I feel that this is just g’bye for now.”

(From The Washington Post.)

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CBS News reports:

LANDSTUHL, Germany CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier will remain in Germany for a few more days before returning to the United States. She may fly back as early as Tuesday.

Though Dozier had been looking forward to going home Sunday, wounded soldiers with more urgent needs had to be flown out before her.

Dozier was critically injured Monday and two CBS cameramen, Paul Douglas and James Brolan, were killed by a roadside bomb while filming a story in Baghdad.

CBS News correspondent Kate Rydell, who flew with Dozier from Baghdad to Landstuhl, Germany, reports that staying a little longer here will mean Dozier is in better condition for the flight.

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