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Oprah's BFF and longtime broadcaster Gayle King dishes on her jump from TV to radio and magazines, the possibility of her own show, and Winfrey's forthcoming cable network.
So What Do You Do, Gayle King, O Editor-at-Large and Sirius XM Host?

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Fark Teams Up With USA Today (Mediaite)
Fark, one of the oldest and strangest crowdsourced news aggregators on the Internet, is teaming up with USA Today. Fark will be getting USA Today's exclusive sponsorship for its geek page, which will throw more USA Today stories into the mix and turn over ad placement to the paper.

State Department Spruces Up With Help From Shelter Mag (Politico)
The State Department has partnered with the magazine industry to help decorate 17 rooms for the holiday season. The rooms are in the State Department's Harry S. Truman Building and Blair House, both of which are located in Washington.

Booksellers Remain Anxious (WSJ)
They have the books. Now they need the customers. With Christmas less than five weeks away, the two largest booksellers in the U.S. are concerned that the weak economy will keep shoppers from walking in, snapping up best sellers from Dan Brown, Stephen King, and Sarah Palin and buying more.

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Today's guest on the Morning Media Menu was Isobella Jade, the petite model who wrote her memoir in an Apple Store--building an impressive author platform from scratch.

Here's an excerpt: "No matter what your book is about, there's going to be a reporter or publication out there that might want to quote you. I think it comes down to analyzing you--analyzing who you are and what you can offer... I thought, 'What is it about my book to make this marketable, to make it interesting so a newspaper would care to quote me or feature my story?'"

The show also discussed layoffs and closures that rocked the media world this week: the Washington Post closing LA, NYC and Chicago bureaus, more cuts at Time, Inc., and the closure of InStyle Weddings.

The show was hosted by GalleyCat editor Jason Boog and FishbowlNY editor Amanda Ernst. You can listen to all the past podcasts archived at mediabistro.com or download episodes for free on iTunes.

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