• Big shakeup at Yahoo includes resignation of former ABC head Lloyd Braun. [NYT]
  

This morning's WWD carried an article with a fairly comprehensive list of media holiday parties. Always on the cutting edge where service meets technology, your friends at Gawker are working on a map that will help all you wannabe Priyantha Silvas out there rub shoulders with drunk and frisky middle-management media types. (Alternately, it will help you know what to avoid.) Still, there are a couple of names missing from WWD's list: If you work for a media company that's throwing a holiday party (particularly Vogue, those tight-lipped mofos) or have knowledge of same, please send us the information, including date, time, and venue (or actual invitations, if possible). Do it for us, and do it for Priyantha.

• Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Paul Steiger set to retire at the end of next year. [NYP]
  

Reporting wunderkind Sewell Chan notes the following quote from Mayor Bloomberg in the current New York mag profile: "What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?" Chan compares this with earlier accounts that put the mayor's height at 5-feet-10. (We've seen the mayor and, uh, no.) There's an editor's note at the end of the piece stating that "The author of this story is no taller than 5 feet, 7 inches." Which got us wondering: Who are the tallest and shortest figures in New York media? Since we try to avoid the parties, we're not sure: Help us out. Does Joe Dolce bestride the earth like some giant douchebag colossus? Is Elizabeth Spiers really as tiny as she looks in print? Who's more vertical, Frank Bruni or Frank Rich? This is important stuff, people. Make us proud on this one and we'll move on to cock size. Thanks.

• The secret to Headline News' success? Bloviators, and plenty of 'em. [NYT]
  

• A group of Columbia journalism students allegedly cheated on an ethics exam. There go those cushy Voice gigs. [Radar]
  

That seemingly endless series of Times stories on the superrich got us thinking: Is this the start of a new trend? As it turns out, not exactly: Details covered very similar ground six months ago. But did fawning profiles of the obnoxiously wealthy really begin back in June? We sent Intern Mary on a quest back through the years in pursuit of superrich stories. The shocking results after the jump.

• Arthur Sulzberger may try to take the New York Times private rather than see it fall into the hands of Hank Greenberg or Jack Welch. [BW]
  

So the big news in media circles, if you care about that sort of thing (and, really, what's more exciting, Danny DeVito drunk on 'The View'? We think not.), is Maurice "Hank" Greenberg's plan to buy the New York Times. This morning's Post reported that the "billionaire insurance titan" has been "buying huge blocks of New York Times stock to break the Sulzberger family's stranglehold on the media empire." This afternoon, CNBC's Charlie Gasparino (yeah, just pretend that you know who he is) advanced the story, claiming

• We think it's kind of tacky to mock a Parkinson's patient for writing a doddering, fogeyish column about the Internet. So we'll let Wonkette do it. Anyway, our guess as to the mystery journalist is Kaus. [Slate]
  

• Supreme Court allows federal prosecutors to look at Judy Miller's phone records. Why do we even bother with a First Amendment? [NYT]
  

• How long will Sumner Redstone hold on to Midway games? Hopefully, long enough to give us a few more Photoshopped pieces like the one above. [NYT]
  

A reader excited by the prospect that Variety might be evolving its coverage of the industry to more directly appeal to subscribers with a healthy interest in upskirt photography directed us to page 9 of today's paper, where an otherwise fairly dry story about November sweeps is enlivened with this promotional photo of Heroes' indestructible cheerleader inadvertently showing off her spanky pants. (The online version of the article uses a different, more modest image, in case you were wondering.) It's probably not racy enough to get a Charlie Sheen-level cheer-porn connoisseur all hot and bothered, but it might do the trick for an assistant looking for a way to kill some time in an empty office before the Thanksgiving holiday.

• Is Rupert Murdoch losing it? Surprisingly, a rival paper thinks yes. [Telegraph U.K.]
  

• News headline disappointingly misleading. [NYDN]
  

• David Carr discovers TMZ.com, "the limitless appeal of the famous performing the mundane ." [NYT]
  

• Guy who told Murdoch to buy MySpace quits. [Guardian]
  

• Jeff Zucker may take over for Bob Wright as head of NBC by the end of the year. Honestly, you get the feeling that Zucker could rip the head off a transgendered prostitute and skullfuck it in the middle of a board meeting and he'd still get promoted. [NYP]
  

• Washington Post shrinking. Yes, yes, "tightening up the paper's news hole," is a funny phrase. [WaPo
  

• NBC News layoffs: Dateline, Today hardest hit. Ann Curry still there, unfortunately. [LAT]