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May 07 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Tina Brown, Uma Thurman, 'WSJ'...

-Washington Post editor Len Downie is going to take a buyout, and David Ignatius and Newsweek's Jon Meacham are the top contenders to replace him. All of this is per Page Six, mind you, so, you know. [P6]

-Tina Brown's new web venture is already shedding staff. [NYP]

-Sponsor a horse race, and you run the risk of sponsoring a horse-killing. [NYT]

-Wall Street Journal reporter Emily Steel was on the jury that convicted Uma Thurman's stalker. She relates how the case literally haunted her dreams. [WSJ]

-Meanwhile, Journal publisher Robert Thomson has the paper's staff in a state of heightened paranoia. [NYO]

-Also related: The Journal and the Times of London are going to be cooperating more closely, in particular to send each other web traffic. Thomson came to the Journal from the Times. [Paid Content]. □

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