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Nov 20 2008 5:39pm EDT

Late Breaks: Slimming Down AP, and Fat Kids

-The Associated Press is planning to reduce its workforce by 10 percent next year -- by attrition, it's hoped. [Gawker]

-The National Institutes of Health believes that banning fast-food advertising aimed at kids would result in an 18 percent reduction in obesity among young children. [Ad Age]

-David Rhodes, the vice president of news for Fox News, is leaving to become head of television for Bloomberg. [TVNewser]

-Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, widely viewed as the likely eventual successor to New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., is leaving his job at The Oregonian to come work at the Times. [Willamette Week]

-Random House has frozen pensions for current employees and eliminated them for future workers. [NYT]. □

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