FINAL CUTS: New York Post political editor quits; holiday cheer at Time Inc.

Joe Pompeo
·Media Reporter

Here's our list of media headlines that managed to evade the full-on blog treatment today:

• The New York Post's political editor has quit, reportedly because of a blow out with Aussie editor-in-chief and "tyrant" Col Allan. (Gawker)

• "Saturday Night Live" veteran Seth Meyers is set to headline this year's White House Correspondents Dinner. (Washington Post)

• At the UBS media conference on Wednesday, News Corp. COO Chase Carey sought to distance the company's growth potential from its newspapers. (Forbes/Mixed Media)

• The New York Times' chief Washington correspondent defended the paper's decision to publish classified information via WikiLeaks in light of Sen. Joe Lieberman's call for a criminal inquiry. (NPR)

• The Guardian says 54,000 people are accessing content behind the pay wall of News Corp's Times of London and Sunday Times. (Press Gazette)

• Happy holidays, employees of Time Inc: No end-of-year layoffs, plus ... a corporate Christmas party! (New York Post/Media Ink)

• Changes are coming to the 2011 Pulitzer competition. (Romenesko)

• AOL's hyperlocal community news network, Patch, launched its 500th site and has also killed at least one newspaper's pay-wall experiment. (paidContent)