FIRST CUTS: Scramble for WikiLeaks story rights; Nick Charles, dead at 64

Joe Pompeo
·Media Reporter

Our list of headlines that should be on your morning media menu:

• The piece Manhattan media insiders have been awaiting for weeks: Jeremy Peters' profile of New York Observer owner Jared Kushner. (New York Times)

• And here's Peters on Andrew Breitbart. (New York Times)

• And David Carr on TMZ. (New York Times)

• "Newspapers and journalists are cashing in on WikiLeaks' war on secrecy as Hollywood studios scramble to buy the "life rights" to key characters involved in 2010's publication of thousands of classified documents." (Financial Times)

• Politico is teaming up with Random House to publish four ebooks about the 2012 presidential campaign. (Media Decoder)

• Nick Charles, CNN's first sports anchor, is dead at 64 after a two-year battle with cancer. (TV Newser)