In a personal pitch to his readers, Robert  Dickson writes, "After almost five years and 281 consecutive weekly issues, the time has come for me to pass the baton. So consider this your own personal Request for Proposal to own and operate The Carrboro Citizen.” He says, “I guess I’m just tired,” but even so, he’s not handing his baby over to just anyone. “I have no interest in seeing this newspaper acquired by someone who would change its focus from nuanced, community-focused journalism. Those folks can go start their own publication.”

Oregonian management is denying it, but Portland's alternative newspaper, Williamette Week, runs a provocative story suggesting that the 162-year-old newspaper may be the latest Advance Publications Inc., paper to get the ax as a daily print publication. Advance, controlled by Newhouse heirs, has already announced the end of daily publishing at eight newspapers, including the storied Times-Picayune in New Orleans. That announcement "shattered any illusions" in the Oregonian newsroom that they were immune, WW reports.

NY Times photographer Robert Stolarik says the police claim that he was violently resisting arrest as, "the most absurd thing I've ever heard in my life."  Times’ lawyer George Freeman says, “He was grabbed, he was hit, he was surrounded, he ended up on the ground, he was kicked and, frankly, injured, so any notion that he could be the instigator is artificial, is made up.”

New York magazine interviews the Times' freelance photographer who was arrested Saturday night while working with two reporters in the Bronx. One second, Robert Stolarik says, he was photographing a street fight; the next he was on the ground beneath six officers, suffering cuts and bruises to his arms, legs and head. Police, who claim Stolarik "inadvertently" hit an officer with his camera, haven't returned his equipment. Lawyers for the Times, the National Press Photographers Association and the Committee to Protect Journalists have taken up his case.