Like any good newspaperman, Licking Valley Courier publisher Earl Kinner is used to finding news. Last Friday, the news found him. A tornado destroyed his newspaper offices and his house, which fell down around him. After he was rescued, the news-gathering itch of a lifelong newspaperman had to be scratched. He asked for a notebook and began interviewing fellow tornado survivors.

In an infographic, CJR shows some of ways that the New York Times and Gannett could have spent the multimillions they lavished on their outgoing CEOs. The estimated $21 million severance package for the Times' Janet Robinson, for instance, could have funded 230 starting reporters' salaries.

A group headed by businessman Lewis Katz and philanthropist H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest has entered into an exclusive agreement to negotiate for the purchase of The Inquirer, the Daily News, and Philly.com, according to sources close to the process. Lenfest says  he was asked by former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell to take over as the group's chairman. Rendell's status is unclear.

Krulwich writes about, and links to, the Guardian newspaper's clever and dark advertisement, a two-minute action-packed, decidedly modern take on the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf.