By CNN's Political Unit & Brian Stelter, CNN senior media correspondent

(CNN) – MSNBC host Martin Bashir said in a statement Wednesday that he would resign from the network following comments he made about former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

Bashir apologized on-air last month after suggesting that Palin deserved graphic punishment for comparing U.S. foreign debt to slavery. Palin later canceled an appearance on NBC's "Today."

Following intense backlash for the incendiary comments, Bashir elected to temporarily take additional time off during the Thanksgiving holiday.

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By Brian Stelter, CNN

Newsweek's new owners think they can succeed at something its previous owners failed at: printing a weekly magazine in the United States.

IBT Media, the obscure media company that bought Newsweek in August, said Tuesday that it intends to revive the magazine's print edition early next year, possibly as soon as January.

The announcement is a remarkable twist in Newsweek's evolution, coming less than a year after its previous owner, IAC, stopped printing the magazine. The brand was basically left for dead - but now the cover of IAC's final edition, with the phrase "#LastPrintIssue" rendered as a Twitter hashtag, seems decidedly premature.

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By Brian Stelter, CNN

Netflix embraced the binge-viewing phenomenon when it released entire seasons of several shows this year. Subscribers bragged about watching all 13 episodes of "House of Cards" or "Orange is the New Black" in a weekend - and sometimes in a single sitting.

For its first series for children, called "Turbo: FAST," Netflix is trying a different strategy.

On Tuesday, Netflix said it will release five episodes on Dec. 24, Christmas Eve, and release other batches of episodes - it calls them "pods" - around future holidays.

Does that mean other series will be similarly staggered? Like, say, season two of "House of Cards"?

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By Brian Stelter, CNN

Last year, one popular morning television show replaced an anchor in the worst possible way: By forcing her out and leaving her humiliated on her last day. Now another morning show is replacing an anchor, and the contrast couldn't be more stark.

ABC, which benefited enormously when NBC's "Today" show dismissed Ann Curry, is amicably parting ways with Sam Champion.

Champion has been the weather anchor on "Good Morning America" for the past seven years. On Monday, he announced he is becoming managing editor of the Weather Channel and host of a forthcoming morning show.

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me to do what I love most at a network that lives and breathes the weather," Champion said.

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By Brian Stelter, CNN

"New York" magazine readers woke up on Monday morning to another sign of retrenchment in the publishing industry: the weekly magazine, which for decades has been a bible for many New Yorkers, will be printed every other week beginning in March.

The publisher, New York Media, said in a press release that it was "reinventing the print magazine as a more substantial, more durable, and more visual product, while growing its digital offerings."

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By Brian Stelter, CNN

Lara Logan, the CBS correspondent at the center of a discredited October 27 report about the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, is taking a leave of absence from work, the network said Tuesday.

Logan's longtime producer, Max McClellan, is also taking time off. CBS suggested that the leaves of absence were punitive measures for the shortcomings in the Benghazi report, which has stung the reputations of both Logan and the program that televised her report, "60 Minutes."

With the staff announcements on Tuesday and the release of an internal review, CBS tried to demonstrate that it has figured out what went wrong with its Benghazi report and taken steps to stop similar mistakes in the future. "The '60 Minutes' journalistic review is concluded, and we are implementing ongoing changes based on its results," a CBS News spokeswoman said Tuesday.

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