FINAL CUTS: Brown names Zakaria’s replacement at Newsweek; New faces at CNBC, MSNBC

Joe Pompeo
·Media Reporter

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

• Tina Brown has named a replacement for departed Newsweek international editor Fareed Zakaria: Tunku Varadarajan, a writer-at-large at Brown's Daily Beast and an alum of Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and the Times of London. (Wall Street Journal/Speakeasy)

• "At a time when Attorney General Eric Holder is pursuing an active criminal investigation into WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange for publishing State Department cables ... the U.S. is inviting governments and reporters from around the globe to celebrate press freedoms," scoffs John Cook. (Gawker)

• DealBook editor Andrew Ross Sorkin "answers his critics." (FishbowlNY)

• Who wins the WSJ-NYT style mag smack down? (New York Observer)

• The New York Times launched an app for the Chrome web store. (New York Times Co.)

• And Henry Blodget thinks the company's future "may now actually be bright. (Business Insider/The Wire)

• The Onion will start franchising out its print edition to local partners. (CJR)

• CNBC has two new editorial staffers. (CNBC)

• MSNBC, meanwhile, has a new D.C. contributor. (FishbowlDC)