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- Oct 30 (Reuters) - The following were the top stories in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

AOL Makes Itself Open Source The most old school of Web media brands is set to embrace an open source, Web 2.0 approach in a major way Oct 30, 2008 -By Mike Shields The most old school of Web media brands is set to embrace an open source, Web 2.0...

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Tony Yazbeck, Christian Borle and Justin Bohon will portray the three eager visitors to New York circa 1944 in On the Town.

Comcast Corporation, the nation's largest cable service provider, announced Wednesday that earnings were up. The company says it lost some basic cable subscribers, but that the decline was more than made-up for by new digital subscribers. One non-profit group is urging Congress to investigate whether Comcast and other cable companies are trying to profit from the upcoming transition from analog broadcast TV to digital.

Social networks are front and center in the latest redesign of AOL's AOL.com homepage, which the company announced Thursday and says it will start to gradually roll out to users over the next few weeks (unless they choose to opt in earlier).A widget ...

-By Mike Shields, Mediaweek NEW YORK The most old-school Web media brand is set to embrace an open source, Web 2.0 approach in a major way. AOL -- previously famous for its 'walled garden' philosophy aimed at keeping visitors within the port...

Media mogul Sumner Redstone said Thursday he has "no intention of selling a single [additional] share of Viacom Inc. (VIA) and CBS Corp." (CBS). Redstone, who controls both media companies through his private firm, National Amusements Inc. (NAI), w...

The National Arab Company-KIA Motors Jordan has announced that it will sponsor the Jordan Environmental Media Award, in cooperation with the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature. The award, which was launched under the patronage of HRH Princess Reem Ali on October 15, 2008, seeks to recognize excellence in environmental reporting. Jordanian print and online journalists, as well as journalism students from Jordanian universities, are eligible to compete for the award.

By David Westphal: [Editor's note: This is day four of OJR's a week-long look at the state of independent local online news start-ups. Each day's report will include a feature article, as well as a Q & A with one or more of the day's sources. If you missed the first three installments, here they are: Part 1: Sites on the rise; business models remain elusive Part 2: Experience makes MinnPost a top online new startup Part 3: No paper? No problem! News companies use the Web to enter new markets] If the future of news is ultra-local, then ChiTown Daily News is gambling in the right direction. The operators of the three-year-old news operation are counting on interest in Chicago's 77 neighborhoods to bring readers to their nonprofit site, staffed almost entirely with citizen journalists. The results so far are inconclusive. Traffic is building, but only recently passed the 25,000 mark on monthly unique visitors. (The Chicago Tribune's monthly audience is about 150 times larger.) A