The Ticker: Ambinder, Simpson, Leventhal…

> FishBowlDC: “ABC News’ Marc Ambinder, one of the driving forces behind The Note, announced to friends this morning that he’ll be leaving DeSales Street this month to move down to the Watergate and join Chuck Todd at the National Journal’s The Hotline.”

> Yahoo is offering CNN video, but “the company still has some tweaking to do,” the LAT notes. “For a short time Tuesday, a CNN.com story about an Air France plane crash in Toronto was accompanied by Yahoo ads offering flights on Air France.” (Via WHAC)

> ABC News senior correspondent Carole Simpson and longtime CNN journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault will both be inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists’ (NABJ) Hall of Fame at the organization’s 30th anniversary convention this week…

> Refet Kaplan: “What airport are you close to?” Rick Leventhal: “I just got home. LaGuardia?” Kaplan: “Need you to get to Toronto. Plane crash.” More…

> “At the very end of NBC Nightly News Tuesday there was a plug for “Citizen Journalists” for MSNBC where they asked viewers to use their cell phones and take videos/photos of current events and then to email them to pix@msnbc.com,” an e-mailer notes…