The Ticker: Hartman, Woodruff, AJI…

> According to preliminary numbers, Today is maintaining its post-Olympic lead over GMA. NBC delivered a 6.5 on both Monday and Tuesday, a 1.3 lead over ABC, a rep said…

> Thursday night on CBS, Correspondent Steve Hartman will report on all the attention Jason McElwain has received since his story was first told on last week’s Evening News…

> Judy Woodruff is keeping busy: She is teaching a seminar course called “Media and Politics: The Clash of Ideology, Technology and Ownership” at Duke this fall…

> A Knight Ridder round-up about AJI: “Al-Jazeera International, a 24-hour news channel for English speakers, is expected to debut by the end of May. But how much of Al-Jazeera’s controversial journalism will spill over to its sister station?…”

> USA Today discovers: “How we pay for cable may be about to change…”