Martha Stewart‘s long-rumored split from her Connecticut residence is official. Her 9-room, 3-bedroom, 3,168-square-foot, 200-year-old Colonial at 48 Turkey Hill Road South in Westport is listed by William Raveis real estate at $8,995,000.

The property includes a heated pool, converted carriage house, “extensive flower and vegetable gardens” and something called a “party barn.”

Meanwhile, Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas, longtime fellow Green’s Farms residents, have finalized the sale of their 7.7 acre, $25 million properties just down the road from Stewart, the Westport News reports.

UPDATE: Stewart’s realtor, Susan Warburg, told the Westport News that Stewart “has moved on to a new chapter.”

The full Stewart listing, including lots of pics:

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New York, NY (May 30, 2006) — Steven DeLuca has been named associate publisher of Maxim magazine, it was announced today by group publisher Rob Gregory.

Maxim is the best-selling men’s lifestyle magazine in America and the world. According to the newly released MRI syndicated research, Maxim leads the entire men’s category with 13.7 million readers in the United States.

DeLuca recently spent two years as the publisher of Rolling Stone magazine, where he directed sales efforts of a 16-person staff in eight offices around the country and Europe.

DeLuca, you’ll recall, allegedly exited Wenner Media after a spat with Jann Wenner over plans for Rolling Stone‘s 1000th issue party — DeLuca wanted Rockefeller Center, Jann the Hammerstein Ballroom.

EARLIER: Rolling Stone‘s 1000th Issue Bash: Jann, Eddie, Marilyn, Moby, Strokes

Parenting is tough. But, these days, publishing a magazine for parents is proving to be even tougher.

Bundle, the year-old New York-based magazine for “pregnant women and moms with babies and toddlers, from 0 to 3″ with a rate base of 300,000, has published its last issue, FishbowlNY has learned.

Bundle‘s Spring 2006 issue currently on newsstands will be its last.

The move follows on the heels of the downshift of Meredith’s Child to a Web-heavy offering, as well as the quiet scaling back of Martha Stewart’s Kids.

Calls to Harris Publications seeking comment were left unreturned. Five staffers, including associate publisher Susann Tapper, are listed on the Bundle masthead.

EARLIER: Child Goes the Way of ElleGirl — Away From the Newsstand

Kiefer Sutherland, too.

How to Pitch: Imbibe

Michael Yon, the war photographer who alleges Hachette’s Shock magazine used a photograph on its debut cover without permission, says he and his lawyers “are in discussions with those at fault, and we have demanded that all copies of the magazine be removed from circulation and from the internet.”

Yon writes on his Web site:

Protecting this photo has become at times a full-time job. I am in Washington D.C. in my attorneys’ offices when I should be finishing two important dispatches on Afghanistan, and my book about our soldiers in Iraq and their families at home.

EARLIER: Did Shock Steal War Photo For Cover?

Dan Rather recalls covering the war in Bosnia with Paul Douglas:

On the outskirts of the city, we had made our way through a maze of trenches, then through dense woods and finally to an overlook to record some heavy fighting. On the way back in, an opening along the backside of the hill, we heard the eerie, slight “woosh” of an arching, incoming shell. We stopped, dropped and rolled trying for cover. There was none. The incoming ordnance hit the ground right in the midst of us, within a few feet of us. It hit with a thud and a sizzling, fizzling sound. Paul, with his sound gear still hanging on his neck and chest, rolled over and tried to cover me with his body as the weapon sizzled. Lucky for all of us, it never exploded. For whatever reason, it turned out to be a dud.

Dan Rather On Colleagues Paul Douglas, James Brolan & Kimberly Dozier [CBSnews.com]
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As we reported last week, there’s plenty to be shocked about in Hachette’s Shock magazine, which debuts on newsstands this week. One shocker we didn’t see coming: Michael Yon‘s cover photo of an American soldier cradling a child appears to have been used without permission. From Yon’s Web site.

I first became aware of the infringement when stunned and angry readers contacted me under the mistaken belief that I allowed SHOCK magazine to use it on their cover. I did not, and never would have agreed to their usage. I regularly turn down usage requests for this photo — uses that could earn money — because this photo is sacred to me and is representative of the U.S. soldiers I have come to know. It is also representative of the horrors of the enemy we all face.

When you steal from a MilBlogger [Black Five]
EARLIER: Shock Is Here! Shock Is Here!

Outgoing Today host Katie Couric on the media’s perception of a rough transition to evening news:

“It’s just part of being in such a highly visible position. If everyone likes you and you’re so white bread, you kind of stand for nothing.”

Couric Ready to Begin Her Next Chapter [WaPo]

Kimberly Dozier, the CBS News correspondent who sustained serious injuries in Iraq yesterday in a blast that killed a pair of CBS crew members, had been WCBS-TV’s only local Middle East bureau chief before joining CBS News, filing local reports since the war began, a WCBS-TV 2 producer tells us.

A Look At Kimberly Dozier’s Work At CBS 2 [WCBS-TV]
Video [WCBS-TV]

CBS News said in a statement posted on its Web site that a crew of three embedded with the United States army’s 4th Infantry Division patrolling in Baghdad came under attack Monday. Cameraman, Paul Douglas and soundman, James Brolan were killed by a car bomb while correspondent Kimberly Dozier was critically injured. The bomb also killed an Iraqi contractor and an American soldier. Six soldiers were injured.

NYT:

By some reckonings, the deaths firmly secured the Iraq war as the deadliest conflict for reporters in modern times.

Iraq Becomes Deadliest of Modern Wars for Journalists [NYT]
2 in CBS News Crew Killed in Violent Day in Iraq [NYT]