Horowitz Leaves Observer For WaPo|HuffPo Gets Sporty|A Real Sized Model|B-to-B’s See Ad Pages Drop 30%|Long Form Journalism And The Web

FishbowlDC: The New York Observer‘s political reporter Jason Horowitz has left the paper to join The Washington Post on the D.C. paper’s style desk.

The Wrap: The Huffington Post is planning to launch a sports section later this fall.

Today Show: Readers cheered 180-pound Glamour nude model’s “real body.”

Folio: B-to-b’s ad pages fell 30 percent during the first half of 2009

BeetTV: Time.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel says long-from journalism doesn’t work on the Web, but says it’s his writers’ jobs to make their readers smarter while saving them time. (See video above)

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