But, as our sister blog WebNewser pointed out today, today's Wall Street Journal actually has some good news about AOL for journos:

"AOL is still hiring for some positions that [CEO Tim Armstrong] has pinpointed as essential to its growth, such as journalists."

All of those journalists losing their jobs from places like BusinessWeek and the Associated Press may have a new place to work.

AOL Grapples With Harsh New Reality --Wall Street Journal

Details of AOL's Voluntary Layoff Plan --WebNewser

Earlier: AOL Looks One Third Of Staff

ForbesLife, the bimonthly Forbes' spin-off focused on culture and lifestyle, has put Lorraine Cademartori at the helm of the publication in the role of executive editor. She has spent the previous 11 years as managing editor at the luxury magazine and worked as managing editor at Spy before that.

Who said luxury magazines were dead?

Full press release after the jump.

Previously: Forbes Layoffs Decimate Staff

Among those getting pink slips were big names like media columnist Jon Fine, community manager Shirley Brady and tech writers Steve Wildstrom and Stephen Baker.

Business journalism blog Talking Biz News has kept a running tally of outgoing BusinessWeekers since yesterday, and today has an updated list. Blogger Chris Roush says senior writer Pete Engardio, Atlanta bureau chief Dean Foust, Philadelphia bureau chief Amy Barrett, management department editor Jena McGregor, associate editor Hardy Green, senior editor James Cooper, senior photo editor Kathy Moore and Prudence Crowther, head of the copy desk, will not be making the transition to Bloomberg's BusinessWeek.

But it's a total coincidence, Atlantic art director Jason Treat told CJR:

"I actually hadn't seen the Economist cover when we designed this, so I wasn't even aware that they had arrived at the same design solution...I only wish I had seen the Economist cover first...(I) would have revised it to distance it aesthetically."

We believe Treat when he says it was an honest mistake: this is fundamentally different from the Newsweek/Runner's World photo rights issue going on right now. If anything, the only thing both The Atlantic and The Economist are guilty of here is using the worn cliché to represent the financial crisis.

Everybody's On Edge --Columbia Journalism Review

You'd never know it from the cuts across the board being made at publishers like Time Inc. and Forbes Media, but some of these companies' titles are seeing a upswing in their readership. Lucia Moses of MediaWeek reported this week that Fortune, The Economist, Smart Money, The Wall Street Journal, Inc. and Forbes have all seen an increase in readers, ironically because of all the financial terror that has caused their publishers to make cuts in the first place.

So while audiences bemoan Rupert Murdoch's pay wall plans, following The Wall Street Journal model, the paper itself has seen an 11.6 percent growth in overall readership from last year. And while Fortune may be cutting as many as 40 staffers over the next several weeks as part of Time Inc.'s reduction plan and Forbes let go 100 employees just last month, the two magazines have grown to 4.1 million (9 percent increase) and 6 million (11.5 percent) in total readers, respectively. And with the current trend seeing unemployment still on the rise among executives, you can bet one place they won't be cutting back: their subscriptions to business magazines. Maybe next year's jump in readers will be big enough that these titles can actually hire back some of their emaciated newsroom.

Read More: Report: Business Magazines See Uptick in Readership

Previously: First on FBNY: Time Inc. Shutters Custom Pub Fortune Small Business, Forbes Layoffs Decimate Staff, Time Inc. Closes Door on Buyouts Today, WSJ Looks To Claim Title Of Number One Paper In Circulation

Tim Bennett, CEO of Winfrey's production company Harpo, sent a letter to the local television stations that broadcast her show yesterday, letting them know that "The Oprah Winfrey Show" would be coming to an end in September 2011. After, Winfrey will appear on her cable channel, OWN.

Winfrey will inform her audience of her decision on her show today. The announcement was taped live at 10 a.m. and has already aired on some stations. (The New York Times' media blog has a full description of the announcement.)

Mediabistro caught up with Notional CEO Ricky Van Veen at the launch party for the company last night at the IAC building. Van Veen -- co-founder and former editor-in-chief of CollegeHumor.com -- told us Notional "is a television and web production company with the DNA of an Internet company." The company's initial block of programming includes content from the Food Network and HGTV.

Notional has a focus on "scalable" content, including game shows. Said Van Veen, "We want to do scripted, we want to do comedy, but the potential for that, in terms of scalability, is a lot less."

As of now, Notional is focusing on the Web and TV, but Van Veen hinted that the company will look to do more in mobile and other platforms. "We know how to get the web excited, to make it go to the top of Digg," he said. Notional is also collaborating with former co-chairman of NBC Entertainment Ben Silverman, who will also soon be launching the programming lineup for his own IAC funded production company. "We've got some good stuff in the works," Van Veen said of the collaboration.

Related: More On Ben Silverman's New Project

Levi Johnston is standing naked in a 13th-floor studio in midtown Manhattan holding a hockey stick.

He swivels his head and looks into the camera as -- click -- the photo is taken. This is the money shot: the one Daniel Nardicio is tweeting about right now; the one Levi's manager Tank Jones will gush about to Us Weekly; and the one Gawker and Life & Style and a cajillion other gossip outlets will mention as proof positive that, in the words of Tank Jones, "You'll see what you need to see in these photos."

Colvin was formerly the president and CEO of Maxim publisher Dennis Publishing, and helped oversee the company's $225 million sale to the Quadrangle Group before joining CNET. At The Daily Beast, Colvin is charged with "revenue generation, audience development, brand development and social media," the company said. He'll also oversee the Beast Books imprint and develop new revenue streams, like events.

Full release after the jump

The Wrap: Nielsen's sale of various publications, including The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard to James Finkelstein, whose family's company News Communications Inc. owns the "Who's Who" series, may be completed by Friday.

The Awl: A graph of magazine revenue over the last 10 years.

Gawker: David Letterman makes fun of NY1 reporters Roger Clark and Pat Kiernan.

Journal-isms: Newsday was picketed by people protesting the publication of a comic that mocked the idea of hate crimes.

Huffington Post: The Huffington Post's top game changers including top media game changer Sue Gardner of the Wikimedia Foundation.

But that's not the only thing S.I. Newhouse's team is working on: Condé Nast Digital has been busy reorganizing its sales sector into 5 different sectors, and hiring on its digital arm even as deep cuts are being made into its print divisions. Good strategy for looking ahead, or cutting off the nose to spite the face? You tell us.

Press release after the jump.

Read More: Condé Preparing E-Reader Version of Wired Preparing E-Reader Version of Wired --Wall Street Journal

Previously: Condé Nast Digital's Schutte: We're Not A Late Bloomer

But our favorite segment features Stewart slamming bubbly 30-minute meal cooking television personality and talk show host Rachael Ray for not being a real chef.

Video after the jump.

Last year, CEO Tom Curley told staff that the company needed to cut 10 percent of its payroll costs, and voluntary buyouts, a hiring freeze and layoffs this year have moved the company toward this goal. Today, the AP said in a statement that the 90 people let go across the organization this week have brought them to that point. Said the AP:

"The 90 news department staffers being notified this week, along with earlier reductions in other departments, a voluntary retirement program last summer, a continuing hiring freeze and attrition, bring The Associated Press to its goal of a 10 percent reduction in the news cooperative's global payroll costs in 2009, as outlined by President and CEO Tom Curley last November."

Hopefully this means the bloodshed is over at the AP for now.

Earlier: AP Layoff Update: Four Bureaus Closed, Says Union

"The only way I can get into Columbia is to be asked to speak," joked NBC News correspondent Tom Brokaw as he kicked off the ceremony for the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism at Columbia's Low Library last night.

Brokaw spoke about the award's namesake, his former colleague John Chancellor, as well as the night's award recipient, Ken Armstrong, an investigative journalist at The Seattle Times.

Columbia Journalism School Dean Nicholas Lemann also introduced a number of people who had worked with Armstrong over the years, including Seattle Times executive editor David Boardman and the publisher of Armstrong's college paper, Pat Kuhnle. They all spoke highly of Armstrong, about his important investigative works including a series on the death penalty in Illinois while he was working for The Chicago Tribune.

"I am truly flattered," Armstrong said, upon accepting the award. "The work I do isn't always dramatic."

Tom Brokaw