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Bam!: Martha Stewart to Buy Emeril's Media Properties For $50 Million (WSJ)
The newest guest in Martha Stewart's corporate house? Popular TV chef Emeril Lagasse. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. is expected to acquire Mr. Lagasse's extensive media and licensed properties for $45 million in cash and $5 million in stock, people familiar with the matter say.

NBC Sending iVillage TV Show to a Farm in the Country (Jossip)
Whether you call NBC's dismal Internet-to-TV spin-off by its current name, In The Loop With iVillage, or by its old moniker, iVillage Live, you won't be calling it anything for much longer: A staffer on the show says the network is finally canceling the program.

Magazine Industry Traitors! (Folio:)
Andy Cohn: The doom and gloom surrounding the magazine/print business is scaring very talented publishing professionals away from the industry altogether. They are, in droves, flocking to anything that has the word "digital" attached to it — it's truly starting to feel like 1999's dot-com migration, at least some level, all over again.

Britney Spears, Mental Illness and the Tabloids (Portfolio)
Jeff Bercovici: Is the celebrity press approaching a Joseph Welch moment? Welch was the Army attorney who put a stake through McCarthyism with his famous "Have you no sense of decency?" outburst. Now a growing chorus of voices is demanding the same of People, Us Weekly, TMZ, and all the other outlets that trade on the private lives of public figures — even figures who are medically incapable of defending themselves.

Scripts Reappear on Daily Show (NYT)
Viewers might not have realized just how scriptless JonStewart and his fellow late-night hosts really were. It appeared that Stewart worked without a teleprompter or any script for the duration of "A Daily Show," a moniker he temporarily gave the program, apparently to show solidarity with his fellow Writers Guild of America members who were on strike.

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