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Times Gets New 'International Report' (NYO)
The New York Times front-of-book section is about to get a makeover. Starting in a month, when you open up the front section of the Times, you'll find an expanded table-of-contents section spilled across two pages, a section box detailing features at nytimes.com, a relocated corrections section and a new banner heading dubbed "International Report" for foreign stories.

ProPublica Names Jeff Gerth, Dafna Linzer To Staff (E&P)
ProPublica, the new non-profit investigative news project, has announced three new staff members. Jeff Gerth, a former staff correspondent for the Times, and Dafna Linzer, a staff writer for the Post, are both joining as senior reporters, Pro Publica revealed in the release. Scott Klein, vice president/Web site & technology for The Nation, has also been named director of online development. mediabistro.com: Having weeded through an unexpectedly high number of applications (850) from journalists around the country over the past few months, editor Paul Steiger is revving up ProPublica's engine and seeing where the project can go.

John Montorio, Print Apologist, 'Shocked' at LA Times Firing (NYO)
Montorio said: "The Web may be the future, but right now print is the goose that laid the golden egg. It's invaluable. No one is saying that the Web is not — maybe I sound anachronistic, but what print can provide, there are lots of things Web can't provide, just like there are some things that the Web can provide that print can't."

Howard Kurtz's Conflicting Interests — And Love Affair With the Right (Radar)
Charles Kaiser: There are two lessons from Kurtz's career. First of all, there is never any penalty for a Washington reporter who relentlessly sucks up to the right. Secondly, his extraordinary productivity is vastly more important to his editors than his blatant conflicts of interest — and his dreadful judgment. The Kurtz brand has gotten so large that he's routinely allowed to violate some of journalism's most basic principles — and his superiors don't even seem to notice anymore.

L.A. Mayor's Ex-Girlfriend Back on the Air (LA Observed)
Mirthala Salinas, the onetime rising star at Telemundo whose career burned up in the wreckage of an affair with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has taken the familiar post-TV route — AM radio. Today's edition of Hoy reports, in Spanish, that Salinas is now a co-anchor of "Hoy por Hoy" on 690 XTRA AM in Los Angeles. The show airs Monday through Friday.

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