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Popular Sports Blogger The Big Lead Reveals Identity (SI)
In the ever-evolving sports blogosphere, TheBigLead.com has gained traction among the sports media thanks to a near-daily dose of gossipy items about its practitioners and interviews with some of the power hitters of sports journalism, all the while remaining anonymous to its readers and subjects. Until now. The person behind The Big Lead is 31-year-old former sportswriter Jason McIntyre.

Newsprint Delivers Between the Sheets (National Journal)
William Powers: For the real thing, the stuff that outs corruption and hypocrisy, revealing the powerful for who they really are and shaking things up in the most immediate, consequential ways — in short, the scandals that are truly scandalous — nobody else can touch newspapers. Where would we be without them? HuffPo: All hail local media! Spitzer story belongs to the home team.

Murdoch Marches Into Mideast With New Networks (Variety)
Rupert Murdoch has landed in the Middle East. The mogul's News Corp. is launching two English-language, free-to-air satcasters in the region before the end of the year in partnership with Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal's regional media titan Rotana.

MSLO CEO: Mag Industry Headed Toward 'Period of Consolidation' (Folio:)
During a session at the McGraw-Hill Companies' annual Media Summit, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia president and CEO Susan Lyne spoke on a number of magazine publishing-related topics, including her prediction that the industry is heading toward a "shake-up," during which a number of magazines will fold.

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