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Ben Affleck to Report for Nightline From Congo (Reuters)
Oscar winning actor Ben Affleck has taken on a new job, if only for one assignment, traveling to the war-torn eastern Congo to do a report for Thursday's Nightline. Affleck has gone to the Congo three times this past year, and in an essay posted on ABC's Web site, he said he wanted to draw attention to the violence, starvation, and disease in the region that kills 1,200 people a day.

New-Media Focus Splits Associated Press Members (WSJ)
Long a newspaper-centric organization, the AP has shifted its focus. With readers and advertisers migrating away from news on printed paper and toward cable TV and the Web, the AP is devoting more of its resources to producing content for other news outlets. For some editors, the AP's strategy, coupled with its high prices, amounts to a betrayal at a time when the industry is under threat.

New AP Stylebook Cuts the 'Malarkey' (E&P)
The newest version of the Associated Press Stylebook is available, and if you follow it, "WMD," "iPhone," and "anti-virus" are in, while "barmaid," "blue blood," and "malarkey" are out. Those are just some of the changes to its rules for certain often-used phrases and words. There are also new acceptable forms of describing the Sept. 11 attacks, and a different rule for use for "African-American."

In New Web names, .sky Is the .limit (LAT)
In addition to the likes of .com and .net, the Internet might soon have Web addresses ending in .fun, .cars and .prettymuchanythingyouwant. Heralding the most dramatic expansion of virtual real estate in 40 years, the international group controlling Internet addresses decided Thursday to let anyone apply to be in charge of new last names for the Web.

Time Inc.'s Maghound Set to Debut in September (Folio:)
After almost four years of continuous development and testing, Maghound.com, Time Inc.'s Netflix-like service for magazines, is finally set to launch this September, Dave Ventresca, president of Maghound Enterprises, Inc., told attendees of the 2008 Circulation Management Conference.

Imus Rants and America Yawns (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: I don't really care what Don Imus said or what he intended. What I find interesting is that not many people seem to get excited about Imus anymore. Imus' tumble from his pedestal underscores, among other factors, the tremendous speed with which the media move and how quickly a star's luster can dim. When one celebrity slips, someone else will be standing by to grab the spotlight.

Ed Arno, Cartoonist of New Yorker Whimsy, Dies (NYT)
Ed Arno, whose sketchy, casually rendered cartoons on topics domestic and cosmic appeared regularly in The New Yorker for more than 30 years, died on May 27. He was 92. Mr. Arno, whose vaguely Thurberesque lines were characterized as "skittering squiggles," dealt in whimsy and deadpan surrealism.

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