Zinczenko 'Living the Good Life' (Forbes)
James Brady: Even today, when the magazine business is lousy, with ad sales falling, 36-year-old David Zinczenko of Men's Health comes closest to living what is enviously termed "the good life."

Journos Hope New Philly Chief Can Revive Long-Suffering Ex-KR Papers (AJR)
Savvy, dynamic and aggressive, a brawler in a city overflowing with brawlers, Brian Tierney is unabashed in advancing himself and the institutions he represents. He has clashed bruisingly with the Inquirer, but now he proposes to make representation of the paper and its journalists a full-time mission.

The Brothers Fainaru: From Baseball to Baghdad (E&P)
Joined by blood and award-winning newspaper work, Mark Faineru-Wada and Steve Fainaru remain tight even while covering the most controversial stories of the year for their respective publications: the Barry Bonds steroids case and the Iraq war. FishbowlNY: Sellers of 'Yankees Suck' t-shirts travel to Iraq, party with drug-addled soldiers, write about it.

U.S. Press Ignoring American's Looming Fiscal Crisis (CJR Daily)
Paul McLeary: The president says the national debt is under control, and while facts might prove otherwise, we can, to some extent, deal. What concerns us nearly as much is that the press corps is failing to crunch the numbers, talk to all the experts and then tell us, unequivocally, what the truth is.

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