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Murdoch Says He Will Drop WSJ Pay Wall (AP)
News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday he intends to make access to The Wall Street Journal's Web site free, trading subscription fees for anticipated ad revenue. "We expect to make that free, and instead of having one million [subscribers], having at least 10 million-15 million in every corner of the earth," Murdoch said.

Dan Rather Marks 1st Anniversary With HDNet (NYDN)
Rather and his HDNet team have traveled the globe to produce a weekly one-hour newsmagazine, Dan Rather Reports, which airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Tuesday night's show, marking his anniversary, has Rather 450 miles north of the Arctic Circle looking at the Northwest Passage and the impact of global warming. "It's been amazing," Rather said yesterday. TVNewser: Working at HDNet is "about as close to journalistic heaven as I expect to get."

Barry Diller to Time Warner: Name Your Price for AOL (AdAge)
"We've talked over the years about our interest in AOL and have never been able to get Time Warner to engage with us," said Diller in an interview. "I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody. When and if Warner doesn't want it, I'll certainly be at the door."

Web Site Takes Over Soccer Club (Goal.com)
Ebbsfleet United have agreed a deal to be taken over by fans' community Web site, MyFootballClub, in a unique deal. Over 50,000 people signed up to the online scheme, but so far only the 20,000 members who paid the £35 (€50) will have a say in the club's affair. They will help pick the team and decide who to buy on the transfer market.

Glam: The Success of the Network (BuzzMachine)
Jeff Jarvis: Glam is a content network. But they don't create all the content. They curate it. So we should curate more as we create less. That's another way to say what I've said other ways: Do what we do best and link to the rest. Also: We need to gather more and produce less, so we also need to encourage others to produce more so we can gather it. That's a festival of PowerPoint lines there.

SF Chron BALCO Scandal Reporter to ESPN (Marketwatch)
ESPN is set to hire one of the San Francisco Chronicle reporters who broke the Balco steroids scandal, marking the sports network's latest move to deepen its roster of journalists who honed their skills in the print world. Mark Fainaru-Wada's move to the cable channel comes on the heels of its recent hire of Rick Reilly, a long-time columnist for Sports Illustrated, to do commentaries.

Social Networking Site Bebo Gives Free Access to TV and Music (Guardian)
Jemima Kiss: Youth social networking site Bebo will offer free content from major broadcasters — including the BBC — and record labels when it launches a series of media channels today. The Open Media platform will also feature programs from the BBC, ITN, Channel 4, BSkyB, and Endemol in the UK, and CBS, Turner, MTV, and ESPN in the US.

Will House & Garden Be Remembered as the Condé Nast Punching Bag? (MIN)
In retrospect, however, House & Garden's second fate was sealed with president Steve Florio's January 2003 dismissal of publisher Brenda Saget Darling. The Elle Décor alumna was highly respected in the design marketplace and put the monthly over 1,000 ad pages in 2000-2002. Not good enough for Florio, who replaced her with Lori Burgess,

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