More Circ Gains for Celebrity Mags (NYT)
Vicci Lasdon Rose, the publisher of US Weekly, said celebrity magazines were succeeding because of the "voracious appetite" for articles about "young people of ambition and accomplishment and style."

Economist Editor Signs Off (Guardian)
Bill Emmott, who had been at the title for 26 years since joining as a junior Brussels correspondent, said that he was leaving to concentrate on writing books.

Kristof Raises $727,568 to Send Bill O'Reilly to Darfur (E&P)
In a postscript to his regular New York Times column today, Nicholas Kristof reveals that he has raised almost three-quarters of a million dollars from readers to send Fox News host Bill O'Reilly to troubled Darfur.

Ombud Takes Post Reporter to Woodshed for On-Air Hunter Costume (WaPo)
Deborah Howell: Dana Milbank has his fans but I think his appearance on MSNBC last week was a mistake in judgment. Milbank wore hunting gear on Keith Olbermann's show and made several meant-to-be-humorous remarks about Vice President Cheney's hunting accident.

VF Planning to Go Green (WWD)
Two sources within Condé Nast Publications say Vanity Fair is planning to focus its May issue on the environment, printing it on recycled paper and featuring a bevy of eco-friendly celebrities on the cover.

From Google Ga-Ga to Google Gag? (AdAge)
Simon Dumenco: What I'm fearing most, at the moment, is not Google's land-grabs or its shocking lapse of conscience, but that it will continue to screw up in really obvious, boring, hackneyed ways — the same ways that AOL and Microsoft screwed up ages ago. Reuters: Does Google lack a license to operate in China?

Mary Higgins Clark a Copycat? (Lowdown)
Lloyd Grove: Israeli writer Dalia Gal has sued Mary Higgins Clark, alleging that Clark's Second Time Around steals liberally from Gal's screenplay Immortalin. Clark denies the charges.

Grace Notes (USAT)
Though some critics argue that cable news' particular fascination with seamy cases is part of a drift toward tabloidization, CNN's Nancy Grace points out that the Scott Peterson case revealed that homicide is one of the top causes of death among pregnant women.

The Man Murrow Saved (Grade the News)
Former Air Force lieutenant Milo Radulovich says his reputation — and American freedoms — were rescued in 1953 when journalists from the Detroit News and CBS's See It Now publicized his military discharge on specious disloyalty charges.

Trying Hard to Be No. 1 in Latino TV (NYT)
Don Browne, president of Telemundo, speaks to Laura Rich about Univision's sale and the general media market's focus on a younger, minority viewing market.

Media Flaunts Gaydar in Weir Coverage (Chicago Sun-Times)
Kevin Nance: The innuendo about Johnny Weir's sexual orientation was so thick in the past few weeks that the media might as well have slapped a pink triangle on the skater's forehead. A quick database search turned up 160 uses of the word "flamboyant" to describe Weir in the past 90 days.

Petition: Admit U.S. Journalists Failed Jews in WW2 (NYT)
Several prominent journalists have signed a petition asking the Newspaper Association of America to acknowledge publicly that its predecessor organization in the 1930's "was wrong to turn its back on Jewish refugee journalists fleeing Hitler."

Gore TV's Unorthodox Fare (NY Sun)
Six months after its debut, CurrentTV is cranking out an unusual and intriguing product, but the fledgling channel is struggling to reach viewers and now faces daunting competition from some of the biggest players on the Internet.

Who You Callin' Podunk? (E&P)
After a week in which her paper drew both praise for breaking the story of Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident, Corpus Christi Caller-Times Editor Libby Averyt defended her paper's reputation and said scooping larger, nationally-known competitors should not surprise anyone.

Livin' XXL (PopMatters)
"I'm concerned with selling my magazine and doing it with integrity." Elliott Wilson, editor-in-chief of XXL Magazine, wants his props for rising to the top of the music publishing world, and oh yeah, please buy the compilation CD.

A Palestinian Journo's 'Human Touch' (Hot Zone)
Kevin Sites: "I like to do stories with the human touch," Sami Al Salem tells me at the WAFA offices in Gaza City while pulling up a selection of his works from the online archives. He tells me he thinks most reporters focus on the violence in Gaza and not about the other side of life.

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