SEC Adopts 'Last Resort' Policy of Issuing Subpoenas to Journalists (NYT)
The Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously adopted a policy on Wednesday to issue subpoenas to journalists only in rare circumstances and only after exhausting other avenues of investigation.

Howard Stern Listeners Find Terrestrial Alternatives (Reuters via Yahoo!)
While the shock jock appears to have attracted more than 1 million subscribers to Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., many analysts and consultants believe the exodus is starting to slow with many of the remaining 8 million Stern fans staying tuned to terrestrial radio, listening to his former competitors.

Former Seattle Radio Talk Show Host Faces Criminal Charges (Seattle Weekly)
One night in December, Michael Kenneth Webb was abruptly gone from the airwaves. Webb says he's not sure himself why he was fired. You could call that disingenuous considering he's up on a criminal felony charge and faces a trial next month, but this story's not that simple.

McClellan Calls for Media to Apologize for Mobile Weapons Story (Think Progress)
On May 29, 2003, President Bush said "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories." The Washington Post yesterday revealed that a Pentagon field report transmitted to Washington on May 27 "had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons."

Jared Paul Stern's NY Press Days (NY Press)
Ernie Koy: I first met Jared Paul Stern when I was writing for New York Press in the late 1990s. One of the paper's editors was enamored with this three-named wonder who came from seemingly nowhere. The young man shook my hand with a cold, clammy, and loose grip, one that made his passivity clear.

Write Your Own Damn News! (Seven Days)
Cathy Resmer: Frustrated with the local media? Looking for more coverage of your son's middle-school soccer team? Got a bake sale or a rally to promote? Why not write a few short articles yourself and publish them on your local citizen journalism website?

Kate White Elevates (Forbes)
James Brady: Is Cosmo editor Kate White the smartest dame in the business? I used to think in terms of Tina Brown, Oprah, Martha Stewart, Mary Berner, Martha Nelson, Cathie Black and Bonnie Fuller, headliners like that. Kate White? Wasn't she just the nice girl next door who happened to be around when they had an opening?

WaPo Editorial Gets Slammed (Wash. City Paper)
The folks at the Washington Post's editorial board don't generally set out to make news with their opinions, but that's what happened last Sunday. An unsigned editorial praised President Bush for authorizing a highly selective leak of intelligence on Iraq to a "favorite New York Times reporter."

Creeping Democracy of Web Influences the Influencers of Print (E&P)
In the past, in the days of ink-stained wretches and typesetting, it was the editors and publishers who set the news agenda. A small coterie of journalists decided what was most important. But their decisions are influenced more and more by the creeping democracy of blogs and news aggregators; when these sites jump on an issue, it gets noticed.

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