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60 Minutes' Mike Wallace to Retire (WaPo)
Tom Shales: 60 Minutes without Mike Wallace? It's almost like Oprah without Oprah. But yesterday Wallace, 87, confirmed that this season on the Sunday-night CBS News program will be his last. NYT: The correspondent, who has been with the show since its inception in September 1968, said that "CBS is not pushing me." TVNewser: Correspondent emeritus. TVNewser: An era is coming to a close.

Google Will Have to Reveal Search Info to Gov't (NY Sun)
A federal judge said yesterday that he will require Google to give the government some of the data it has demanded for use in a long-running lawsuit relating to pornography on the Internet, but he did not seem inclined to force the company to turn over other potentially-sensitive information.

ABC Staffers: Sawyer May Yield Anchor Chair to Gibson (NYO)
Diane Sawyer isn't angling to leave Good Morning America for World News Tonight, according to two ABC staffers. Instead, Sawyer has been pushing for her morning co-host, Charles Gibson, to take over the unsettled evening anchor desk.

Gunmen Kill Third Iraqi Journalist in a Week (Reuters)
The editor of an Iraqi weekly was killed near his home in Baghdad yesterday. Hours before he was gunned down, Muhsin Khudhair, editor of news magazine Alef Ba, had attended a meeting of the Iraqi Journalists Union in which they urged all sides to recognize the neutrality of journalists in Iraq.

Sopranos Whacked by Housewives (Mediaweek)
Despite the hype and the 21-month wait, the sixth-season premiere of HBO's The Sopranos was no match for the women of Wisteria Lane on ABC. The mob drama's return was its weakest season-premiere since year two in 2000. WSJ: Sopranos supporting cast feuding with HBO over contracts.

Reuters Honors Slain Journos on Giant Times Square Screen (E&P)
"It's worthwhile for us to remind people about the price of the news they're getting from Iraq," Reuters Iraq bureau chief Alistair MacDonald said. "And the sign is timely, because the dangers are becoming greater."

2005's Best- and Worst-Selling Mag Covers (MIN)
For Newsweek and Time, the death of Pope John Paul II was tops in 2005; the news happening on a Saturday deadline made it "fresh" for readers. And Hunter S. Thompson's bond with Jann Wenner extended to Rolling Stone readers, who made Wenner's tribute a best-seller.

Tabloid Driven, Larry King Show Struggles (WSJ)
King often appears disengaged. He seems to do little research before sitting down with guests. In interviews, he rarely strays from prepared questions, which means he misses the chance to probe his guests on the rare occasions when they say something revealing.

Religious Broadcaster's Book Deal May Bring More Than $10M (NYT)
Joel Osteen, the pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, one of the nation's largest congregations, and the author of Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential, has signed a book deal that publishing insiders say is potentially one of the richest ever for a nonfiction book.

You Don't Know What You've Got Until It's Jann (NYP)
Sources say Kent Brownridge is gone from Wenner Media, and this time it may be for good. The company's semi-retired former general manager was working as a one-day-a-week consultant, but was reportedly feeling that the new position wasn't worth his time. WWD: Wenner considering creating new high-level management position.

Newscaster Faces Stalker in Court (NYDN)
Cable news beauty Monica Crowley faced down her alleged stalker in court yesterday, telling a jury how a lovesick fan haunted her with disturbing e-mails and followed her around New York City — armed with roses.

Jay Leno Apologizes to Viewer (AP via MSNBC)
After the Tonight Show aired a sketch that compared Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident to a 2003 videotaped shooting outside a Los Angeles courthouse, Leno received a letter of complaint from a viewer who had lost a friend in the shooting.

Nets Gear Up for Closely Watched Upfronts (WSJ)
"The money is shifting," says Bill Cella, chairman and chief executive of Magna Global Worldwide, a media-services unit of Interpublic Group. Advertisers "are still spending money on TV, but little by little, it's shifting out of traditional media into new media and programming and the digital world."

White House Press Corps at a Crossroads (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: Unhappy people have the most to gain by talking to reporters. So, it seems logical that the greater the Republican Party's stranglehold over Washington politics, the more opportunities enterprising reporters have to get leaks from disgruntled Democrats.

A Gitmo for Woodward and Hersh? (Slate)
Jack Shafer: Last week, I discussed the idea that the New York Times may have violated of Section 798 of the Espionage Act of 1917. But the thought of Bill Keller, James Risen, and Eirc Lichtblau languishing alone in jail so upset me that I began to thumb through my files for other potential journalist-felons.

—David S. Hirschman