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ABC's Jennings to Continue Despite Cancer (NYT)
Peter Jennings, the sole anchor of the ABC's evening newscast for the past 22 years, will work as often as he can during his course of treatment. LAT: While Jennings quit smoking 20 years ago, he said yesterday that he was "weak" and took it up again during the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. NYDN: News of Jennings' cancer diagnosis shocked friends, colleagues, and rivals. WaPo: Jennings's illness underscores the generational shift under way at the broadcast networks. USAT: Jennings is perhaps best known for his foreign reporting.

Author Saul Bellow Dies (LAT)
The Nobel Prize-winning giant of American letters whose erudite writing portrayed men in the throes of profound spiritual crisis in a dangerous, even brutal world, died Tuesday at 89. WaPo: Bellow embraced the stories of the streets, writes Jonathan Yardley. NYT: Bellow was the poet of urban America's dangling men, writes Michiko Kakutani. NYO: Bellow was "very engaging, very lively, at times rather tart and intolerant," according to biographer James Atlas.

All Eyes on Pope (London Evening Standard)
A worldwide television audience of two billion people—believed to be the biggest ever—is expected to watch the Pope's funeral on Friday. Guardian: Reporter recounts scoop about the attempted assassination of the Pope in 1981. LAT: Some networks claimed camera angles for papal funeral years ago. Knight Ridder Service via Kansas City Star: Analysts say media could influence views on pope's legacy, selection. Freep: Suddenly, TV news shows can't get enough of the pope. Marketwatch: News outlets bungled pope's passing, writes Jon Friedman.

Times Appoints New Public Editor (NYT)
The newspaper named Byron Calame, who retired as a top editor at The Wall Street Journal, to succeed Daniel Okrent in the position. WaPo: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting appoints ombuds for public radio, TV.

FCC Chief: Cable, Police Thyself (LAT)
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said cable-television companies should regulate themselves to curb indecency as Congress considers extending some FCC broadcast rules to cable.

Veteran Mag Editor Crow Dies (Mediaweek)
Elizabeth Crow, a veteran magazine editor who held several prestigious executive positions in publishing, including CEO of G+J USA Publishing, has died after brief battle with esophageal cancer.

New Blogs to Offer Drudge Retorts (NYO)
Arianna Huffington's "Huffington Report" and Gawker Media's "Sploid" will be aiming at the center of the media scrum: the news cycle itself, now being deftly nudged, goosed, and spun by Mr. Drudge, daily, hourly, instantly.

Dept. of Train-Wrecks Waiting to Happen (WaPo)
Pop singer Britney Spears and hubby Kevin Federline have decided to produce a six-episode reality series for the UPN network in which they'll "share their personal love story through private home videos and revealing interviews."

Domino Ready to Drop (NYO)
The magazine is the newest version of Conde Nast's thriving magalog concept—treating house decorating the way Lucky treats fashion, as an opportunity for shopping.

ABC News to Relaunch Digital Platform (AP via Chicago Tribune)
ABC News has announced it will relaunch its 24-hour digital news operation on television in July and continue to make "ABC News Now" available through the Internet and wireless devices.

Second Blogger Allowed in White House Briefing Room (WaPo)
Dan Froomkin: Eric Brewer, a scientist by trade and one of a handful of contributors to a small, liberal blog called BTC News, followed in the footsteps of FishbowlDC's Garrett Graff.

Enquirer Bloodbath (NYP)
The National Enquirer put out its first issue from its new base in New York City, but last week many of the tabloid's veteran journalists were laid off.

Miramax to Publish Giuliani Book (NYDN)
A memoir by Rudy Giuliani covering his years as a New York prosecutor will be among the titles published by Miramax Books before Disney takes over the imprint in 2007.

'Who's Running The New Yorker?' (NYO)
Tom Scocca: The people who make the magazine have spent generations veiled by the fictitious persona of mascot Eustace Tilley and the quasi-fictitious non-personae of the legendary editors, Mr. Ross and Mr. Shawn. They emerge from the shadows only for obituaries. But working from a variety of sources, it was possible to pull together a piecemeal approximation of some portion of the masthead.

More on Post/News Spat (VV)
Jarrett Murphy: The Post is better equipped to fight and lose a circulation war than the News, and charges of fudging circulation numbers are no laughing matter in the wake of the scandal at Newsday and Hoy.

Bush 'Popular' in Press Despite Low Approval Rating (E&P)
It's not uncommon to hear or read pundits referring to President George W. Bush as a "popular" leader or even a "very popular" one. Even some of his critics in the press refer to him this way. Perhaps they need to check the latest polls.

ABC Orders Up More Drama (Reuters)
The network has given early renewal notices to four drama series for the 2005-06 season—Alias, Boston Legal, Desperate Housewives, and Lost.

When Authors Cross Fine Line (Washington Times)
Chris Baker: When a television anchor or a prominent newspaper reporter publishes a book and hits the talk show circuit to plug it, isn't that a kind of commercial endorsement?

LAT's Slater Apologizes (L.A. Observed)
Eric Slater, the L.A. Times' roving state reporter whose piece on Cal State Chico is under fire, has apologized in an email sent to "friends and colleagues."

Soldier Blogs Give Views From Iraq, Afghanistan (Investor's Business Daily)
Doug Tsuruoka: Blogs can cast the U.S. military in a bad light or, worse, possibly threaten security. But at the same time, soldier blogs give an unprecedented view of front-line life and could become a source of breaking news. BBC: Global voices speak through blogs.

Tough Times for Hard News (CSM)
John Hughes: Network TV journalists are awash in "news" programs focusing on celebrities and the entertainment industry, and "soft" magazine-type stories that are a far cry from the hard-news coverage that made the network news divisions what they once were.

—David S. Hirschman