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As Expected, Newspaper Circs Way Down (E&P)
The Newspaper Association of America, a Vienna, Va.-based industry group, reported that average daily paid circulation declined 1.9 percent in the most recent reporting period for the 814 newspapers reporting comparable data to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. NYT: Only three out of 10 newspapers gained in daily circulation, and only one in four papers gained on Sunday. NYDN: News uses circ numbers to boast, bash Post. NYP: Post uses circ numbers to boast, bash News. WaPo: Figures were the first released in the wake of circulation scandals at several major newspapers last year. E&P: Raw numbers from Fas-Fax.

Martha Unveils Martha (USAT)
Martha Stewart showed off her lucky shoes—gold clogs, actually—to advertisers Monday as she relaunched her syndicated daytime show. It will be renamed Martha when it premieres nationally on Sept. 12. Mediaweek: New show will combine elements of talk and how-to programming in a mixture of live and taped segments focusing on cooking, gardening, crafts, and home design.

Wintour Streep Tease (Reuters)
Meryl Streep will star in The Devil Wears Prada, the film version of a book written by a former assistant to Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Wintour has never acknowledged that the character Streep will play, a caustic magazine editor named Miranda Priestly, is based on her.

Clear Channel to Spin Off Entertainment Arm (Guardian)
America's largest radio group intends to spin off its entertainment unit into a separate business, a move which will be welcomed by critics in the music industry, who have accused the group of abusing its dominance in the market.

Times Mulls Subscriptions for Internet Archives (WSJ)
The New York Times, exploring new revenue streams for its website, is polling readers to see whether they would be willing to pay $50 a year to gain extensive access to its archives.

Idol Drama Switches Nets (WaPo)
It's unclear whether Fox's top-rated American Idol will be dragged down by the snapping teeth of ABC.

Study: Asians Underrepresented on TV (AP via CNN)
A study of Asian Americans in prime-time television, released Monday, shows that Asians, who make up 5 percent of the U.S. population, play 2.7 percent of regular characters.

Bhattacharji New Budget Living Ed (Mediaweek)
Alex Bhattacharji, previously executive editor at the magazine, replaces Sarah Gray Miller, the magazine's founding editor-in-chief, who resigned from her position in April after three years at the helm.

Time Warner Warning (WaPo)
Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media company, said computer tapes containing personal information on 600,000 current and former employees were lost.

The End of Star Trek (LAT)
Orson Scott Card: So they've gone and killed Star Trek. And it's about time. As science fiction, the series was trapped in the 1930s—a throwback to spaceship adventure stories with little regard for science or deeper ideas. It was sci-fi as seen by Hollywood: all spectacle, no substance.

News Photos Honored (NYT)
The 50th-anniversary exhibition of the World Press Photo contest, photojournalism's premier event, opens on Wednesday at the United Nations.

He'll Map Manhattan (NYT)
Randy Cohen: I propose to create, with the help of the Book Review's readers, a literary map of Manhattan—not of its authors' haunts but those of their characters, a map of the literary stars' homes.

Rat-a-Tat Finke (PR Week)
LA Weekly columnist Nikki Finke says "I am every PR person's nightmare. And I say that with a great degree of pride. I promise you that my phone never rings, and my email box is totally empty of PR pitches."

Knight Journalism Fellowships Announced (Stanford/Knight)
Twelve U.S. journalists have been awarded John S. Knight Fellowships at Stanford University for the 2005-06 academic year, and will pursue independent courses of study and participate in special seminars.

Wiesner Magazines Sold (Denver Post)
Seven of Wiesner Publishing Group's interior design magazines were acquired by Network Communications Inc. in a deal industry insiders valued at more than $20 million.

Libel Trial Setbacks for Trib (Chicago Tribune)
On the first day of a libel trial involving the Chicago Tribune and a former DuPage County prosecutor, the judge delivered setbacks to both sides on the type of evidence they can present to the jury.

Canadian Publishers Try to Cork Wine Mag (Globe and Mail)
Canadian magazine publishers are calling for the Liquor Control Board of Ontario to get out of the publishing industry.

Nepal Media Rallies for Press Freedom (BBC)
About 1000 journalists marched in Kathmandu to demand the restoration of press freedoms. Severe restrictions, including censorship, have been imposed on the media since King Gyanendra seized direct control of the country in February.

Chinese Journo Can't Collect Award (CPJ)
Chinese authorities refused to allow Cheng Yizhong to receive a United Nations press freedom award on Tuesday.

—David S. Hirschman