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Journal Foreign Editions to Go Tab (Guardian)
The Wall Street Journal, published by Dow Jones & Co., will change its foreign editions on Oct. 17 to a tabloid format from broadsheets to cut costs at the newspaper. NYT: Conversion expected to save $17 million annually. BusinessWeek: Dow to cut overseas jobs as part of switch.

The Revolution Will Be Digitized (NYT)
At a time when media conferences like "Les Blogs" in Paris two weeks ago debate the potential of the form, and when BusinessWeek declares, as it did on its May 2 cover, that "Blogs Will Change Your Business," Nick Denton is withering in his contempt. NYT: Questions of ethics hit the blogosphere as bloggers like Mediabistro's Garrett Graff, of FishbowlDC, are not only getting access, but have also been getting results. WaPo: Arianna Huffington wants to change the perception of of blogging as the one-man band, the big mouth in the basement, the pajama-clad pontificator taking on the media establishment, writes Howard Kurtz. Newsweek: "If you're looking for the usual flame-throwing, name-calling, and simplistic attack dog rhetoric ... don't bother coming to The Huffington Post," says founder Arianna Huffington. Newsday: Huffington Report "could be quite exciting—or a log-rolling, self-referential mess," writes Ellis Hennican.

New GMA Host Added (NYT)
Robin Roberts, the news reader on Good Morning America on ABC since 2002, is being made a co-host of the program, which gives her a rank (and duties) equal to that of Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer, who have been the hosts since early 1999.

Band's F-Word Upstages Abdul SNL Cameo (NYDN)
The show repeatedly muted rock band System of a Down's use of the F-word, but it missed guitarist Daron Malakian's screeched, "F--- yeah!" toward the end of the number. Earlier, American Idol judge Paula Abdul got the last laugh, appearing in a skit spoofing her ongoing sex scandal.

'Paper of Record' Tries to 'Build Credibility' (NYT)
To build readers' confidence, an internal committee at The New York Times has recommended taking several steps, including having senior editors write about the workings of the paper.

TV Newsmags' Entertainment Focus (USAT)
Peter Johnson: After ABC's Primetime Live focused exclusively last week on the American Idol scandal, some veteran network news producers noted that just a few years ago such a piece would have filled one segment on a network newsmagazine, not an entire hour.

Mr. Murdoch, Tear Down That Wall (AFX News via Forbes)
News Corp may tap the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for as much as $130 million to finance an expansion in Russia via acquisitions. Guardian: Murdoch aggressively targeting Russian billboards.

Cable Stealing Male Eyeballs From Nets (NYT)
In late-night television, young men are slowly turning the channel from the broadcast networks to cable.

Kinsley's Report on Papers (WaPo)
Michael Kinsley: At the current rate of decline, the last newspaper subscriber will hang up on a renewal phone call that interrupts dinner on Oct. 17, 2016. This alarming possibility threatens all of us, because reading newspapers is, in the end, what makes us Americans.

Lit 'It Couple' Gets Hazed (New York Mag)
Boris Kachka: The literary couple is a familiar phenomenon, and one notoriously unfair to the female member. Nicole Krauss opens up about her curious life and her powerful second novel. Just don't ask about her husband.

Fake Reporter By Day, Escort By Night (Vanity Fair)
It sounded like conspiracy: a former male escort who was going by a fake name and had somehow obtained White House press passes on a regular basis was covering briefings for an obscure right-wing news outfit. Suddenly, the blogosphere latched onto "Gannongate."

Report: Gannett Pays Execs Top Dollar (E&P)
Executives at Gannett reaped the most compensation among newspaper execs in 2004, according to a report released by Banc of America Securities Friday.

Losers All Around in Plame Case (WaPo)
William Raspberry: The more I look at it, the more what the government is doing to Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine looks like a fight with nothing much in it for anyone, including the American public. I do hope they can stay out of jail.

TV, Film Boom in Iraq (LAT)
After decades of government censorship and a two-year U.S. occupation, actors, filmmakers and television producers are embracing new artistic freedoms to tell stories about Iraqis—before and after Saddam Hussein's overthrow—for an increasingly housebound audience.

Nepal King Pierces Journos (CPJ)
In the aftermath of the country's media crackdown, news sites such as the Nepali Post, a Washington D.C.-based Nepali-language online magazine, have been targeted.

Paparazzi Jackpots Diminishing (NYT)
Recent photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on a beach in Kenya sold for $500,000. Still, the price for celebrity photos seems to be on the decline.

Rather Pricey (Page Six)
Former CBS anchor Dan Rather is charging $75,000 and a pair of first-class airline tickets to give speeches about the state of modern journalism.

ABC Ad Sparks Content Debate (NYT)
The network's acceptance of an advertisement from a conservative, faith-based organization has touched off a debate about who can and who cannot buy commercial time to present their viewpoints. Guardian: Research to be published by the BBC governance unit will give further ammunition to those who accuse the channel of sidelining religion.

TV's Makeover Madness (WaPo)
Paul Farhi: "Makeover" programs, currently the hottest genre of reality TV, all start with the same premise: You (or someone very much like you) just aren't good enough.

Senior Southpaw (Time)
Romesh Ratnesar: In his entertaining memoir, Victor Navasky recounts the brawls and balance sheet of running The Nation.

Media Shy to Criticize Darlings? (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: Investment guru Warren Buffett and baseball manager Joe Torre have three things in common. Both men are: a) genuine Media Icons b) suffering through a season in hell and, most interesting of all, c) unaccountably being let off the hook by the usual bloodthirsty media. National Journal: "Schadenfreude junkies" in the press are going easy on Buffet, writes William Powers.

Publicist-Less 'Housewife' Spanks Mort (New York Mag)
Teri Hatcher, who has to go after the press herself, gave NYDN publisher Mort Zuckerman “quite a bit of shit," asking how his paper paper could print an article "completely full of erroneous crap."

Amy Goodman's 'Empire' (The Nation)
Lizzy Ratner: The popular radio host is still broadcasting from a firehouse studio, still sending her war-and-peace reports into the media ether, except these days when the engineer flips the switch on her microphone, she can expect hundreds of thousands of listeners to tune in.

SNL Scribe Herb Sargent Dead (Hollywood Reporter via Reuters)
The veteran television writer, a six-time Emmy Award-winner whose career ranged from The Victor Borge Show to Saturday Night Live, died Friday at 81.

Speak, Currency (LAT)
Ten years after Southern hip-hop burst onto the commercial music scene, a new generation of performance poets believes they are next in line to succeed.

Pop Smarts (New Yorker)
Malcolm Gladwell: In the wonderfully entertaining Everything Bad Is Good for You, Steve Johnson proposes that what is making us smarter is precisely what we thought was making us dumber: popular culture.

'Skins Do Their Own News (Washingtonian)
Harry Jaffe: Redskins spokesman Karl Swanson says the team is ramping up its website and putting up news because fans couldn't see through the "filter" of DC's news outlets.

—David S. Hirschman