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U.S. Atty General: Journalists Can Be Prosecuted (AP)
The nation's top law enforcer, Alberto Gonzales, said the government will not hesitate to track telephone calls made by reporters as part of a criminal leak investigation, but officials would not do so routinely and randomly. NYT: Gonzales: "To the extent that we engage in electronic surveillance or surveillance of content, as the president says, we don't engage in domestic-to-domestic surveillance without a court order."

BookExpo Confronts Changes in Publishing (AP)
The thousands of publishers, booksellers and authors who bartered, bantered and partied at BookExpo America would surely agree their industry is in transition, confronted by the shrinkage of reading time and the expansion of technology. But ask what should be done and the arguments begin. WaPo: The clash is between what you might call the technorati and the literati. The technorati are thrilled at the way computers and the Internet are revolutionizing the world of books. The literati fear that, amid the revolutionary fervor, crucial institutions and core values will be guillotined. GalleyCat: Dateline BEA: Canadian markets, at the Reading the World party and random snapshots.

Toni Morrisson's Beloved Voted Best Novel of Last 25 Years (NYT)
A panel of authors and critics evaluated the literature of the last 25 years for the New York Times and came up mostly with the expected selections. The results of the Book Review's survey provide a rich, if partial and unscientific, picture of the state of American literature. Slate: Why is Beloved so beloved? Slate: The best novels that didn't make the list.

Washingtonpost.com Takes Top Honors in 2006 EPpy Awards (WaPo)
"This is a validation of what we were trying to do for the past few years, trying to bring down the walls between the journalists and the readers," said Jim Brady, editor of washingtonpost.com. "We're trying to take the world-class journalism of The Washington Post and merge it with these new media." E&P: Full list of EPpy winners. FBNY: Vegas 2006: Creative disruption.

New White House Press Secretary, Formerly of Fox, Watches CNN (NYT)
"There is no official channel at the White House," Tony Snow said in a telephone interview last week. "I'm looking at my four TVs here — we've got Fox, we have CNN, MSNBC, CNBC ... You can't be at the White House and not pay attention to all the major media outlets."

TiVo Partnering With Mags to Create 'Virtual Channels' (NYP)
TiVo is partnering with several major magazines to offer viewers virtual TV channels with content hand-picked by magazine editors. The move is another step for TiVo in its effort to offer new features in the face of competition from other digital video recorders.

AOL, Startups Challenge MySpace (AP)
It's only natural for companies large and small to want to capture some of the social-networking magic of MySpace.com, the Internet's second busiest. NYT: MySpace has struck a deal for exclusive access to the next issue of the magazine Nylon.

Fox's Upfront Event Becomes an Ordeal (WSJ)
That the network could stumble with its upfront pitch and suffer little or no harm in its ad-sales haul underscores how outdated the upfront process really is, some industry experts say. Fox's presentation followed similar events by each of the major networks last week. Mediaweek: Buyers dissect networks' fall slates. Mediaweek: Buyers may hold back upfront dollars to save money for '07 digital platforms.

Flap Over USAT NSA Scoop Has Top Journos Buzzing (E&P)
"This is shaping up to be a major test of the value of the press, the watchdog function of the press," said Bill Kovach, chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. "If the press turns out to be right, they will have done a real service. If it turns out to be wrong, it will be a real blow to all of us."

Cooper Hoping for Oprah Pop (NYP)
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who Harper Collins hopes will be a heavyweight, just finished taping a segment for the Oprah Winfrey Show on his new book, Dispatches From the Edge. "It's a rocket to the top," said one editor of the Oprah spot. Guardian: Oprah's book deal tops Bill Clinton's.

Newspapers 'Staring Down a Daily Worry' (NYT)
David Carr: Newspapers are still profitable, so why must a paper like the Philadelphia Inquirer, a decent daily with a respectable history in a resurgent city, go begging? WSJ: Philly group leads bidding for two local dailies.

Who Is MediaNews' Dean Singleton? (NYT)
Singleton, a bantam figure with flinty blue eyes, is indeed thought of as something of a magician in the newspaper world — having transformed himself from the son of a ranch hand in a tiny town in Texas to a media baron who now controls a newspaper empire that sprawls from coast to coast.

TV Wedding Goes On Despite Tragedy (NYDN)
As the cameras rolled for his hit reality TV show, Duane (Dog) Chapman was married this weekend in Hawaii, just a day after his daughter was killed in a car crash. Barbara Katy Chapman died Friday night near her home in Fairbanks, Alaska, after the stolen car she was riding in careened off a highway.

The Secret of Rolling Stone (Guardian)
When Kurt Cobain was photographed for the cover of the magazine in 1992 he turned up in a t-shirt with the slogan "corporate magazines still suck." But nobody, not even Cobain, turned down a Rolling Stone cover.

Student TV Appears on the Web (WSJ)
Open Student TV Network is part of a burst of TV channels targeting college students, mostly over the Internet. The student shows can be very high quality, which isn't surprising considering that many Hollywood shows are created by fresh-out-of-college twentysomethings.