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Rove Won't Be Charged in CIA Leak Case (NYT)
The prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case advised Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, that he would not be charged with any wrongdoing, effectively ending the nearly three-year criminal investigation that had at times focused intensely on Mr. Rove. WaPo: In a brief phone interview, Rove's lawyer said he was "delighted, obviously. ... We've always said [Rove] did everything he could to cooperate" with the investigation.

Hope Has Faded for Washington Publisher Merrill (WaPo)
Philip Merrill, the tenacious regional publisher and diplomat who never strayed from his beloved Chesapeake Bay for long, was presumed dead yesterday, two days after his unmanned sailboat was found about 20 miles from his Annapolis home.

Webby Awards: 5 Hours of 5-Word Speeches (FBNY)
They may have limited acceptance speeches to five words, but the 10th Annual Webby Awards, held last night at Cipriani Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, still took over five hours to complete. FBNY Video: Why NYT's Thomas Friedman hates TimesSelect. E&P: The room was full of the kind of anonymous Internet celebrities who make millions behind the scenes while never cracking through the public consciousness.

MSNBC Names Abrams New General Manager (AP via Yahoo!)
NBC News legal correspondent Dan Abrams was put in charge of MSNBC Monday — and his first move was to take himself off the air there. It was not immediately clear whether the legal-oriented Abrams Report will continue with a different host or whether it will be replaced by another show. TVNewser: "This is an unconventional play. We know that, and that's the beauty of it," a senior NBC News executive says. WaPo: MSNBC promoting from the bottom up. USAT: The move was a surprise: Abrams has little management experience, and TV news anchors rarely join executive ranks.

Clear Channel Eyes One-Second Radio Spots (AdAge)
The real value of the Blinks, as they are being called, may be in the publicity they can generate. After all, you're already reading an article about them, and the short spots are only in the concept stage. The radio giant, however, says it didn't think up Blinks as a promotional stunt.

Fuller Back to Six-Figures? (WWD)
Bonnie Fuller's contract with American Media Inc., where she has been editorial director since 2003, expires at the end of the month, and a new one has yet to materialize. While negotiations are moving ahead, her boss, AMI chairman David Pecker, has reportedly balked at an extension of her current deal.

Lipman on Her New Portfolio (MIN)
One subject presumably out of bounds at Condé Nast Portfolio is Condé Nast, which editor Joanne Lipman profiled in 1996 in the Wall Street Journal. "It was on the financials of a privately held company, not on the editorial, which I've always respected," she says.

News Orgs Around the World Hiring Younger, Cheaper Journos (Press Gazette U.K.)
A report by the International Federation of Journalists shows that freelancers and temporary workers make up around 30 percent of the membership of IFJ affiliates and this rising trend was setting new challenges in the battle to maintain high-quality journalism.

Dumenco On Hypocrite Patrol (AdAge)
Simon Dumenco: Would it kill you, Time Inc., to stop pretending that making donations to charity to secure exclusive celebrity pictures isn't the moral equivalent of paying sources? Would it kill you, Condé Nast, to cut the self-congratulatory blather surrounding your distant-future biz mag?

Ex-Dating Columnist Dishes On Sex And NYC (amNY)
Julia Allison: The world of dating columnists is a small one, made smaller still by a continual exodus from the field, due to marriage (Amy Sohn), fame (Candace Bushnell) or the inevitable burnout (too many to name). Bridget Harrison left for the final reason, but she persevered longer than most.

Enquiring Minds Want to IPO? (CNN/Money)
Given that more people appear to be interested in whom Paris Hilton is dating than labor unrest in Paris, France, now would seem to be a great time for American Media to try and test the public waters, right?

Bright Young Things Trawling for Magazines (NY Sun)
Joe Salvatore stood outside of Housing Works Book Cafe, trying to figure out how to carry five heavy bags stuffed with 80 literary journals. On a normal day, a haul that big would have cost him more than $1,000. On Sunday, he paid only $160 at the Seventh Annual Literary Magazine Fair.

The Problem With Magazine Best-Doctor Lists (Slate)
Kent Sepkowitz: Every year the New York mag survey gets it about half right: Half of the selections are first-rate doctors. Another 25 percent are people whom I don't know well, and 25 percent are doctors who haven't seen a patient in years but have risen to the lofty realm of high society and semi-celebrityhood.

Turn NYT Columnists Into Bloggers? (PBS)
Mark Glaser: What if those columnists became bloggers? And what if the Times helped direct its massive online traffic to help promote these bloggers? John Battelle, who runs Federated Media Publishing, says it would be hard to gauge the ad revenues they would bring in.

Kenneth Thomson, Who Made Data Giant From a Newspaper Company, Dies (NYT)
Kenneth R. Thomson, a shy art collector who built Canada's largest fortune by transforming his father's trans-Atlantic newspaper business into one of the world's leading providers of electronic data and information, died on Monday at 82.