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NBCU's Zucker Courts Jon Stewart (B&C)
After NBC Universal's high-profile signing of Ben Silverman for the top programming job, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart might be next on the Peacock's wish list. NBC Universal president/chief executive Jeff Zucker and NBC Entertainment/Universal Media Studios co-chair Marc Graboff recently wined and dined the satirical news anchor and his agent, James Dixon.

GE and Pearson Are Said to Study Bid for Dow Jones (NYT)
The two companies are exploring a joint bid for Dow Jones & Company to rival an offer made by the News Corporation. If such a bid were made and accepted, it would create a financial news powerhouse combining the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Financial Times and Dow Jones Newswires. FT: Dow Jones rival bid may include family.

Dennis Publishing Goes to Quadrangle (WWD)
The private equity group has bought Maxim, Stuff and Blender, and ex-Wenner executive Kent Brownridge has been installed as CEO. Sources close to the deal said Quadrangle acquired the trio for just north of $240 million. Steven Colvin, former president of Dennis Publishing USA, is leaving, but sources said Brownridge has asked top exec John Lagana to stay. Mediaweek: Brownridge will have little room to cut costs; he's expected instead to grow revenue by beefing up the marketing staff to create more customized ad plans across Maxim's myriad of brand extensions. He also is likely to eye expansion of the online properties and create TV partnerships.

Top Two US Newspapers Want to Get Into Magazines (AdAge)
Both the Wall Street Journal and USA Today are developing glossy magazines for distribution within their traditional newsprint flagships. If they succeed, the projects will point to one of magazines' advantages in the digital age: That a coterie of beauty, fashion and other lifestyle advertisers are happier to spend money if their ads appear on thick, glossy pages.

Price Coming Up Rosie? (NYDN)
Bob Barker endorsed his friend Rosie O'Donnell as a possible successor on The Price Is Right, although the newly retired host isn't sure CBS wants a woman to take over the game show. "I believe they're going to have a meeting with Rosie," Barker said backstage Friday night at the Daytime Emmy Awards, where he won his 19th trophy.

Page Six Expands (NYT)
On Thursday for the first time, the gossip column — which no longer runs on the sixth page of the paper — occupied three pages. Along with the column's usual fodder (a photo of Britney Spears getting out of a car, details on the divorce of a Hollywood power couple) were advertisements for Coach bags and for a sale at the upscale clothing chain Searle.

BBC Report Finds Bias Within Corporation (Telegraph)
The BBC has failed to promote proper debate on major political issues because of the inherent liberal culture of its staff, a report has concluded. The report claims that coverage of single-issue political causes, such as climate change and poverty, can be biased — and is particularly critical of Live 8 coverage. It warns that celebrities must not be pandered to and allowed to hijack the BBC schedule.

What If Conrad Black Returns? (Chicago Tribune)
It's the worst nightmare for executives at Sun-Times Media Group Inc.: Conrad Black, the company's former chief executive, is acquitted of criminal charges and regains his position as the company's controlling shareholder. Black once again fills the board with his associates, fires executives who deserted him during his darkest hour and perhaps seeks to be reinstated as CEO.

Watergate at 35: How 'Woodstein' Did It (E&P)
Even though nine reporters worked the Watergate break-in story that Saturday in June 1972, only Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein showed up the next day to report on the strange story. Neither was thrilled to see the other. E&P: If Watergate had broken today, chances are someone would have posted a news story with inaccurate information too early, or the in-depth reporting needed might have been neglected in favor of quicker, more immediate, and more broad-interest scoops, writes Joe Strupp.

New Capos' Taut Smiles at HBO (NYT)
David Carr: The keening that followed the 11 seconds of inky blackness at the end of The Sopranos finale has finally begun to die down. But the executives at HBO could be forgiven for feeling like they are still staring into that dark place. No matter how it is spun, HBO is confronting midlife crisis with a great deal of thickness around the middle.

Publishing House Encourages Napping on the Job (New Yorker)
Peter Workman, the founder and chief executive of Workman Publishing, is known among his employees as a stickler for traditional business hours. In January, though, the house published Take a Nap! Change Your Life, by Sara Mednick, and Workman was persuaded that his own minions ought to be encouraged to fall asleep on the job.

The Usual Suspects, Pleading for Balance in the Court of Hype (WaPo)
Howard Kurtz: Journalists are getting whacked from every side, poked in the eye by public figures disgusted with what passes for news these days. Not that we don't deserve it. But those assuming the mantle of cultural critic have — not surprisingly — their own self-justifying agendas. Independent: How Tony Blair and his team portrayed media's lapdogs as "feral beasts." Guardian: Tony Blair may have been offensive when he called the media "a feral beast," but he was right to accuse journalists of hunting together.

Media Guy's Simple Pleasures: Tina Brown, 'Mad Men,' Sopranos Kremlinology (AdAge)
Simon Dumenco: I have to say, I didn't realize how much I missed Tina Brown! Seriously, I'm delighted that Brown's new biography of Princess Diana is thrusting her back into the spotlight (well, somewhat), and I love the cheerfully humbled (well, somewhat) stance she's been taking regarding her career (i.e., admitting that leaving the editorship of The New Yorker to start up Talk magazine was a big mistake).

Citizens Are the Media in South Korea (LAT)
Although traditional newspapers and magazines around the world are cutting jobs amid declining circulation and a shift toward the Internet, OhmyNews continues to recruit. It currently has a reporting corps of 50,000. The company's motto, posted outside its crammed office in central Seoul, is a big help-wanted sign: "Every citizen can be a reporter."

Troubling Leak at the Times (New York)
The New York Times's new building has a leak — and it's in the office of top editor Bill Keller. "Apparently, they hadn't applied the final coat of sealant to the overhang on the third floor," says spokeswoman Catherine Mathis. There was also a "big rat" scurrying around Metro editor Joe Sexton last week — "one so huge it made him turn pale," says one reporter.