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CPB Hired Conservative Journo to Monitor Bill Moyers (NYT)
A researcher retained secretly by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to monitor Now for political objectivity, worked for 20 years at a journalism center founded by the American Conservative Union. WaPo: Public broadcasters air ads against federal cutbacks.

Blame of Chance (E&P)
Journalists Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller may find out this week whether the high court will hear their appeal of a contempt ruling for refusing to disclose who leaked the identity of a CIA agent.

Slipped Them a Wiki (LAT)
The paper launched the experimental Internet "wikitorial" Friday and killed it early Sunday after an unknown user or users posted explicit photos.Guardian: Within hours one user had managed to change the headline on several pages to read "Fuck USA." NYT: Were Slashdot readers responsible for Wikitorial mess?

Gruner+Jahr Expected to Announce Biz Mags Sale Today (Folio:)
The sale of Fast Company and Inc. to Joe Mansueto, the billionaire chairman, CEO and founder of Chicago-based research firm Morningstar, Inc., is said to be all but done. NYT: The $35 million deal is a big loss for G+J, which bought both magazines five years ago for $550 million.

Appeals Court Allows Colleges to Censor Student Papers (Inside Higher Ed)
U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a 1988 Supreme Court decision restricting the free speech rights of high school papers applies to student newspapers subsidized by public colleges and universities, too.

Get Hillary (WaPo)
Orders for the embargoed book, which is to be released today, caused Sentinel, the conservative imprint of Penguin, to print 350,000 copies. Amazon: Book hits #1 on Amazon before publication. Salon: What drove an accomplished New York editor to write a salacious new Hillary Clinton bio that has critics calling him a smear artist? Rebecca Traister investigates. Salon: How the conservative media is pushing The Truth About Hillary.

Ousted amNY Ed: It's a C-O-N-spiracy (NYP)
Alex Storozynski, who has been accused by the paper of failing to attribute information, said the scandal was a ploy to mask a power grab by amNY parent Newsday. Mediabistro: Interested in his job?

BBC Radio Coming Stateside (Guardian)
It will be the first time one of the Beeb's stations will be available to listeners in the U.S., other than via the Internet, and will give many Americans their first taste of British radio.

Writers' Union Takes Aim at Reality TV (NYT)
While reality shows have become a large segment of the television industry, writers on such shows do not get such basic benefits as overtime pay, health or pension plans. Los Angeles Daily News: Nearly 1,000 writers, producers and editors working for major reality television production companies have signed authorization cards for WGA representation.

Viacom, Yahoo! in Market for Web Gaming Co. (NYP)
IGN Entertainment, an Internet company that focuses on the video game industry, is up for sale and could fetch nearly $850 million.

MTV Buys 'Virtual Pets' Site (Bloomberg via NYT)
MTV Networks has bought the closely held Neopets Inc. for $160 million, adding the youth-oriented site to a children's programming lineup that includes SpongeBob SquarePants and Rugrats.

Nick Hornby Goes a Long Way Down (Slate)
Stephen Metcalf: Empathy, decency, ordinary human happiness: Is this really what we want from our old Uncle Nick? What if his younger self were right, and the cost of adulthood is prohibitively high?

NYer Comic Contest Gets 7K-12K Entries Per Week (Baltimore Sun via Newsday)
The magazine publishes a weekly cartoon caption for consideration. The staff picks three finalists from the submissions, prints them and, in a feature befitting American Idol, readers vote online for their favorite caption, and the winner is then printed in a subsequent issue.

Journalism Will Miss Miller (Miami Herald)
"Fighter for justice" Gene Miller saved at least four innocent people from the electric chair during his legendary 48-year career.

Paris Names Square After 'Dreyfus Affair' Journo (Jerusalem Post)
A small square in Paris has been named in honor of Bernard Lazare, the radical turn-of-the-century French Jewish journalist and thinker who was among the first to defend Capt. Alfred Dreyfus.

National Director of Carnegie-Knight J-School Initiative Named (E&P)
Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education has appointed Merrill Brown national editorial director of News for the 21st Century: Incubators of New Ideas, also known as "News21."

Warner Bros. Reaches China Deal (Forbes)
Chinese wireless-Internet company Tom Online Inc. has signed a cooperation agreement to become Warner Bros Online's sole Internet distribution partner in China.

Ready to Rumba? (Time)
James Poniewozik on why America loves a dance contest that dares to be corny.

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