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Teen People: Lived Fast, Died Young (FishbowlNY)
Time Inc. e-mail to staff: "We regret to inform you that we are suspending publication of Teen People magazine, effective with the September 2006 issue. We will continue to invest in the brand through TeenPeople.com which shows promise and growth." WSJ: The move is part of an overall effort at Time Inc. to reduce the number of magazine it publishes. NYT: Despite the importance of celebrity news, the shutting of Teen People could signal a contraction of an overstuffed category. NYP: Sources estimate the mag's annual losses to be under $5 million. Mediaweek: Paid circulation for Teen People fell 3.9 percent to 1.5 million in the second half of 2005. Eat The Press: Editor Lori Majewski is out. AdAge: Teen magazines are "costly to service subscriptions to, given the audience ages out every few years."

Philadelphia Papers Team Up With Monster.com (Philly Daily News)
Philadelphia Media Holdings, the new owners of the Daily News, Inquirer and Philly.com, announced that it has struck a deal with Monster.com to launch "a strategic alliance" on new employment ads in the nation's fourth-largest media market. Inky: Online ads are a small but rapidly growing moneymaker for newspapers, which have been scrambling to hold onto help-wanted customers and profits as more hiring offices and job-seekers move to the Web.

Thanks, Jeopardy, For All the Money and Fame, But You Suck (AP via CNN)
In a snarky "Dear Jeopardy!" letter, the winningest contestant ever needles the game show for being out of step and out of date. He calls the show's categories "effete, left-coast crap nobody's heard of" and even snipes at show host Alex Trebek.

Entertainment Industry Launches Campaign to Head Off New Indecency Rules (LAT)
The entertainment industry announced a $300 million initiative this spring to show parents how to block objectionable TV shows, but the strategy failed: Congress hiked the fines tenfold. Yet the coalition of movie studios, broadcasters and cable and satellite operators is pressing ahead anyway.

TiVo Is Watching When You Don't Watch, And It Tattles (NYT)
As the advertising and television industries debate how to measure viewers of shows watched on digital video recorders, the pioneering maker of the recorders, TiVo, is starting a research division to sell data about how its users watch commercials — or, more often, skip them.

Reuters Revenue Up 9% (Guardian)
Wire service Reuters said revenues had grown 9 percent in the first half of the year, taking account of currency fluctuations and including the effect of acquisitions. The company is predicting growth of between 5 percent and 6 percent on a similar basis over the course of the whole financial year.

Verdict Delayed for Times' Beijing Aide (NYT)
Chinese authorities told lawyers for jailed New York Times researcher Zhao Yan that the verdict in the case would be delayed, even though the lawyers said the court had been required to deliver a decision on Tuesday. Zhao is accused of fraud and leaking state secrets to the newspaper.

Celeb Titles Crowd Womens' Mags (NY Sun)
Myrna Blyth: The celebrity weeklies appeal to so-called "millenials" — teenagers and young women in their 20s — an audience that many advertisers hanker after. Advertisers seem to care less these days about the environment in which they place their ads and are instead following these younger readers.

Blogging Soldiers' Worldwide Enemy: Journalists (WSJ)
Military bloggers, or "milbloggers" as they call themselves, contend that they are uniquely qualified to comment on events in armed conflicts. Many also argue that the mainstream media tends to overplay negative stories and downplay positive military developments.

The Best Writing in the NYT: The TV Listings? (Slate)
Jack Shafer: If you want to write better, an old mentor of mine once said, write tighter. He wasn't thinking about the film capsules in the New York Times' daily TV listings, but he could have been. Outside the classified pages, nobody does more with language with less space in the paper.

The YouTube Devolution (NYO)
Tom Scocca: YouTube stands as the opposite of old television because, above all, it's easy. It doesn't demand that you install a player; it doesn't crash your browser. It embeds in blogs and plays there, freely. What it does, then, is break the synchrony of television. It makes television work like text.

New Yorker Librarians Launch Column On Non-New Yorker Blog (FishbowlNY)
The New Yorker's head librarians, Jon Michaud and Erin Overbey, have taken the unusual step of initiating a column on Emily Gordon's Emdashes blog, answering readers' questions each month about the magazine's miscellany and history.

Writers Feud Over Slay Story (Page Six)
It's war between two authors on the case of Christa Worthington, the stunning Cape Cod heiress and fashion writer who was murdered four years ago. Biographer Peter Manso says Maria Flook trashed him so maliciously in her book that many of his sources have dried up.

A Backward Look at 'Uncle Walter' Cronkite (WaPo)
Tom Shales: Walter Cronkite deserves a better documentary. CBS' look back registers in the high end of mediocrity, only occasionally striking a stirringly evocative note. The best parts are the vintage news reports and the iconic moments that several generations will forever associate with Cronkite.

Addicted to Proofreading (Salon)
Melissa Holbrook Pierson: I have written three books, but I have been paid to read hundreds. And no matter how many books I publish, I can't kick my addiction to my other occupation, the scorned one that offers me succor and sanity: Proofreading.