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GMA Taps Cuomo to Join Sawyer, Roberts (AP via MSNBC)
Chris Cuomo will be working the early shift as news anchor of Good Morning America. Cuomo, who is also an anchor of ABC News' Primetime, will begin his dawn duties Sept. 5, joining anchors Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts at the GMA studio in Times Square. TVNewser: GMA executive producer Jim Murphy: "I look at Chris in much the same way people at NBC looked at Matt Lauer ten years ago."

Mags' Newsstand Sales Fall (Reuters)
Single-copy sales of magazines fell more than 4 percent to about 48.7 million copies in the first half of 2006, according to preliminary figures provided by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Among newsweeklies, Time magazine reported the biggest fall in newsstand sales of 24 percent.

Turner Broadcasting Cutting Smoking Scenes in More Than 1,500 Classic Cartoons (AOL)
The move is in response to a British Media regulator's bulletin stating that a viewer had complained about two smoking scenes on Tom and Jerry. In one of the two, "Texas Tom," the hapless cat Tom tries to impress a feline female by rolling a cigarette, lighting it and smoking it with one hand.

Justice Department to Investigate Leak to CBS Report (NY Sun)
A federal judge has ordered a Justice Department probe into how CBS News obtained a story two years ago disclosing an FBI investigation into a pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Newspapers Trim Work Forces as Advertising Slows (Reuters)
The summer of 2006 has brought a rash of notices of job buyouts and layoffs at U.S. newspapers, and experts say more nips and tucks will come as advertising dollars dry up and more readers cancel their subscriptions. Nearly all the recent announcements promise pinpoint reductions rather than deep cuts.

AOL Moves to Increase Privacy on Search Queries (NYT)
AOL, a unit of Time Warner, said it planned to enhance data-privacy protections, reconsider the length of time that it holds onto the millions of search queries that customers make every day and re-educate its own employees about the sensitivity of personal data. WSJ via FishbowlNY: AOL to CTO: You've been axed.

YouTube to Add to Ads (LAT)
After attracting millions of eyeballs, YouTube hopes to cash in on its popularity with online infomercials. Starting today, the video-sharing site plans to let advertisers create "channels" filled with clips they produce themselves — and then in turn sell sponsorships to other advertisers.

Gulf Coast Papers Plan Katrina Anniversary Coverage (E&P)
As the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina looms, newspapers in the still-recovering Gulf Coast region are walking a careful tightrope between not hitting readers too hard with stark reminders of the most devastating natural disaster in U.S. history and giving it deserved recognition.

Jill Carroll Suspects Sunni Politician in Kidnapping (AP via E&P)
Reporter Jill Carroll suspects an influential Sunni politician or someone from his Baghdad office may have set up her abduction. But Carroll's captors also told her Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the Iraqi Accordance Front, met at least twice with the chief captor, and publicly pleaded for them to let her go.

Another WaPo Writer Slams Kornheiser (In Jest?) (WaPo)
Gene Weingarten: The failed Tony Kornheiser stewardship of Monday Night Football's color chair last night took yet another bumbling misstep toward its inevitable humiliating collapse. ... Kornheiser blithely mangled both facts and figures, ignorant even of the laws of physics.

Chinese Court May Rule Soon on Times Researcher (NYT)
Zhao Yan, a Chinese researcher for the New York Times who has been jailed for nearly two years on charges of leaking state secrets to the newspaper, may learn the verdict in his case as soon as Friday, according to one of his lawyers.

Hardcore Porn During News Show Shocks Swedes (The Local)
As responsible late night TV viewers in Sweden were watching an informative presentation of the latest political poll numbers on the country's public service SVT station, hardcore group sex could be seen playing on one of the numerous video screens over the news presenter's shoulder.

Media Giving Scant Coverage to Kidnapped Fox Journos? (CJR Daily)
Felix Gillette: It's been a week now since kidnappers seized Fox News correspondent Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig off the streets of Gaza City. And, in recent days, many bloggers have started to wonder why there hasn't been more media attention surrounding the kidnappings.

Does It Matter When Time Comes Out? (Slate)
Jack Shafer: Who among us has leafed through his copy of Time magazine and then raged over the fact that it comes out on Monday when he'd rather get it on Friday for consumption during his leisurely weekend? Not I.

Oprah Picks First Students for Her New School in South Africa (Guardian)
Oprah Winfrey used her tactic of springing surprises on her audiences when she told 73 girls who had turned up for an interview that they had been selected for a new school she is building in South Africa. Winfrey has been working for six years on creating the school for disadvantaged girls.