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Google on Track to Capture 25% of Online Ad Market in U.S. (Marketwatch)
For 2006, Google is expected to report U.S. advertising revenues of $4 billion of the $16 billion expected to be spent. Google's U.S. ad revenues represent a 65 percent jump from the $2.4 billion in comparable revenues reported last year, and demonstrates how Google continues to pull away from Yahoo.

Pentagon Defends Indefinite Detention of AP Photog in Iraq (AP via IHT)
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman, in a letter to the Committee to Protect Journalists, did not provide details about why Iraqi photographer Bilal Hussein continues to be held without charges at a U.S.-run prison camp.

Wikipedia Founder Plans New Site (FT)
One of the founders of Wikipedia is days away from launching a rival to the collaborative Internet encyclopedia, in an attempt to bring a more orderly approach to organizing knowledge online. The latest venture from Larry Sanger, who helped create Wikipedia in 2001, is intended to bring more order to this creative chaos by drawing on traditional measures of authority.

James Truman Departure From Art Mag Over Tension With Owner (NYP)
One friend said that although Louise T. Blouin MacBain is a multimillionaire, she was tightfisted on editorial costs. "She cheaped out on him every inch of the way," said one. Another said she had little patience for the investments needed in the magazines, which include Art & Auction, Modern Painters and Gallery Guide. Truman, the former Condé Nast editorial director, said he now wants to start his own company.

Editor and Publisher of Toronto Star Resign (CP via Vancouver Sun)
A shakeup in the upper ranks of Canada's largest-circulation newspaper, resulted in both the publisher and editor-in-chief being replaced Monday. Gone from the paper are publisher Michael Goldbloom and editor-in-chief Giles Gherson, who had run the paper since 2004.

MTV Buys Teen Community Site Quizilla.com (AFX via Forbes)
The Viacom division bought the site from Gorilla Nation Media LLC for an undisclosed sum. The Web site is a user-generated community of teen authors who create and share quizzes, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, polls, and other creative content.

152nd Journalist Killed in Iraq (UPI)
The weekend killing of an Iraqi radio correspondent and producer has brought the number of journalists killed since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion to 152. Raed Qaies, 29, died Saturday in southern Baghdad, the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate said. He worked for Sawt Al Iraq, or Voice of Iraq, and was a producer of economic news for Somer Radio.

Sami's Shame — and Ours (TimesSelect via Donkey OD)
Nicholas Kristof: There is no public evidence that Sami al-Hajj committed any crime other than journalism for a television network the Bush administration doesn't like. But the U.S. has been holding Mr. Hajj, a cameraman for Al Jazeera, for nearly five years without trial. This doesn't look like a war on terrorism, but a war on our own values.

The Columnist Who Shut Up to Speak Out (WaPo)
Less than a year after winning a Pulitzer Prize, Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz tucked away her pen and pad to support her congressman husband in the toughest race of his career — and one of the most important, most intense, most eyeballed matches of the 2006 campaign season.

Blogger Josh Wolf May Be Longest-Jailed Journalist in History (SF Chron)
Blogger Josh Wolf, spending his 57th day in federal prison yersterday for refusing to surrender video he shot of a violent San Francisco protest, is well on his way to becoming the longest-jailed journalist in U.S. history. To the government, the 24-year-old San Franciscan is hindering a federal grand jury investigation. To Wolf and his supporters, he is the latest victim of an assault on journalists.

The People's Republic of YouTube (LAT)
Patrick Goldstein: Welcome to the new media universe, where for millions of video junkies, the best TV network in America isn't Comedy Central, MTV, ESPN or even HBO, but YouTube, the amazing website whose video clips are viewed more than 100 million times each day. YouTube is something special, a great leap forward in the democratization of pop culture. Times of London: EU directive will try to police online video.

Wired Founding Editor: Online Journalists Like Radio Talk Show Hosts (OJR)
"[Online journalism] is much more like performance art" than traditional journalism, says John Battelle. "I would compare the skill set [with that of] a radio talk show host. They talk to each other, they interview people and they take calls, and 50 percent of the callers are regular commentators. ... Blogs in particular have that same kind of conversation."

Is WaPo Taking Woodward's Table Scraps? (CJR Daily)
One of the knocks on Bob Woodward's relationship with the Washington Post — and really, on Woodward in general — has been that he routinely keeps his best scoops out of the pages of the Post in order to save them for his books. A recent interview for the paper seems to confirm this.

Fight for the Future of Newspapers (NY Sun)
Paul Greenberg: There's nothing wrong with American journalism that couldn't be cured by a few more publishers who take their responsibility personally, and a few more tough old broads who can not only write but think — a la Oriana Fallaci. Instead we get snappy neo-McCarthyites like Ann Coulter on one side and fashionables like Maureen Dowd on the other.

The Art of Being a New Media Mogul According to 'YouRangster' CEO (AdAge)
Simon Dumenco: The Internet world was shocked last week, of course, when Google's surprise $1.65 billion bid to acquire YouTube was announced and was quickly followed by Microsoft's $1.66 billion surprise bid to acquire "YouRangster." The [fictitious] company's founder, youthful tech mogul Chuck Chenly, discusses the changing mobile-media landscape-and the art of the deal.