Press Shines at Congressional Dinner [FishbowlDC]
A full report from last night's Washington Press Club Foundation Congressional Dinner.

Have actors and writers reached "the same conclusions"? It Depends [FishbowlLA]
A few weeks ago, I was chatting with Writers Guild of America, West president Patric Verrone, and he told me that while the actors and writers of Hollywood might not be on the same paths, they'd at least reached "the same conclusions" about getting better treatment from producers when it came to residuals from DVDs and product placement.

"Backbone As Flimsy As His Bow Tie?" [TVNewser]
Why did Chicago Tribune managing editor James O'Shea write this email to Tucker Carlson?

At Least They're Throwing Someone Else's Papers Away This Time [FishbowlNY]
It's only appropriate, considering it was Karl Marx who quipped that history repeats itself the second time as farce, that it was a pair of entreprenurial deliveryman for the blue-collar New York Daily News who have been busted for allegedly stealing stacks of The New York Times and the New York Post from a newsstand at the Nassau station on the Long Island Railroad.

In Cars [MBToolbox]
If you love the automotives, maybe you should write about them.

Clio Honors Him for 4000 Commercials, We Honor Him for the "Ghostbusters" Logo [Unbeige]
This year's Clio Lifetime Achievement Award goes to motion graphics legend Bob Greenberg, the guy who has consistently blown our minds for 29 years.

It's a good week for HarperCollins [Galleycat]
Especially as the reports come in of a record second quarter operating income of $77 million, an increase of $15 million (and almost 25 percent) over the same period from just a year ago. What's responsible? Sales of the Narnia books, the continued success of Freakonomics as well as John Grogan's Marley and Me and Michael Crichton's State of Fear. Total book publishing sales rose from $377 million to $390 million.