• TheBlaze has named Amy Holmes anchor of “The Hot List” on TheBlaze.com. She will be stepping aside from her role at “Real News.” Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth will join “Real News” as a contributor.

• Time is making a big push in the video journalism space, launching Red Border Films. The documentary film unit will live on an interactive site of Time.com, and will produce films of varying lengths and topics. Time journalists and photojournalists and will produce at least one short documentary per month and two expanded projects a year. Details below.

• At The Wrap, Sara Morrison writes that Al Jazeera America and PBS are diversifying their on-air talent, and wonders if others will follow suit.

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• As we reported last month, David Shuster will join Al Jazeera America. AJAM says he will be NY-based anchor.

• CNBC’s reality series “The Profit” is still doing ok by CNBC’s primetime standards, it did lose a substantial amount of viewership in its second episode. Where will it end up? Stay tuned.

• Former Westinghouse Broadcasting foreign correspondent and ABC News White House reporter Jerry Landay has died at age 83. You can read his obituary here.

• Barbara Walters and Brian Ross are following the story of Paul Fronczak, the man who was believed to be a baby stolen from a Chicago hospital 50 years ago, until he took a DNA test. Walters and Ross try to figure out his true background. More below.

• Keith Olbermann will return to ESPN’s “SportsCenter” for the first time in 16 years tonight. Olbermann will deliver an “essay” (not a “special comment) on Alex Rodriguez.

• The Weather Channel has named Scott Tufts director of content development. Tufts is a veteran of CNN, HLN and TruTV, where he most recently led its live trial coverage “In Session.”

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• CNN president Jeff Zucker‘s 15-year old son has resigned from the board of Waywire, an online video start-up co-founded by Newark Mayor Cory Booker, the New York Post reports. The younger Zucker was hired as a “millennial adviser” and was granted stock options.

• NBC’s “Today” has officially launched its new app for iOS and Android devices. “The new ‘Today’ app is just the first in a series of major launches in the coming months,” NBC News chief digital officer Vivian Schiller says.

• In a deal that rocked the sports media world, Fox Sports inked an agreement with the USGA to carry the U.S. Open golf tournament starting in 2015. Fox and Fox Sports 1 will now have championship golf for the first time, as they continue to add sports rights to compete with ESPN.

• Bradley Manning‘s father Brian talks with Anderson Cooper in his first interview since a military judge convicted his son in the biggest leak in U.S. history. Tonight at 8pmET on AC360.

• Carl Quintanilla hosts #TwitterRevolution, a look at the rise of the social media site and its 200 million users who send 400 million Tweets every day. 9pmET tomorrow night on CNBC.

• “Teach,” a new two-hour special explores America’s education system through the eyes, minds and hearts of teachers. The CBS Entertainment special airs Friday, Sept. 6 at 8pm on CBS.

• Over the weekend NBC News correspondent Michelle Kosinski became engaged to investor Kimbell Duncan. She broke the news on her Facebook page, you can see it here.

• ABC News was among the organizations recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists at its awards gala over the weekend. “GMA” won for coverage of Robin Roberts’ journey, and “ABC World News” won for its Trayvon Martin coverage.

• Season two of C-SPAN’s “First Ladies” series kicks off September 9. The second season will cover the first ladies from Edith Roosevelt through Michelle Obama. The trailer is below.

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• CNN’s Erin Burnett will host a primetime special tomorrow night at 10 PM: “The truth about Benghazi: An Erin Burnett Outfront Special Investigation.” Burnett and correspondents will look into what happened that night in September.

• MSNBC’s Tamron Hall dined with pop legend (and “NewsNation” theme song writer) Prince in New York City. The NY Post has details (h/t J$P)

• At the Television Critics Association Summer press tour on Saturday the TCA Awards were handed out. PBS’ “Central Park Five” doc won in the news and information category. All the winners here.

• The Weather Channel is counter-programming Discovery’s “Shark Week” with theme programming of its own: “Hurricane Week.” There will be a slew of programming related to the powerful Summer storms. Details below.

• The Financial Times talks to Nate Silver about moving to ESPN, and in the process he says that CNN is at a disadvantage in the cable news space because “the energy in politics is on the extremes.”

• The Bill Press Show will be leaving Current TV as it transitions to Al Jazeera America. Press is taking the simulcast of his radio program to Free Speech TV, which has distribution on DISH Network and DirecTV.

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• Eric Deggans, the media critic at the Tampa Bay (formerly St. Petersburg) Times for nearly 18 years, is leaving the paper to become the first TV critic for NPR. He joins in October. “After years of serving as an NPR fan and occasional contributor, I’ll get a chance to join one of the strongest journalism organizations in the nation.”

• Patrick Gavin, Politico’s media reporter — and former editor of mediabistro’s FishbowlDC — will be hosting CNN’s “Reliable Sources” this weekend as the show continues to rotate hosts following Howard Kurtz‘s departure last month to Fox News.

• Greta Van Susteren was blogging before blogging was cool. The FNC host is celebrating 10 years of GretaWire. So, what’s in store for the next 10? For starters, she’d like to “take my iPhone and report from anywhere in the world live to GretaWire.”

• Travel writer, editor and photographer (and Mediabistro alumnus) Michael Luongo has been named the NLGJA 2013 Journalist of the Year while the Sarah Pettit LGBT Journalist of the Year Award goes to Lila Shapiro, a business writer Huffington Post. Luongo and Shapiro will be honored at NLGJA’a annual convention in Boston later this month.

• The son of CBS Radio News’ Howard Arenstein is under arrest for vandalism. 23-year-old Louis Levine Arenstein is accused of defacing of several cars with swastikas in the Cathedral Heights neighborhood of Washington, DC. The elder Arenstein had his own run-in with the law in 2010 when police discovered marijuana in his home.

• CNN Films’ latest documentary “Our Nixon” debuts tonight at 9pmET on CNN. The film is based on Super 8 home movies made by Nixon aides. The Baltimore Sun‘s David Zurawik calls it, “absolutely first-rated history that instantly transports you to the tumultuous times of the late 1960s and early ’70s.”