1. ink-stained wretches
    When Party Reporters Turn 30: The Miraculous Transformation of Spencer MorganFrom late-night club-crawler to squeaky clean, soon-to-be married dad. Is this a sign of our times?
  2. in other news
    Dan Rather Refiles Suit, Adds ChargesThis time, he claims that CBS prevented him from working anywhere else after he left the network.
  3. in other news
    Thomas Roberts, Other Gay Anchors, Open Up to ‘The Advocate’The gay newsmagazine tackles an issue we’ve been wanting to, um, tackle for a long time.
  4. early and often
    Media Glee at Clinton’s Fall Makes HeadlinesOur favorite titles from this morning’s “straight” news coverage of the collapse of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
  5. ink-stained wretches
    Maureen Dowd Defends Funny Political JournalismShe also defends using humor in political commentary. To which we say, wait, everybody else is trying to be serious?
  7. company town
    Murdoch Won’t Go Any Higher on ‘Newsday’ BidAlso, Microsoft gives up on Yahoo, Berkshire Hathaway’s profits tank briefly, and Buzz Bissinger apologizes to Will Leitch, all in our daily industry roundup.
  8. intel
    Harvard Students Reach for ‘Gossip Girl’ Greatness With Gossip Geek BlogBut, of course, they fall short. No wonder no one on the show wants to go there!
  9. party lines
    Our Night at the ASMEs: Sportier Than AnticipatedEditors, nerves, competition, and one aggressive former Met mingled at last night’s awards ceremony.
  10. cultural capital
    ‘Times’ Gets Kinda Pervy in Miley Cyrus ArticleAlso, New York schoolgirls reveal whether they’re standing by Hannah Montana or dropping her like a too-difficult calculus class.
  11. intel
    Barbara Walters and Senator Edward Brooke: The Secret Was Already OutTheir affair was the talk of the town while it was happening, discussed in a gossip column and even, notably, once on television.
  12. white men with money
    Despite Cablevision’s Higher Bid for ‘Newsday,’ Zell Still Prefers MurdochTurns out the two media moguls have a “budding relationship.” How adorable! And TERRIFYING.
  13. in other news
    Bloomberg, Baby, You’ve Got a Real Problem on Your HandsA slew of other women join the class-action suit against Bloomberg LP for discrimination of female employees.
  14. in other news
    New Yorkers Rule the ‘Time’ 100!But we still don’t entirely get the system. Where is Hathaello!?
  15. cultural capital
    Martha Stewart Equally Excited About Perez Hilton and President BushThe amateur blogger takes on the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, and we applaud her efforts.
  16. in other news
    Alex Kuczynski Totally Had Her Baby, and We Didn’t Even NoticeAnd it’s a darling boy named Maxime Dudley. We imagine how great his life is going to be.
  17. cultural capital
    Brian Williams Hates Puff Pieces, Unless Topless 15-Year-Olds Are InvolvedThe NBC anchor has taken the ‘Times’ to task for all of its fluff coverage, but he devoted a surprising amount of time to the whole Miley Cyrus “scandal” last night.
  18. company town
    Eliot Spitzer Saga to Be Made Into Enron-Style BookAlso in our daily industry roundup: No recession! High-end boutiques on the LES! And law professors suing students!
  19. in other news
    ‘CBS Evening News’ Sinks to New DepthsCouric & Co. have their worst ratings yet.
  20. ink-stained wretches
    ‘Journal’ Oversight Committee’s Protests Come Too LateThe oversight board, meant to protect the paper’s editorial integrity, says Murdoch’s move to oust Marcus Brauchli violates the “letter and spirit” of its bylaws. Too bad there’s nothing they can do about it now.
  21. company town
    Jonathan Franzen’s Latest (Unsurprising) Target Is Michiko Kakutani’Vanity Fair’ fights back over the Miley Cyrus pictures, Stuyvesant Town has a square dance, and more, in our daily industry roundup.
  22. white men with money
    Bloomberg to Solve Country’s Problems the Old-fashioned Way: With Self-help BookThe mayor is currently working on a tome titled: ‘Do the Hard Things First (and Other Bloomberg Rules for Business and Politics).’
  23. ink-stained wretches
    How Do You Know If Your Writing Is Crap?The way to find out is easier than you think. So easy even we could do it!
  24. early and often
    Where in the World Is Matt Lauer’s Mach 5?In which we hate on the ‘Today’ show host’s nasty stubble.
  25. company town
    Buyouts Not Enough? ‘Times’ Newsroom Braces for ClearanceAlso, the rest of today’s media, finance, law and real-estate news.
  26. ink-stained wretches
    Rupert Murdoch and Robert Thomson: A Tale of the TapeIn which we discover why Murdoch loves Thomson so much: They may be exactly the same person!
  27. intel
    Taxi TV: Turn It Up or Turn It Off?In which we ask: Are you one of those people who idly watches the new in-cab programming? Or do you angrily poke at the screen until it mercifully blacks out?
  28. company town
    Zuckerman, Sulzberger, and the News Corp. Board Weigh In on Murdoch’s ‘Newsday’ BidOnce again, the Aussie media mogul is all over our daily industry roundup.
  29. in other news
    Even Though Larry King Will Stay at CNN, Couric Could Still Come OverLarry might not have a lock on the 9 p.m. time slot, leaving a perfect, Katie-size opening.
  30. ink-stained wretches
    Marcus Brauchli’s Ouster: the ‘Journal’ Version vs. the ‘Observer’ VersionEach paper has a distinctly different “take” in their extensive coverage of Brauchli’s departure.
  31. ink-stained wretches
    Rupert Murdoch to Give ‘Newsday’ the Brauchli Treatment?He’s all over the news today, for his potential ‘Newsday’ deal, and for the backstory behind Marcus Brauchli’s ouster at the ‘Journal.’
  32. ink-stained wretches
    Murdoch Closing In, Er, Even Closer on ‘Newsday’Gawker reports that a rival bidder has dropped out. Is it too late to stop News Corp. from taking over the world?
  33. cultural capital
    Brian Williams Will Be Your Anchorblogger TonightCheck out BriWi’s MySpace page! He likes Vampire Weekend and hates Penn Station — just like us! (Except, dude, who is still on MySpace?)
  34. ink-stained wretches
    Memo: Marcus Brauchli Thinks News Corp. Should Pick a Managing Editor They LikeThe outgoing ‘Journal’ editor officially announces his resignation in a letter to his staff.
  35. company town
    Les Moonves Has Bigger Fish to Fry Than Katie CouricHe’s got to deal with Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman, who the ‘Post’ says is out for Moonves’s neck.
  36. 21 questions
    Bill Hemmer Drinks Stella Artois, on TapThe Fox News anchor answers our 21 most important questions for New Yorkers.
  37. ink-stained wretches
    ‘Journal’ Managing Editor Out, Murdoch In?Speculation as to why Marcus Brauchli is leaving, after only serving as managing editor for eleven months, is rampant.
  38. in other news
    CNN Capitalizes on Its Own Callous WordplayA new line of T-shirts is available on CNN.com, using their sometimes-bizarre headlines as slogans.
  39. in other news
    Les Moonves Comes Out for KatieBut we don’t think he did it aggressively enough. Where’s that fighting spirit?
  40. ink-stained wretches
    Felix Dennis to Journalism Student: ‘You’re Hung Like a Horse!’The former ‘Maxim’ publisher addressed Columbia students last night.
  41. ink-stained wretches
    Paula Froelich of ‘Page Six’ Enters the Fiction FrayThe laugh-it-up columnist just sold her ‘Sex and the City’–type debut novel to Simon & Schuster.
  42. party lines
    In Which Tom Wolfe Is Confused About PodcastsA literary hero flummoxes us for a moment when he asks, out of the blue, about one of today’s boring technological marvels
  43. company town
    Good-bye ‘Real Housewives of New York,’ Hello ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’!Not enough ‘Times’ newsroom workers are taking the buyouts, BlackBerrys are outlawed at a law firm, and Ikea is finally arriving.
  44. ink-stained wretches
    Elaine Kaufman Death Scare at the ‘Post’ — All Col’s Fault?For a short period of time last Thursday, the tabloid was thrown into a devastated tailspin at the news that the beloved restaurateur had died. Good thing it wasn’t true.
  45. ink-stained wretches
    ‘Law & Order’ to Make Jared Paul Stern a Blood-Stained WretchThe former “Page Six”–er will get deep sixed on Dick Wolf’s hit show.
  46. ink-stained wretches
    First Review of James Frey’s ‘Bright Shiny Morning’ Out’Publishers Weekly’ editor Sara Nelson says this new tome might be the harbinger of a “new Frey tradition.”
  47. in other news
    One Other Thing We Loved About That Chris Matthews StoryIn which an MSNBC publicist is artfully and deservingly skewered.
  48. ink-stained wretches
    Matt Taibbi to Erica Jong: ‘I Don’t Want to Do My Mother’At the Huffington Post, the novelist and the ‘Rolling Stone’ writer really get into it. And by “it,” we mean trivial nastiness of the rhetorical sort.
  49. intel
    See All the New ‘Gossip Girl’ OMFG AdsThe CW has released a whole set of steamy new advertisements for the Greatest Show of Our Time, and they want you to get bleeping excited about it.
  50. in other news
    The Couric Countdown Has Already BegunAs we learn more about the meetings and discussions behind yesterday’s report that Couric may leave CBS in 2009, it seems like she’s already planning life after the evening news.
  51. ink-stained wretches
    ‘Out’ and ‘The Advocate’ Sold for $6 MillionPlanetOut Inc. sold the two prominent gay magazines to Here Networks, in a deal that may leave the staff office-less by the end of the month.
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