• Should you consider Us Weekly an “upper echelon” magazine, then you’ll understand how publisher Jann Wenner thought he could make a cheaper spin-off of the celeb weekly. But after months of planning it looks like Wenner will have to settle with struggling to keep Men’s Journal afloat instead of a new Olsen twin haven. [NYP]
• Judith Miller and the New York Times may have their reunion sooner than expected. As early as next week the paper’s former starlet could return to the newsroom, just in time to delete those Scooter Libby love letter emails. [NYO]
• Why is Anderson Cooper going to get the better NewsNight slot? Because hot gay men with grey hair get better ratings. [TVNewser]
• One thing we never accused Niche Media’s Jason Binn of doing was stealing. And, discounting his “borrowing” of Boston magazine’s advertiser database for his Boston Common, his repurposing of Town & Country for Gotham and Hamptons will only be the second time we didn’t accuse him of stealing. [WWD]