"Time Inc. has selected Stockholm's Bonnier Group as the winner of the auction for the right to buy 18 of Time Inc.'s magazines. There was no immediate word on the price that Bonnier will pay, but the terms are in place and a deal should close within a month." That's what AdAge said, but then they pulled it. So who knows? [AdAge]
Fired WSJ employees can at least take comfort in the fact that Dow Jones execs are sharing the pain. Oh, whoops, they're totally not. [Reuters]
Time M.E. Rick Stengel has offers out to NYT'sTom Friedman, Maureen Dowd, Adam Liptak, and Sarah Lyall, Weekly Standard's Matt Labash, TNR's Ryan Lizza, Slate's Dahlia Lithwack and Jim Holt, New Yorker's Peter Boyer. Well, there are plenty of empty desks. [NYO]
Rupert Murdoch jumps into the Tribune bidding. [The Age]
Jon Friedman on both Radar "scoopmeister" Jeff Bercovici and the NME. Our cups runneth well and truly over. [MarketWatch]
ABC's Elizabeth Vargas says she wasn't pushed out of the anchor slot. Nah. She just tripped and fell into a doorknob. You know how it happens. [TVNewser]
Anderson Cooper: "the Paris Hilton of television news," according to Fox. We guess that would make Bill O'Reilly its Kim Kardashian. [NYT]
Next up from Jared Kushner: The Jersey Observer? We can already see the couples therapy column: "Not for nothin', George, but ya treat me like shit and I'm sick of it." "Fuck you, Hilly, go make me my fuckin' Taylor Ham and Cheese already." [NYP]