• Wireless-entertainment provider Kargo Global sues Cargo magazine for copyright infringement. Also, one imagines, for poor newsstand. [Mediaweek]
• Freelancers often go without health insurance. Who knew? [MetroNY]
• Are Americans getting growing tired of celeb news? God we hope not. [Economist]
• Time Inc. EIC John Huey — who ousted Jim Seymore to install Rick Tetzeli as Entertainment Weekly's editor a few years ago, is now jumping back in to shuffle Tetzeli's top editorial ranks after a crappy 2005. [NYP (second item)]

This is, we're told, a real job listing:

WWD's towering inferno, Jeff Bercovici, gets his hands on Michael Caruso wrongful-termination suit against Wenner Media for today's paper, and he fleshes out the details of what the ousted Men's Journal editor is charging — and what he's demanding.

It's damned hard to find decent, interesting writing jobs these days, as we all know. And it's even hard for recent graduates of prestigious Ivy League schools.

What's there today? Some highlights:

When we heard this afternoon that controversial Harvard President Larry Summers announced he'll leave the university's top office at the end of the semester, we knew something significant had happened. Lacking any Ivy in our backgrounds, however, we also knew we'd never be able to make any sense of it. This is clearly the sort of thing one will be expected to know about when one travels in smarty-pants media-y circles in this city, and we realized we needed help. We turned to Gawker's I-Went-to-School-Near-Boston Correspondent — a Harvard grad of our acquaintance who wants to be called Magnus — to tell us, and you, what happened.

We do not know how soul-deadening it must be to work for a media company based in suburban Connecticut. Nor do we know how frustrating it must be to work for a trade pub covering a beat — magazines — that is comprehensively and aggressively covered by a phalanx of widely read daily reporters. But we can develop a strong hunch with today's news that Folio: senior editor Dylan Stableford has chosen to leave his Connecticut-based trade mag and instead join the huddled masses at Mediabistro. He'll be managing editor/media news for the job-listings service, in which capacity he'll be "covering all media as well as events and features — in addition to a ton of other stuff."

Our value-conscious brother Consumerist has started taking after his big brother Gawk and now enjoys scouring the outer edges of Cragislist for education and amusement. Today he points us to this listing, found in the barters section, which provides a whole new way of trying to break into this godforsaken business:

We are, as you might imagine, chronically discontented. We're always looking for something new and different and better, and our current plan is to find a job where we get things like a computer the boss provides and perhaps a water cooler and — call us nutty — maybe even dental. So today we've been taking advantage of the fact we work from home, and we're spending our free time searching shiny new Gawker Jobs for some ticket out of this hellhole.

Dashing Joe Hagan, the media-reporting up-and-comer who only nine months ago left the peach playpen of The New York Observer, where he'd been the NYTV columnist, to take over the media beat at The Wall Street Journal, is now set to leave the Journal and become a contract writer at New York mag. There's no formal announcement yet, but we understand Hagan will start with New York in late March, and he'll write on topics including media, business, and cultural institutions.

Gawker is looking for an unpaid intern to take Gawker Stalker to the next level (more on that soon). Before any overeager college students start tidying up the resumes, let's clarify: We need a warm body to plug some data for us a few times per day (depending), starting ASAP. It could be very little work, it could be a slight pain in the ass — but it should never total more than 1.5 hours of your time, spread throughout the day. The position isn't necessarily permanent, but if you work out, we'll definitely keep you around and buy you beer and candy.

Time Inc. staffers can now exhale. Word came yesterday that 30 editorial staffers — concentrated at Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Money, and the already hard-hit flagship, Time — have accepted voluntary buyout packages, ending the current round of job cuts. So if you work for the world's largest mag publisher, and if you still have your job today, you can be confident you'll still have your job tomorrow and the day after, too. Will you still have it in six or nine months? Well, that's another story. (Who knows what further cutback plans Ann Moore has up her sleeve?)

There were lots of reasons, as blogger Kyle du Ford points out, why Budget Living shouldn't have had to close: The magazine, by his calculations, was grossing $17 million a year, which is enough to keep even Maer Roshan happily publishing for a while. Impressive, yes? Actually no. Budget Living really did shut down yesterday, as both WWD and Keith Kelly report. Severance packages are still be determined, but staffers seem likely, at best, to be paid for another two weeks, till the end of the month. After that, well, one hopes they've been reading their magazine carefully.

We reported an hour or so ago on a rumor that Budget Living was set to shut its discount-loving doors. A flurry of recent email suggests the rumor was right. In the order they arrived:

The last news out of Budget Living magazine — the young "spend smart, live rich" title that won a general-excellence Ellie two years ago — was that founder Don Welsh was looking for a buyer. "Now is the time to sell," Welsh told Keith Kelly for his Dec. 16 Post column. "It needs a giant magazine company to be its home." Welsh said he'd find a buyer within 60 days.

No, no, it's a different one. And: Yes, yes, it must suck for her these days.

The latest news from celeb-mag-land is that Tamara Glenny, the former high-ranking YM editor who joined Bauer's Life & Style Weekly over the summer as executive editor, has just been canned from Bauer's Life & Style Weekly as executive editor. A spy on the Englewood Cliffs beat gives some inside color:

Time Inc.'s Guild local has done yeoman's work this week, compiling all sorts of information on the mag publisher's layoff plans to give a comprehensive picture of the cuts, at least among Guild-covered jobs. Here are the totals, from what we can decipher:

The entire editorial staff of the New York Press — that would be four people — resigned yesterday after management told them not to run the riot-inducing Danish Mohammed cartoons. The Observer's Politicker broke this news last night, reprinting the anguished (and not just a little self-righteous) email-cum-press release from the Press's boy editor, Harry Siegel.

Meanwhile, at NYU: