Richard Lawson left Gawker to rejoin his former editor there, Gabriel Snyder, at the Atlantic Wire. Mr. Lawson did so with meaningfully less exegesis than some of his predecessors. [Gawker]
The Daily made it official with another scholar of reality tv, Rich Juzwiak, aka FourFour. “[T]he transition from my brief month and a half of doing freelance has been a little tough,” he wrote on his blog. “I haven’t even watched ANTM yet this week (although that’s because I was on Neil Strauss’ new Sirius show last night, which was…an experience, for sure).” [Fishbowl;FourFour]
Playboy will pay between $750,000 and $1 m. for a nude spread of Lindsay Lohan. [TMZ]
The News International investigation does not disappoint. The lastest is: Police found a secret phone hidden in the News of the World offices that was used to conduct hacking on an “industrial scale” by a group of executive editors who operated like an “IRA cell.” The phone is known as “The Hub.” [Independent]
Former Current TV VP Chloe Sladden is helping Twitter figure out how to make money off TV. Does Current TV know how to make money of TV? [NY Times]
Lots of attrition at Martha Stewart Omnimedia. [WWD]
