Mediagazer: Demi Moore Lands $2 Million For Book (Mike Fleming/Deadline.com)

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Vogue Publisher Florio Leaving Conde Nast — Tom Florio, the long-time publisher of Vogue, is leaving Conde Nast at the end of the month, Mr. Florio said Thursday. — Mr. Florio said in an interview that he's been talking to Conde Nast Chief Executive Chuck Townsend for some time about leaving …

Discussion: WWD, Romenesko, FishbowlNY, MinOnline, New York Observer, The Huffington Post, Styleite and New York Magazine

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Sorry: Conde Nast Won't Replace Exiting Vogue Group Publisher — Tom Florio's Plum Job Atop Vogue, Other Titles Won't Be Filled — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — For a moment after Conde Nast told staff that Vogue group publisher Tom Florio was leaving at the end of the month …

Discussion: paidContent, Crain's New York Business and The Wrap

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

A Google Paid Content System For Publishers May Be Coming By Year-End — Updated: Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which had hinted for nearly a year now that it was working on building some sort of paid content system for publishers, is reportedly set to launch such a system by year-end.

Discussion: The Next Web and Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »

Rick Klau / tins:

Techdirt saves journalism - Harper's Magazine — Last night I was lucky to be invited to join a group of super smart people at an event hosted by Techdirt (and sponsored by Google). The event was provocatively (and with tongue planted firmly in cheek) titled “Techdirt Saves* Journalism” …

Guardian:

Sky Sports News to go behind paywall in battle with Freeview — Subscription model seen as best bet over long term, while analysts say Sky may load rival with poor content — News Corporation is to put another of its services behind a paywall as it emerged yesterday that Sky Sports News is to be pulled from Freeview.

Alexia Tsotsis / The Snitch:

YouTube Explains Top Secret ‘News Experiment’ to Local Media, But Doesn't Really — Sometimes this new media transition thing can be so, how you say, awkward. — According to SFAppeal blogger Eve Batey, Google-owned video aggregator YouTube is up to some hush hush citizen journalism project here in our very own San Francisco.

Discussion: MediaMemo and HyperlocalBlogger

Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:

WSJ editor praises departing mag editor Gaudoin — “Tina [Gaudoin] and the team have created a magazine that has already become an important franchise for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones,” writes WSJ managing editor Robert Thomson. He adds this thinly disguised swipe at NYT's T magazine …

Discussion: New York Magazine and New York Observer

Discussion: Guardian and Gawker

WordPress:

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” — Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy …

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog, PC World, TechCrunch, Mashable!, The Next Web and WordPress Publisher Blog, more at Techmeme »

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

ABC News Pulls Out Checkbook for Van Der Sloot Photos; Gets Exclusive Interview — Tomorrow night, ABC News will present a special edition of “20/20,” featuring an exclusive interview with Melony Granadillo, the ex-girlfriend of Joran van der Sloot. Van der Sloot is the alleged killer of a Peruvian woman …

Discussion: Gawker, Mediaite and ABCNEWS

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

5 Strategies for Successful News Organization-University Partnerships — The New York Times, The Bay Citizen and Next Door Media have recently partnered with universities in hopes that students can help them expand their hyperlocal coverage, engage new audiences and experiment with different business models.

Discussion: Editors Weblog and Center for Sustainable …

Guardian:

Largesse and parsimony at the News International summer party — Media executives were out in force at News International's summer party last night, where Mark Thompson rubbed shoulders with Lord Browne, Dawn Airey chatted to Mariella Frostrup and Channel 4's low-key CEO David Abrahams …

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Huffington Post Buys Adaptive Semantics To Keep Up With 100,000 Comments A Day — The Huffington Post has acquired its first company in a small cash deal, and it is not another blog or media site, but a pure technology startup called Adaptive Semantics. The two-person startup provides …

Discussion: MediaPost, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent, Audience Development, FishbowlNY, Mediaweek, Journalism.co.uk, WebNewser, Webmetricsguru and Inventor Spot

Discussion: Fast Company

Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:

Demi Moore Lands $2 Million For Book — Demi Moore will write her book for HarperCollins. While she hasn't been burning it up with movie roles like she used to, her reps at Janklow-Nesbit are closing a deal worth $2 million,. The book will be edited by Jennifer Barth, backstopped by publisher Jonathan Burnham.

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Ustream's Live Mobilizer Gives Bands And Brands Live Streaming iPhone Apps — Popular live video platform Ustream is adding a new product to its repertoire today: an iPhone application platform called Ustream Live Mobilizer that offers brands, celebrities, and bands a customizable iPhone application …

Tony Ortega / Runnin' Scared:

Deal Between Gothamist and Rainbow Media is Officially Dead — We don't know whether Knicks and Cablevision owner James Dolan will be writing a new blues song about this, but we've learned here at the Voice that what was earlier just a rumor is now definitely true …

Discussion: Gawker, Mediaite, New York Times and New York Observer

Mike Reynolds / Multichannel News:

Multiplatform Usage Soars Around World Cup: ESPN XP Research — Those Watching TV, Using Three Other Platforms, Spent Over 5 Hours Daily WIth FIFA Tourney — Futbol fans are cottoning to ESPN's myriad platforms presenting 2010 World Cup matches and fare.

Discussion: NewTeeVee and MediaMemo

Joe Mandese / MediaPost:

MediaDailyNews: WPP Digital Acquires Stake In Real-Time TV Analytics Firm — WPP Digital Acquires Stake In Real-Time TV Analytics Firm — Madison Avenue giant WPP Group has made another strategic investment in an advanced TV industry developer, acquiring a stake in Ace Metrix …

Brent Lang / The Wrap:

EXCLUSIVE: Battle Raging Over Age Listings on IMDb — By listing birth dates, industry workers say the popular movie database leads to age discrimination — One of the biggest movie sites in the world, IMDb.com, is facing a hornet's nest of controversy over its policy of publishing the ages …

Discussion: /Film and Company Town

Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

Squeals, Buzz and Barcodes as Magazine Types Gather for Technology Show and Tell — Adobe senior business development manager Gary Cossimini had 35 minutes yesterday to show off his company's New York Times reader at the Magazine Publishers of America technology conference …

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Bloomberg TV names new anchor — Bloomberg L.P. announced that Phillip Yin has joined the Bloomberg Television network as an anchor and reporter. — Yin will cover Asia Pacific markets, economic and financial news for Bloomberg Television's 24-hour global business news network …

Discussion: Inside Cable News and DealBook

Detroit Free Press:

What's credible and what's not? — Look. An institute of higher learning already should know there is no such thing as a single “media” anymore. You cannot put credible newspapers or television stations in the same sentence as tweeters. You cannot lump legit Internet posts with a blog that begins in some guy's basement.

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Cooper Becomes Loud Voice for Gulf Residents — “There aren't any small people here,” the CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said from Louisiana on his prime-time program Wednesday night, emphatically rejecting the remarks by BP's chairman that the oil company cares “about the small people.”

James Robinson / Guardian:

UK and US see heaviest newspaper circulation declines — UK circulation fall of 25% since 2007 is second only to the US where the decline was 30%, according to OECD report — UK newspapers have suffered the most dramatic circulation declines of any country outside America since 2007 …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Shaping the Future …, The Wire, Media Decoder, BizReport, Journalism.co.uk and Press Gazette

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

Capital New York: New York's Newest Media Launch is ALIVE! Kinda. (UPDATED) — Beloved New York Observer editors Tom McGeveran and Josh Benson left the paper late last year to go work on a secret, hush-hush project. This was after Jared Kushner — the son of a disgraced Jersey real-estate scion …

Discussion: Gawker and New York Magazine