Mediagazer: Shutting the Drawer: What Happens When a Book Doesn't Sell? (Edan Lepucki/The Millions)

Adrian Chen / Gawker:

CNN Thinks All Tripolis Look the Same — According to this CNN screenshot (apparently from Monday), Libyan rebels are advancing on Tripoli, Lebanon. Wrong continent, guys! They all do sort of look the same, if you are a 4th grader trying to pass her geography pop quiz. — Let's give them a break.

Discussion: TVNewser and Mediaite

Colby Hall / Mediaite:

CNN's Sara Sidner Gets Grazed By Bullet Casings During Live Report In Tripoli — While reporting live from Tripoli and the fall of the Gaddafi regime, CNN's Sara Sidner was so close to the gunfire (celebratory or other) that she actually was grazed by a shell while reporting live on television.

Discussion: The Wire, Forbes and TVNewser

Tim Cuprisin / onmilwaukee.com:
OnMedia: The courage of CNN's Tripoli reporters

Discussion: The Wire and Big News Network.com

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

MediaNews Group Consolidates Eleven Bay Area Papers Into Two — California's Bay Area residents are a couple months away from losing many of their local newspapers, as the Bay Area News Group—a division of MediaNews Group—consolidates eleven newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, into just two: The Times and the East Bay Tribune.

Discussion: LA Observed and Future of Journalism

About 120 lose jobs in Bay Area News Group rebranding, streamlining — The existing Bay Area News Group (BANG) newspapers titles will continue to be published after the changes take effect on November 2, 2011, but under two consolidated mastheads. The Contra Costa Times, Valley Times …

Discussion: Dublin Patch

Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:

Carlos Slim Adds to Stake in Times Company — Carlos Slim Helú, the Mexican billionaire who is by some accounts the world's richest man, has added to his holdings in The New York Times Company. — In a regulatory filing Monday, Mr. Slim and members of his family …

Bloomberg:

Billionaire Slim Boosts Stakes in NYT as Market Slumps — Mexican Tycoon Pays $6.83 to $7.09 for 553,000 Times Co. Shares — Billionaire Carlos Slim spent $8.8 million to boost his stakes in Saks, Inc. and The New York Times Co., adding to his biggest U.S. holdings as the stock market slumped last week.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Poynter, MediaPost, New York Magazine, On Media's Blog and FishbowlNY

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Does StumbleUpon Really Drive More Traffic Than Facebook? — StumbleUpon, the social discovery service, has about 15 million users. Is it possible it could be directing more traffic to outside websites than Facebook, which has more than 700 million? — That's what StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp claims.

Discussion: Click Here Blog

What you need to know about StumbleUpon, the Web's newly-hot referral source — The social-powered Web browsing service StumbleUpon now claims to drive more than half of all social media referral traffic in the U.S., according to new data from StatCounter. — Is it true?

Discussion: Marketing Pilgrim

Leslie Horn / PC Magazine:

Report: As Tablets Market Grows, Paper Media Will Have Steep Decline — As print goes increasingly digital, many wonder if the growth of the tablet and e-reader space mean the death of traditional paper media. A new report from RISI, a company that monitors the paper industry, says it doesn't look good for print.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Publishing Executive News, Noted and BtoB Magazine

Joanne Ostrow / Denver Post:

Al Jazeera is reliable and often ahead of the curve in its coverage of Libya — Libyans watch an Al Jazeera channel at freedom square in Benghazi, Libya. The news network's coverage has been lauded as reliable and often ahead of the curve. (Gianluigi Guercia, AFP/Getty Images )

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Mediaite

Edan Lepucki / The Millions:

Shutting the Drawer: What Happens When a Book Doesn't Sell? — 1. — In May, after my novel manuscript had been read and rejected by a healthy number of editors, my husband rewrote my author bio. It read as follows: … As an American woman living in an uncool neighborhood in Los Angeles, I thought this hilarious.

Erik Wemple:

Washington, D.C., earthquake: The coverage, assessed — A frenzied roundup of D.C. earthquake coverage, featuring no particular order or logic: — Huffington Post, as per usual, masters the great teaser: QUAKE! Media goes nuts. The coverage, delivered in SEO splendor (Washington …

Discussion: Washington Post, DCist and TBD All News

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Time Inc. Launches Its First Four Magazines On Nook Color — Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is expanding its magazines' presence on the Nook Newsstand. Starting today, print subscribers to Fortune, People, Sports Illustrated, and Time will be able to read the Nook editions of those magazines for free …

Discussion: Folio, Business Wire, FishbowlNY, CNET News and mediabistro.com

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Why the MP3Tunes Case Is a Big Deal You Won't Notice — Yesterday, a U.S. District Court Judge handed down a decision which slapped around a big music label and put an entrepreneur on the hook for what could be a very big legal bill. — What does that mean for the rest of us?

Discussion: CNN, Michael's Minute, Softpedia News and VentureBeat

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

San Diego Union-Tribune passes on NYT's Issa story, readers react — The New York Times' Eric Lichblau wrote last week “most wealthy members of Congress push their financial activities to the side, with many even placing them in blind trusts to avoid appearances of conflicts of interest …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, SignOnSanDiego.com and On Media's Blog