· Jann Wenner and John Warnock pump 800K into Salon. In addition, Salon has hired Soho-House-hopping former presidential aide Sidney Blumenthal as a columnist. [David Carr]
· MSNBC's Ashleigh Banfield's contract expires today. [Michael Starr]
· The Michael Jackson trial media circus: tacky tacky tacky. [Peter Johnson]
· WSJ's Lawrence Ingrassia to be the new biz editor at the NYT. [Reuters]