Robert Allbritton, the publisher of Politico, has purchased Capital New York, the site founded by former New York Observer editors Tom McGeveran and Josh Benson. Allbritton plans "to do in New York what we did in Washington with POLITICO." Or even, hopefully, something better.

• Magazine circulation for the second half of 2006? Not so good. The big winners were the celebrity weeklies and Men's Health, which may have found a winning strategy in sticking Dave Zinczenko on the "Today Show" every goddamn day. The big losers? Everyone else, particularly Marie Claire, some copies of which reportedly returned themselves. [WWD]

• Remeber The Politico, that Allbritton politics website thing that hired away pretty much every decent political print reporter? It's live. [The Politico]
  

• What with everyone and their assistant editor decamping to that Allbritton online venture, the Times takes a closer look. And, at a quarter of a million dollars going to the two top slots, who wouldn't jump? [NYT]
  

• Here come the layoffs at the Philadelphia Inquirer. [NYT]