* Editor: “I didn’t anticipate how much readers would hate the idea” of paying for Huffington Post’s iPad magazine. (Second item.) (nypost.com)
* NYT’s David Pogue gets his iPhone back five hours after tweeting about its disappearance. (nytimes.com)
* Romney aide who told the press to “kiss my ass” is taking some time off. (abcnews.com)
* Brides magazine goes from monthly to bimonthly in 2013. (wwd.com)
* Big Foot?? TV critic wonders whether Animal Planet has run out of real animals to profile. (washingtonpost.com)
* Twitter outrage over commercial aired on NBC after Gabby Douglas’s gold medal win. (buzzfeed.com)
* Check out the Des Moines Register’s Douglas “Gold Star” sports front. (copydesk.org)
* NYT Magazine culture editor Adam Sternbergh sells his first novel. (6th Floor blog)
* Secretive Minnesota private equity firm expected to gain control of the Star Tribune. (MinnPost.com)
* Gerald Gold, editor of NYT’s Pentagon Papers, dies at 85. (nytimes.com)
* Granderson: NABJ’s refusal to join Unity makes the group look intolerant. (nytimes.com)
* Catching up with former Orlando Sentinel columnist Bob Morris. (newspaperalum.com)
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