Morning report
* New ABC report names the top 25 consumer magazine for the first half of 2012. (AARP The Magazine is #1 in total paid circulation.) (Audit Bureau of Circulations) Pay for them, dammit!
* “Get a life,” U-T San Diego’s CEO tells reporter when asked about paper’s car museum and construction permits. (voiceofsandiego.com)
* Single-copy magazine sales are down 9.6% over the first half of 2011. (paidContent.org)
* You’ve been warned! “To the person who is stealing these papers, when I catch you I will call police.” (@EliseOnDeadline)
* Survey: 40.7% of newspaper editors say they spend more time monitoring other media than they did three years ago. (ebyline.biz)
* Mediabistro parent acquires Lost Remote, founded 13 years ago by Cory Bergman. (LostRemote.com)
* Eight in ten are following the Olympics on TV or digitally. (people-press.org)
* Olympics give “Today” show a big lift, just when it needed one. (New York Times)
* Mat Honan: How Apple and Amazon security flaws led to my epic hacking. (Wired.com)
* Chicago Tribune cuts back on its stage show series, which it once called a “new journalism platform.” (Time Out Chicago)
* Why Turner Broadcasting bought Bleacher Report. (AdAge.com)
* Another account of New York Observer editor and president’s departures. (Capital New York)
