Party time: Magna, a unit of huge advertising conglomerate Interpublic, is forecasting that the recession-induced ad slump is over! Magna projects that ad spending will fall nearly 15% this year, but will start increasing again in...2011. So, almost over. Party time!

The New York Times Co. is selling WQXR, New York's only major classical music radio station, to Univision and public radio station WNYC for $45 million. All of the station's employees will have to re-apply for their jobs, and WQXR's signal is getting significantly weaker, and it's changing stations, and it now needs you to give, give, give to public radio, if you enjoy the classical music and such.

ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff returned to Iraq for the first time since he was nearly killed by a bomb there in 2006. Last night he was all set to do his triumphal report from there, but it had to be canceled, because of mighty sandstorms. God?

Carmen Saldana, the 23 year-old FIT student found murdered in her family's apartment in Queens last weekend, was working part time as an intern at Complex Magazine. Complex's Sherry Bitting tells us:

Carmen came to Complex in January as a fashion intern and made an immediate
and indelible mark on our team. She was a level-headed, balanced,
compassionate, and energetic young woman who was positive and professional
at all times. Even when focused on work, Carmen always had a smile for
anyone she spoke to.

We are deeply saddened by the news and send our sincere condolences to her
loved ones and family. She will be remembered fondly and missed terribly by
all of us.

Woodruff, who was 28 days into a stint as co-anchor of ABC's World News Tonight when a roadside bomb left him physically disfigured and in a coma for five weeks, is reporting this week from Iraq on the improvements in medical technology and safety equipment that has helped the military reduce casualties from injuries like the ones he suffered in 2006. Woodruff, traveling with Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had this to say about his trip:

Mr. Woodruff, who was not available for an interview on Monday, wrote on the Web site that he had deliberated with his colleagues and with the military about whether he should attempt this week's trip at all.

"I have wanted to ‘get back on the horse again' since my recovery," he wrote. "This will be a different horse, probably not as big, not as fast and without running outside the ‘wire,' " meaning that he would stay within military bases "without going out on the streets or battle zones" as he did in the past.

Woodruff's first report from Iraq will air Tuesday morning on Good Morning America.

TV Journalist Injured in Iraq Returns to War [New York Times]
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How is the internet fighting with the old media today? In many ways! A study found that "traditional media" typically beats blogs on news stories by about 2.5 hours, although "3.5 percent of story lines originated in the blogs and later made their way to traditional media." Although 96% of snide jokes about news items originate with blogs! And Twitter has an unbeatable edge when it comes to tools that allow J-school professors to tell fellow subway riders that Michael Jackson died. Internet traffic is also a leading excuse for canning writers. These facts brought to you by the New York Times—on the internet! What a crazy, mixed up world.

In an op-ed titled "Doing no favors for their gender," an old man named Richard Connor (pictured) writes that it's not just that Sarah Palin and WP publisher Katharine Weymouth fucked up—it's that they fucked things up for their kind: "Men make stupid decisions every day, but let's face it: For better or worse they still have the upper hand. Pressure still exists for minorities, and I include women in that group, to be better than everyone else. Yet they still have to - rightly or wrongly - prove themselves. Palin and Weymouth did otherwise last week. They set back the progress of others in their professions. Both need to leave the stage and return to the wilderness." Again, Richard Connor is an old man.

ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff is back reporting from Iraq for the first time since he was damn near killed there by an I.E.D. in 2006. He's one of the good guys.

The Harvard Business Review has put its vast business expertise to work—for itself! "A good example is the way we've recently realigned the editorial staff around 'beats'...We spent a lot of time team-building to make that happen," says the editor. "Beats"! Imagine that. Will Harvard ever stop totally revolutionizing things, for the better?

CNET adorablogger Natali Del Conte forgot her PIN.

Dennis Clark, executive producer of Ryan Seacrest's radio show, had a moment of gay panic.

Broadcasting and Cable's Alex Weprin steeled himself for an encounter with hunkiness.

Vanity Fair online editor Mike Hogan assiduously pursued Internet fame.

Wounded ABC newsman Bob Woodruff sought help from a Twitter veteran.

Did you witness the media elite tweet something indiscreet? Please email us your favorite tweets — or send us more Twitter usernames.

Welcome Visit [NYP]

I also want to recognize Bob Woodruff here. He is a — He himself was wounded, severely wounded, and went through the system, to a certain extent. And we welcome you back, and we're glad you're with us. And we would hope that any wounded soldier, any person in uniform would receive the kind of care and the ability to return to work, just like you have done. And so we're glad you're with us, Bob. Congratulations on the will to recover.

Woodruff Questions Bush Over Vets Care [ABC, via]

What Kit tells us:

The building's transparent exterior is meant to convey the idea of a free press and an open society. A mammoth rectangle frames the facade, suggesting a television or computer screen that provides what the museum calls a "window on the world." Visitors enter through a Great Hall of News, where they can see breaking stories on a giant digital "zipper" before setting out on a 1.5-mile path of displays and interactive kiosks. The building, which has seven floors, also contains 135 upscale apartments, Newseum shops and Wolfgang Puck's three-story restaurant, the Source.

• Time magazine's armored truck from the Balkans
  
• The laptop used by Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter murdered in Pakistan in 2002
  
• The vest that Bob Woodruff of ABC was wearing last year when he was wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq
  
• The cellphone that a Virginia Tech student used last month to capture a video of the campus massacre
  
• A pencil used by Mark H. Kellogg, a reporter killed at Little Bighorn with Custer in 1876
  
• The turquoise slippers worn by Ana Marie Cox when she wrote as Wonkette, the sassy Washington blogger

  There's also a display containing disgraced former Times reporter Jayson Blair's articles and a gallery:

  [D]evoted to journalistic ethics. It allows visitors to race one another to answer some basic yes-or-no questions on deadline. You are reporting on shoplifting and learn that your neighbor has been arrested, a potential conflict; should you tell your editor? (Yes, according to a Newseum panel of journalism experts.)

  We can hardly contain ourselves. You know, we don't get enough of the press celebrating itself with Pulitzers and ASMEs and other fake awards. We need the grandeur of a seven-story complex that lauds the dedication of our ink-stained (or pajama-bottomed) information gatherers. When this sucker opens, we're going to be first in line to see the exhibition containing R.W. Apple Jr.'s legendary expense reports. —balk

  A Museum for Artifacts of the News Media's Hunters and Gatherers [NYT]

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