* Politico Magazine debuts. “We’ll be opinionated but never partisan, and we hope to bring you perspective, not more punditry,” says editor Susan Glasser. (politico.com)
* The Weather Channel is going to start paying closer attention to weather. (AP via Yahoo News)
* Snapchat says no-thanks to Facebook’s $3 billion all-cash offer. (wsj.com) | Earlier: Groupon rejects Google’s $6 billion offer. (It’s now valued at $7 billion, reader Todd Wallack notes.) (nytimes.com)
* Kurt Andersen: “I’ll bet anyone $3 that Snapchat is worth less than $3 billion 3 years from now.” (@KBAndersen)
* “I can’t believe there is a magazine called Girls and Corpses! I saw it on the newsstand next to Barbie magazine of all things!” (themorningnews.org)
* Claim: Piers Morgan’s toughness “is mostly cosmetic.” (newrepublic.com)
* Pew Research: “Pinterest, a social pin board for visual content, is hardly used for news at all.” (journalism.org) | I use Pinterest for news bloopers: (pinterest.com/jimromenesko)
* In its lengthy art museum scandal piece, Cleveland Scene claims Plain Dealer’s Steven Litt is “a reporter with a vested interest in covering the museum favorably.” (clevescene.com)
* Newspaper Guild of New York’s president and secretary-treasurer are narrowly re-elected. (nyguild.org)
* Ex-Reuters Digital chief Chrystia Freeland is grilled about sending media jobs to India. (canada.com)
* Fired Philadelphia Inquirer editor Bill Marimow testifies: “I’d wondered whether I’d made a mistake in taking the job” after publisher Bob Hall said he’d be keeping watch over him.
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* Lucky’s Kerry Washington cover is panned after being Instagrammed. (wwd.com)
* Les Brown, one of the first journalists to comprehensively cover television, dies at 84. (nytimes.com) | (variety.com)
* Judge sides with Monterey County Weekly in clergy sex-abuse documents case. (montereycountyweekly.com)
* Brooklyn hyperlocal editor: If you want to cover a community well, “you cannot be a visitor.” (streetfightmag.com)
* Bradford University student union bans UK tabloids because of their Page 3 topless models. (thetelegraphandargus.co.uk)
* University of Alaska Fairbanks professor accuses the student paper of sexual harassment. (collegemediamatters.com)
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