* How will Steven Levy‘s move to Medium affect Wired? “Magazines like Wired, believe me, do not depend on one person,” he says. (digiday.com)
* Keep in mind when you watch and read this: ESPN executive editor John Walsh (left) “doesn’t tolerate boozy behavior from his employees.” At the Wilshire Hotel restaurant, “witnesses also said Walsh was giving out more than cards. He gave his hotel-room number to a woman at the ex-ESPNers’ table. The woman happened to be [Jay] Mariotti‘s date.” (deadspin.com) | Mariotti: “I’m amused to be part of this story.” (sportstalkflorida.com)
* Bill Keller on The Marshall Project fundraising: “It’s a novel experience to go in and ask people to invest a large sum of their own money in you.” (capitalnewyork.com) | The site launches in the fall. (capitalnewyork.com)
* Jim Brady says the goal of his new site, brother.ly, is “to help Philadelphia become a better city. We want to give people the tools and connections to help make that happen.” (usatoday.com)
* Scrapbooking was a 19th-century solution to media overload. (smithsonianmag.com)
* A warm welcome to new Star Tribune owner Glen Taylor from the paper’s editorial board. (startribune.com)
* The executive editor of Gannett’s Appleton (WI) Post-Crescent is changing careers. Dan Flannery writes in his farewell column: “Many, many days have been great. Some days have been far less than that. No different than your life. (postcrescent.com)
* Ann Coulter is one of the world’s most accomplished trolls. (theweek.com)
* The Portland Press Herald is running a serial in 29 chapters – “the kind of project newspapers don’t do anymore,” says its managing editor. Reporter Colin Woodard did more than 250 hours of interviews with about 70 sources. (pressherald.com)
* Salt Lake Tribune’s deal with Deseret News was done to save the Tribune, says Digital First CEO John Paton. “There are no plans to cease publication of the Tribune,” he adds. (deseretnews.com)
* Salt Lake Tribune can no longer afford to run New York Times columnists. (washingtonpost.com)
* JOBS: Blog about arts and culture for a weekly … or cover politics and government in California. (Romenesko Jobs)
* Mediabistro takes a tour of Huffington Post’s Washington bureau. (Spotted: Fresh fruit, Doritos, Starbucks coffee and other treats.) (mediabistro.com)
* I loved “The Lazlo Letters,” too. (medium.com)
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