• Legendary reporter Gay Talese has a surefire combination for success: never make deadlines, say "fuck you" to your editors, and publish a book containing your canned stories. [NYO]

• Former Marie Claire editor-in-chief Lesley Jane Seymour gets compared to Moses. We immediately think "Paltrow-Martin" not "Promised Land." [WWD]

• Drunk dialing is for David Gregory and Jessica Simpson. But the real cool kids with numbers in their names always opt to drunk-berry. [Media Mob]

• The Denver Post is now joining the long list of papers beginning to lay off their employees. But hey, if their employees leave voluntarily, they get a fun cash prize for it. [Denver Post]

• And this practically begs the question, "can journalists make money?" [WaPo]