• NYT Boldface Names scribe Campbell Robertson takes a holiday from social hob nobbing to – gasp! – do some actual reporting. Please, don't expect any of that coming from this space anytime soon.

• With Hurricane Katrina's exposure of government misconduct, Brian Williams promises the media is going to get back to actually reporting hard news, though they'll have to look back a few decades to remember how to do that.

• From CNN to Details, to Esquire and to Maxim, Anderson Cooper now lands in the New York Times, but only because he cries on camera.

• Miami Herald columnist Jim DeFede, who illegally recorded politico Arthur Teele just before he killed himself in the newspaper's lobby, will not be charged with any crime.

• Yahoo is adopting its role of media company (Wall Street must be cheering) with the hiring of Kevin Sites to report on three dozen war zones over the next year.

• We hear mildly disgraced former amNew York editor Alex Storozynski has found new work as the city editor of the New York Sun.

• Penthouse raised $48 million in stocks in bonds with hopes of launching a pay TV network to compete with Playboy's. Whatever, more porn is always good news.

• New Disney chief Bob Iger is quietly lobbying Comcast to help close the gap on "windowing," or the interval between a film's theatrical release and its DVD and small screen appearances.

• Self-proclaimed "world's first supermodel" Janice Dickinson is taking her dirty mouth from the small screen to the mirrored walls of Equinox, throwing around insults and treating other sweaty bodies to a locker room meltdown. Janice, of course, says she gets along nicely with everyone there

• Fired Miami Herald columnist Jim DeFede, who illegally taped a phone call with counselman and suicide victim Arthur Teele, claims his former employer initially said it would defend him before pulling a 180 and ejecting him.

• It's not exactly a book deal, but Mischa Barton ex Brandon Davis landed a fictional starring role in Melissa de la Cruz's new book The Au Pairs Skinny-Dipping.

• News Corp. execs are trying to reassure MySpace users that its recent acquisition will in no way affect normal use of the site. Or, as president and co-founder Tom Anderson said, he's "not going to let things suck."

• The New York Times is looking at a reopened libel case from Steven Hatfill, who sued the paper in claiming columnists unjustly linked him to 2001's anthrax mailings.

• It's time to vote for the ladies of Conde Nast.

• American Idol casting begins August 18, so start packing your sleeping bags and find out when producers will be in your city.

Now we know of plenty of ways to cause a scene at a publication, whether it's having your sources exposed as fraudulent or having your white mink sprayed with red paint by some PETA activists. Shooting yourself in the head, however, never really occurred to us.

Unfortunately, it did for Miami Commissioner Art Teele, who walked into the lobby of the Miami Harold yesterday afternoon and put a bullet in his head, but not before he dropped of a note intended for columnist Jim DeFede.

It took a couple hours for Teele to actually die, which he did at the hospital with his wife Stephanie at his side. And just two hours after he passed, DeFede got the pink slip. Apparently he taped a phone call with Teele without the commissioner's permission, a fact DeFede admitted to his bosses without their prior knowledge of it, he claims.

Which brings yesterday's Miami Herald death toll to two.