Update: a reader notes that what I took for the Herald's admission that few sex offenders drive ice-cream trucks was actually the Herald marveling at the dearth of laws preventing popsicle-peddling pervs. (Take that, Laurel Sweet!) The original post follows:

Today in the scrappy tabloid, reporter Laurel Sweet marvels at the dearth of sex offenders driving ice-cream trucks, while simultaneously raising the spooky spectre of sex offenders driving ice cream trucks.

Both NECN and WGBH make the list. NECN won in the investigative-reporting category, large market, for The Forgotten Fire, a documentary on a fatal 2000 Newton blaze. WGBH, meanwhile, took top news-documentary honors (also large market, natch), for Boogie Man, its bio of legendary GOP operative Lee Atwater.

Kudos to both.

Writes a commenter of my defense of the NYT's/Wikipedia's handling of the David Rohde situation:

I'd be more understanding if it wasn't for the NYT double-standard. When it comes to releasing information about our secret program to track terrorists finances, they have no qualms about publishing that info, in essence working against America's safety.

Richard Perez-Pena reports today that his employer, the New York Times, sought and received the cooperation of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales as it worked to conceal reporter David Rohde's November 2008 kidnapping. [UPDATE: I originally wrote that the New York Times had "successfully pressured" Wales to delete reports of Rohde's kidnapping, but Wales objected that the term "pressured" was misleading.

Universal Hub reports that today's Boston Herald cover--featuring Michael Jackson's death, natch--has become the subject of in-person protest:

Just got word of a protest at 1 Herald Square at 4 over the Herald's "FADE TO BLACKO" cover today. Protesers say it was racist and offensive to Boston's black community: "Michael Jackson was an icon and should be respected!"

Like Dan Kennedy, I'm curious about what "incorrect information" today's much-discussed Times Co. memo is supposed to correct. (Disclosure: my recent comments to NPR's On the Media may be involved, though if they are, I'd dispute said involvement.)

But as a commenter at Gawker notes, the memo--from Times Co.

My first thought, when I heard about the tentative agreement struck by management and the Boston Newspaper Guild last night, was that Guild head Dan Totten must be patting himself on the back right now. After all, Totten's non-endorsement of the contract proposal rejected by the Guild last month was predicated on the assumption that he could get a better offer from the Times Co

Just received a rather terse email from Boston editor James Burnett:

Dear media colleagues, ace freelancers, PR specialists, and assorted professional acquaintances I've had the pleasure of meeting during the past seven years:

Today is my last day as editor of Boston magazine, and, as is usually the case with these things, also the last at this email address.

Beat the Press blogger Ralph Ranalli notes an interesting contradiction regarding the ongoing Times Co.-Boston Newspaper Guild negotiations:

My question is this: Since the imposition of the 23 percent wage cut was based on the Times claim of a bargaining "impasse," how Times officials be participating in marathon bargaining sessions yet asserting an impasse at the same time? Someone help me with this.

At the end of May, Globe metro editor Brian McGrory told his staff that metro political editor Chris Rowland was leaving to take an editing job in Bloomberg's Boston office. But now it turns out that Roland--who's been replaced as metro political editor by Scott Helman--won't be leaving the Globe after all; instead, he's going to Washington to fill the DC bureau chief position recently vacated by Peter Canellos.

While I'm not the world's biggest Boston.com fan, I think the site is pretty good, getting better, and occasionally brilliant.

Douglas McIntyre of Wall Street 24/7 doesn't exactly agree. In fact, McIntyre--the man who presciently predicted the Globe's near-closure back in March--gives Boston.com a D. Some of his gripes (paragraph breaks added):