Newsbriefs, 7/24: A Dangerous Woman, Up To A Point

• This Split Second in Murdochiana: Remember how everything was going according to plan, as far as Rupert Murdoch and Dow Jones was concerned? Well, meet Jane MacElree, a Bancroft with 15% of the Dow's voting shares, thought of as a swing vote up until this morning, when she came out against the takeover. Also: Chris Bancroft wore a funny hat! We may have to upgrade the Bancroft family from Noah Baumbach movie subjects to full-fledged Wes Anderson characters at this rate!
• What If I Said, "10-Book Deal" and "Potter"?: Calm down. It's not what you think. Martha Stewart has "signed a 10-book deal with her longtime publisher Clarkson Potter."
• Rather? I'd Rather not: Really. At this point, we sort of wish Dan Rather would just sort of work out his remaining feelings about Katie Couric and move on, already.
• In response, Steve Jobs to roll out Lumos feature: In the battle of buzz, Harry Potter lays the mad Avada Kedavra on the iPhone.
• Failure to launch: Elizabeth Spiers' Slate piece on TAM Linhas crashes, burns with readers. Naturally, Andrew Krucoff's got something snippy to say about it.
• We Really Sort of Love This: Poynter's "Chip On Your Shoulder" blog launches "Ask Chip" column--a total journo geek-out over the uses of the dash. More, more!