"The biggest media event in history," might well be shaping up into "the biggest circulation war for decades," according to a report from the Guardian, which highlights the extensive efforts by the British press regarding Olympics coverage.

Offices of the Mexican newspaper El Norte near Monterrey have been attacked three times in less than a month. In the most recent attack, on Sunday, armed and masked men broke into the offices and started a fire using gasoline, according to a report from The Telegraph.

Brazilian newspapers are reporting growth in average daily circulation as well as advertising revenue, according to data from the Circulation Verification Institute (IVC) and published on news.com.au.

Can journalism ever be too balanced? Linda Greenhouse certainly thinks so. In an article for Nieman Reports Greenhouse, a veteran Supreme Court reporter, argues that truth, and not “fairness” ought to be a reporter’s primary goal.

In Norway and Denmark, the healthy circulation levels of local news titles means that it’s not just national papers that are introducing paywalls. According to Journalism.co.uk, publishers are experimenting with a variety of subscription options to capitalise on the important role local news still plays in Scandinavian countries.

Twelve jobs will be lost at Condé Nast Media Group as the publishing company mergesprint and digital and urges magazine titles to cut their budgets. Amongst those leaving the company are Senior Vice President of Corporate Sales Thomas Hartman and Robert Silverstone, Senior Vice President of Finance. (WWD)

"Make awesome stuff now. Don’t wait your turn," and other practical advice for recent journalism school graduates from Ann Friedman, the former editor of GOOD Magazine, via Nieman Lab.

Armando Montano, a 22 year-old summer intern at AP in Mexico City, was discovered dead in an apartment building's elevator shaft on Saturday. The Washington Post reports.

The Guardian reports that the number of warnings over press behaviour issued by the Press Complaints Committee has increased, despite a dip attributed to the launch of the Leveson inquiry. Although some complaints were made by celebrities fearing press-intrusion, the majority were lodged by members of the public, “many of whom were grieving because of the death or illness of a child, partner or parent, or the aftermath of an affair.”

The Guardian correspondent in Athens, Jon Henley, reports that former journalists from Greece’s second-largest paper Eleftherotypia – which, due to lack of money, has only published two editions since December last year – are returning to work unpaid to put out a third special edition of the paper, which will be published the day before the country’s general election. Henley writes that this could well be the paper’s final edition, and notes that former Eleftherotypia journalists have not been paid since August 2011.

AFP writes that former British Prime Minister John Major has directly contradicted Rupert Murdoch’s assertion before the Leveson Inquiry that he had "never asked a prime minister for anything." John Major told the inquiry today that, during a dinner in 1997, Murdoch had demanded Major change his policy on Europe, reports AFP.