Mediagazer: Despite Media Companies' Best Efforts, ‘TV Everywhere’ Is Nowhere (Shalini Ramachandran/Digits)

Christine Haughney / New York Times:

A Downsized Boston Globe Opens Its Space for Community Uses — BOSTON — Among the many changes that Christopher M. Mayer wanted to make when he became publisher of the Boston Globe in 2010 was to transform a particularly unattractive section of the newsroom.

Discussion: Media Nation, @pottsmark, @counternotions and @zimbalist

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Hail the independent directors of The Times for living up to their remit — I owe the independent national directors of The Times (INDs) a big apology. I called for their resignation 10 days ago, at the very moment when they were justifying their independent description.

Discussion: Media News, Media Week and Guardian

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

NI chief to hold meeting with Times directors over new editors — Mike Darcey to meet six directors after they failed to endorse Rupert Murdoch's choice to edit Times and Sunday Times — The chief executive of News International is to talk with the independent directors of the Times …

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Shalini Ramachandran / Digits:

Despite Media Companies' Best Efforts, ‘TV Everywhere’ Is Nowhere — People are streaming online video more than ever before but only 17% of pay TV subscribers have watched cable programming online using so-called “TV Everywhere” services, according to a new study.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Beet.TV

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Washington Post launches social trending feature — The Post Pulse feature gives 15 minute updates on the latest stories receiving ‘the most traction’ on social media — Copyright: dionhinchcliffe on Flickr. Some rights reserved. — The Washington Post has launched a new social trending feature …

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Katie Couric to Interview Manti Te'o — 1:42 p.m. | Updated Katie Couric has landed the first television interview with Manti Te'o, the Notre Dame football star who said he was tricked into believing first that he had a girlfriend and then that the girlfriend died of leukemia. The girlfriend never existed.

Discussion: Deadspin, Chickaboomer, @david_schwab, Reuters, Digital Spy, SBNation.com, Rolling Stone, TVLine and Forbes

Noam Cohen / New York Times:

How M.I.T. Ensnared a Hacker, Bucking a Freewheeling Culture — In the early days of 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology learned that it had an intruder. Worse, it believed the intruder had been there before. — Months earlier, the mysterious visitor had used …

Discussion: Media Nation, emptywheel and The Verge

Jennifer Epstein / Politico:

Condoleezza Rice joins CBS News as contributor — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined CBS News as a contributor, appearing Sunday on “Face the Nation” to launch her new gig. — Host Bob Schieffer made the announcement at the start of a roundtable discussion.

Discussion: Media Decoder, MiamiHerald.com, The Huffington Post and Chickaboomer

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

TMZ video backlash gathers strength — Advertising pulled and online petition reaches 200,000 after gossip website refused to take down video of man being shot — US gossip website TMZ is facing fresh criticism for refusing to take down a video of a man being shot dead in a brawl outside a Hollywood nightclub.

Discussion: RumorFix

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Leveson's chief inquisitor calls UK press ‘most unruly and irreverent in world’ — Robert Jay also dismissed ‘scaremongering’ concerns over statutory recognition of press regulator, during Singapore speech — Robert Jay QC has described the British press as “the most unruly and irreverent in the world” …

Discussion: @nthurlbeck

Leslie Kaufman / Media Decoder:

An App to Sift Through Books — How do you find out what books friends and family are reading and loving? — One answer is a conversation face to face — but that is so old-fashioned. Another is to join social media sites devoted to books, like Goodreads.com or Shelfari.com — but that takes time and commitment.

Discussion: paidContent

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

Vice Straddles the Line — As unlikely as it sounds, the future of publishing could be written, in part, inside a converted warehouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the unofficial capital of Hipster USA. That's where Vice Media is trying to strike the balance of maintaining its indie publishing cred …

Thanks:@joshsternberg