Mediagazer: NI chief to hold meeting with Times directors over new editors (Lisa O'Carroll/Guardian)

9:40 AM ET, January 21, 2013

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Newspapers With Extra Space Look for Boarders — 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. — Mr. Mayer wanted to fill in what he called …

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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 …

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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.

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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 …

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.

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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.

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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.

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Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:

Interview - HuffPo CEO Jimmy Maymann: 'We don't see traditional online ads as the future' — In the face of stagnant growth in traditional advertising, digital publishers are looking to sponsored content as an alternative route, something Buzzfeed has been doing well, and The Atlantic has been doing less well recently.

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of the body shop — We can look at the first 15 years or so of newspapers on the web as a slow-motion car wreck: agonizing to live through, fascinating to watch. — As we pull the pieces apart, we find one key culprit: misalignment. Now, in the age of paywalls, membership …

Felix Salmon:

Are annotations the new comments? — I'm in Munich, for the DLD conference, where Ben Horowitz took the opportunity to introduce the Rap Genius guys to the European digital-media crowd. But it's actually Horowitz's partner, Marc Andreessen, who has the best explanation of what the investment is all about:

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 …

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Why online book discovery is broken (and how to fix it) — Figuring out how to get their books discovered online isn't a new problem for publishers, but it's one that is becoming more pressing as channels and competition proliferate. New research shows that frequent book buyers visit sites …