Mediagazer: Ex-Stalybridge and Hyde MP James Purnell lands top BBC role (Tom Brooks-Pollock/Manchester Evening …)

8:00 AM ET, February 14, 2013

Top News:

Incoming BBC Boss Unveils First Personnel Decisions — UPDATED: Tony Hall expands Tim Davie's role as head of BBC Worldwide and names BBC News director Helen Boaden as head of BBC Radio. — Incoming BBC boss Tony Hall has made first major personnel decisions.

Discussion: Deadline.com, Guardian, Guardian, Agence France Presse, @benfenton and C21Media

Press Association / Huffington Post UK:

Helen Boaden, BBC Executive During Jimmy Savile Scandal, Given Job As Head Of Radio Networks — Helen Boaden, the executive in charge of BBC News when the Jimmy Savile controversy erupted, is to move to a new role heading the corporation's radio networks. And former culture secretary James Purnell …

Discussion: standard.co.uk, The Independent, @joshhalliday, @bbcjamescook, Digital Spy, Radio Today with RCS and BBC

Tom Brooks-Pollock / Manchester Evening News:

Ex-Stalybridge and Hyde MP James Purnell lands top BBC role — Mr Purnell - culture secretary in the last government - will become director of strategy and digital, reporting to new director-general Tony Hall. Former Stalybridge and Hyde MP James Purnell has landed a top job at the BBC worth £295,000 per year.

Discussion: Telegraph, Financial Times, Digital TV Europe and The Stage

Guardian:

Helen Boaden's memo to BBC staff — Outgoing director of news thanks her team before she moves over to take over top radio role — Today Tony Hall has announced the shape of his new top team and as you will know, I am moving to become director of radio at Easter. I confess that it is a bitter sweet moment for me.

Discussion: Press Gazette

Fortune:

Time Warner in talks to part ways with Time Inc. — FORTUNE — Media giant Time Warner has begun discussions to separate itself from Time Inc., its $3.4 billion (in annual revenue) publishing division, according to three people familiar with the matter. A serious buyer is in talks with the company, one of the sources says.

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Time Warner Shopping Time Inc. Likely Price Tag? Try $2.5 Billion — Time Inc., America's biggest magazine publisher, is for sale — sort of. Fortune reports that parent Time Warner is in talks with a “serious buyer” to sell most of its periodicals — and who better to know than Fortune, being one of those periodicals?

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines, AdAge and B&C

Wall Street Journal:
Time, Meredith Explore Magazine-Spinoff Deal

Discussion: FishbowlNY and @peterlauria3

Simone Foxman / Quartz:
Why does Time Warner want to get rid of its most profitable magazine?

Discussion: Fortune and Deadline.com

Knight Foundation:

Knight Foundation regrets paying Lehrer speaking fee — On Tuesday, the Knight Foundation paid Jonah Lehrer to speak at a community foundation conference. In retrospect, as a foundation that has long stood for quality journalism, paying a speaker's fee was inappropriate.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and The Huffington Post

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

It Sure Doesn't Sound Like Jonah Lehrer Is Donating That $20K Speaking Fee To Charity — Jonah Lehrer's appearance at a Knight Foundation event Tuesday was supposed to be the first step in a rehabilitation culminating in his return to the welcoming arms of the journalism profession.

Discussion: Poynter, New York Magazine, International Business Times and Boing Boing

Jonah Lehrer:
My Apology — I'd like to begin by thanking the Knight Foundation …

Discussion: @rsingel, @rubinafillion, @damiengwalter, @kbandersen, @eugenephoto, @nedraggett, @mattbuchanan, @janchip, @jonahlehrer and Poynter

Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Jonah Lehrer falls into familiar pattern, fails to face his reckoning

Discussion: lamag.com, @stevebuttry, ArtsBeat, The Atlantic Wire, The Week and Knight Foundation

Felix Salmon:

Blogonomics, Maria Popova edition — Back in May, Kickstarter looked as though it was moving upmarket. Following Bob Lefsetz's lead, I said that “while Kickstarter was originally embraced by the undiscovered and impecunious, its greatest potential, in the music industry …

Discussion: @profjeffjarvis, @niubi, @maoxian and @sdkstl

Kelly Faircloth / Betabeat:
Maybe Don't Talk S**t About Ads If You Make Money On Affiliate Links [Updated]

Discussion: On Advertising, @betabeat, @nexttechblog, @mattbuchanan, Melville House Books, @sdkstl, Get Off My Internets and @felixsalmon

Martin Peretz / Wall Street Journal:

The New New Republic — I don't recognize the magazine I used to own. We were liberal but not narrowly partisan. — Like many readers of the New Republic, I didn't at first recognize the most recent issue of the magazine. The stark white cover was unlike anything the New Republic ran during my 35 years as the owner.

Discussion: Politico, @adamgoldmanap, @el_bhask, @nbj914, @jackshafer and @mlcalderone

Tom Pakinkis / Music Week:

Rightsholders should be paid for online radio plays, says Aussie court — Rightsholders should be paid additional fees for plays via online simulcasts - where a radio station is broadcast via the internet as well as on the airwaves, Australia's Federal Court has ruled.

Discussion: Billboard, Home theMusic.com.au, Computerworld News …, radioinfo and The Music Network

Press Gazette:

Six former News of the World journalists arrested in phone-hacking probe are named — The six former News of the World journalists arrested today in a new police hacking probe have been named — According to Press Association they are understood to be Jules Stenson, Matt Nixson, Rav Singh …

Discussion: @bbcbreaking, @skymartinbrunt, @kevin_maguire, @dannyshawbbc, The Huffington Post, UK News and Opinion, Sky News, BBC and TheJournal.ie

Jennifer Booton / Fox Business:

Thomson Reuters To Slash 2,500 Jobs, 4% of Workforce — Thomson Reuters (TRI) plans to cut 2,500 jobs this year, or 4% of its global workforce, as it continues to axe costs as part of a larger overhaul. — The company said on Wednesday that it expects to spend about $100 million on severance costs …

Discussion: Reuters, Agence France Presse, Thomson Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The Dividend Daily and Talking Biz News