Nat Ives reports magazines’ digital circulation increased to 3.29 million in the second half of 2012 vs. 1.46 million in the year-earlier period. Still, digital remains only about 1% of magazines’ total paid and verified circulation.
* Katie Couric to co-host the news on “Good Morning America” next week. (New York Times)
* News Corp. considers launching a national cable sports network. (Wall Street Journal)
* Paywall down! WSJ.com is free today. (WSJ.com)
* Facebook adds permalinks to comments and makes other changes. (Facebook)
* Former Maxim and Blender editor Joe Levy is named Billboard editor-in-chief. (New York Post)
* Shit Gail Collins Says: Now a crossword puzzle. (Chicago Reader)
* What is an alt-weekly? asks Baltimore City Paper editor(CityPaper.com)
* Hundreds of reactions to NPR ombud’s column about sponsors. (NPR.org)
* Jeremy Lin has lunch with ESPN staffer who was fired over headline. (Washington Post) | The headline: (JimRomenesko.com)
* E.W. Scripps discloses it paid ex-newspaper division chief Mark Contreras $4.4 million in severance. (BizJournals.com)
