Consumer and business-to-business media companies focused on pot are launching and trading hands at a steady clip. In the latest example, PotGuide.com announced the acquisition of KindReviews from Shift Cannabis Co.

Newspapers' total online audience is not only bigger than ever, it's growing at about twice the rate of the Internet overall, according to the latest figures from the Newspaper Association of America.

One of the world's biggest publishers is blocking online access to Europe's biggest tabloid for visitors who have enabled ad-blocking software on their devices. Axel Springer is lowering the boom on ad blockers that are trying to see content from 'Bild,' a staple of gossip and celebrity media with a print circulation of 2.5 million.

It's the end of an era -- and the beginning of a new one -- as Playboy, the world's best-known girlie magazine, announced it is dropping nudity from its print edition, having already phased out naked pictures on its digital properties

Bauer Xcel, the digital arm of global publisher Bauer Media, hopes to build a billion-dollar business in online transactions spanning verticals including travel, finance, health, gaming and e-commerce.

For what appears to be the first time ever, brain surgery will be broadcast live on TV courtesy of the National Geographic Channel and Mental Floss, which are joining forces with Leftfield Pictures to produce "Brain Surgery Live with Mental Floss."

Nothing is simple in the age of platforms. With each new partnership, concerns mount that publishers are also ceding control over their business. The latest contender to enter the ring is Google, which unveiled its new AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) initiative to dramatically decrease the load times for Web content on mobile devices.

OpenGate Capital is selling TVGM Holdings, which owns both TV Guide Magazine and TVInsider.com, to NTVB Media, which publishes TV Weekly, among a number of other cable TV and satellite TV publications.

An array of big publishers are taking their cue from Nescafe and celebrating the moments of our lives with Twitter's new, curated news feature, "Moments," which launched this week. "Moments" - not to be confused with the Facebook feature of the same name - is intended to make Twitter more accessible to casual users by compiling tweets about high profile, ongoing events.

The NYT's top editor first noted that the company's digital-only subscriber base recently passed the 1 million mark, while its combined print-and-digital subscribers now number 1.1 million. That means that the NYT currently has more subscribers than at any point in its history.