Nik Deogun, The Wall Street Journal's deputy managing editor and international editor, is leaving for CNBC, where he will become managing editor. CNBC's current managing editor, Tyler Mathiesen, will become a co-anchor on the midday CNBC program "Power Lunch," as well as vice president for strategic editorial initiatives. Rebecca Blumenthal, now at WSJ.com, will replace Deogun.

Gannett Co. shares climbed Monday after an analyst at The Benchmark Co. upgraded the stock, reports AP. Gannett shares rose 71 cents, or 5.4 percent, to $13.87. The analyst Edward Atorino also raised his rating to "Buy." The upgrade was given after Gannett took measures to cut costs by restructuring newspaper operations. It consolidated its printing operations and cut full-time employees by 24% this year. The company also plans to centralize its advertising production in two centers by 2011.

Online tecnology firm WorldNow has renewed its content agreement with Cox Media Group Digital to provide Cox's 15 stations with its video technology platform. WorldNow provides video as well as content and revenue solutions for dozens of station Web sites nationwide, including Raycom and Gray TV groups. WorldNow executive vice president sales and distribution Craig Smith says it is "exciting to see the innovative ways that the Cox stations utilize our video platform and the revenue growth that aligns" with it.

About four months after taking over management of JCK magazine, Reed Exhibitions has licensed the rights to publish the jewelry title to Conde Nast's Fairchild Publications. The magazine will be managed by Fairchild's Women's Wear Daily division and will be relaunched as WWD/JCK. Fairchild will assume all of JCK's advertising and subscription commitments; Reed Exhibitions will retain the rights to and ownership of the JCK brand. Reed Exhibitions took over publishing JCK in August from sister division Reed Business Information.

Comcast Corp has rolled out an on-demand, Web-based service for subscribers to both its video programing and Internet access. The goal is to keep customers from dropping their cable subscriptions in search of free shows online. The new service is called Fancast XFINITY TV and is the largest implementation of a cable industry initiative called TV Everywhere, which makes popular shows available over the Web to paying subscribers. Cable TV programmers like Time Warner Inc and Viacom Inc are working with pay-TV providers like Comcast, Time Warner Cable Inc and satellite TV operators. TV Everywhere is trying to …

According to Nielsen data, "Leno" boasted more "product placement activity" -- 1,015 mentions -- than any other regularly scheduled broadcast and cable series in 2009. The next was USA's "WWE Monday Night Raw" was next, with 787 occurrences, followed by NBC's "The Biggest Loser" (704) and Fox's "American Idol" (553). According to Nielsen, "product placement activity" includes both paid appearances and unpaid mentions, particularly for the "Leno" stats. Plus, "Leno" mentions include times when the host or guests make off-the-cuff, unpaid mentions of products or even times when host Leno mocks a product in a sketch. Still, ad integration is …

Despite the rapid decline of the newspaper industry, consumers still turn to Sunday circulars as their primary source of coupons, according to a new Borrell study. Coupon use in general has gone up 36% in the past 12 months -- aided in large part by the recession and changing attitudes toward spending . Sunday circulars still account for 70% of all coupons clipped, according to the study. During that time, the Internet was the source of only 6% of all coupons. It did, however, account for 20% of the total value, because online coupons are worth roughly twice the …

Condé Nast is raising cover prices on The New Yorker, Golf Digest, Teen Vogue in 2010, having already done so at Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit, Condé Nast TravelerLucky this fall. Hearst is lifting the cover price of Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Veranda and is considering the same for Country Living and other titles. Wenner Media quietly raised prices on Men's Journal, Rolling Stone in the fall. And Meredith is eyeing newsstand price increases at flagship Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies' Home Journal, Family Circle, Traditional Home, while Rodale is looking at doing the same at its health/fitness titles. …

Telemundo, the NBC Universal-owned Spanish language network, announced a major news initiative Dec. 14. It will include the creation of a national public affairs program, increased investment in local newscasts at Telemundo stations and a new multimedia strategy. Also, Jose Diaz-Balart will replace Pedro Sevcec on Noticiero Telemundo, the network's nightly newscast. Sevcec's contract has not been renewed. Diaz-Balart, who has hosted various programs at Telemundo, will also host the public affairs show. The network is also beefing up local news efforts.

Hoping to get an ad on CBS.com, Gamespot, TV.com or CNET? Ask CBS, which is will no longer do business with third-party ad networks, but sell its own online inventory. The move re-opens a debate that raged mostly before the economy declined: Are ad networks good or bad for online media and advertising? Now, a host of publishers are looking to wean themselves off the drip-drip revenue from networks in hopes they will be better-positioned when the economy improves. CBS is launching its own internal ad network so it can service advertisers that want to buy demographics or …