Vivian Schiller, who three months ago resigned as CEO of NPR, will join NBC News as chief digital officer. Schiller's past experience includes a stint at CNN.

Jill Abramson will become the first woman to run the New York Times in its 160-year history when she takes over for Bill Keller as executive editor Sept. 6. Abramson was formerly managing editor -- a position Dean Baquet, the Times' Washington bureau chief, will now hold. Keller is resigning to write full-time, planning a new column that will run in the Times' revamped Sunday Review section.

Broadband is replacing TV as the cable industry's main product, Time Warner Cable chief executive Glenn Britt told an investor conference. As a result, Time Warner intends to sell more "single-play" broadband to people who may get video service from a satellite operator or another alternative. Britt said that Time Warner Cable currently has more than 2 million broadband customers who don't subscribe to video service, and roughly half of those are commercial customers. The company, which has previously pushed its "triple play" package of broadband, cable and phone, has 12.3 million residential video customers and 9.5 million residential …

The uber-popular game "Angry Birds" is coming to TV later this yer, courtesy of Roku, the television set-top box maker. Three versions of "Birds" will be available for sale. "We think casual games are going to be big on TV," Roku CEO Anthony Wood tells Bloomberg's Cliff Edwards.

Just as the U.S. portion of the Hearst and Lagardère deal closed, Esquire publisher Kevin O'Malley was named the new publisher of Elle. He has no women's mag experience but does have strong relationships with major retailers and fashion designers, Hearst publishing director Michael Clinton tells Women's Wear Daily.Former Elle publisher Kevin Martinez has moved down the masthead to the position of associate publisher, and Hearst execs are now searching for an Esquire publisher.

Hundreds of Miramax movies like "Pulp Fiction" and "Amelie" will now be available for streaming on Hulu Plus subscription services, per the new deal. This comes weeks after Netflix and Miramax signed off on a similar arrangement. And, marking the first time Miramax films will be available in an ad-supported environment, Hulu.com "will offer access to a rotating roster of about 15 Miramax titles per month for free, with ads thrown in," according to Gigaom.

Fox News debuts its iPad app with an exclusive sponsor: ExxonMobil. The company wanted to build on the success of its iPhone app, the most downloaded free news app of 2010, by "looking for the critical mass that would support the app financially," according to Jeremy Steinberg, Fox News VP of digital media ad sales and business development.

Formerly called "critical" to the expansion of the company, Conde Nast Digital has lost both top-line personnel (its president and editorial director are gone) and magazine-branded Web sites to operate, with such stand-alone sites as style.com moving to the Fairchild Fashion Group. "But that still leaves a handful of orphan brands to deal with... like the award-winning Epicurious and news aggregator Reddit," writes Lucia Moses in Adweek.