Ebony magazine relaunched its Web site in an effort "to reverse years of ad declines and stay relevant with African-American readers," according to Adweek. Spearheading the effort: Code and Theory, "whose work on the relaunch of Vogue.com was followed by massive traffic gains for that site."  "We’re really aiming to be at the core of the African-American conversation online,"Ebony editor in chief Amy DuBois Barnett tells Adweek. To that end, there's "news from across the Web alongside homegrown content," and "more entertainment, wellness, and lifestyle content."

The Tampa Bay Times has extended its 5% pay cuts for staffers -- begun in September and supposed to last only through January -- until May.  “Despite the extension, we will still regard this measure as temporary,” writes Chairman Paul Tash in a company memo.

The political newspaper/website Politico is expanding its distribution from Washington,D.C. to New York City, with roughly 4,000 copies distributed (daily, we assume, though this post doesn't say) through newspaper boxes, and delivered to "financial executives, media personnel, both broadcast and print, as well as select personnel in Madison Avenue advertising agencies," according to a Politico statement. "Although Politico’s website may have a far broader reach than its newspaper sibling," there's still "robust" demand for a print product -- especially for older (over 40) readers, writes Emma Bazilian.

Marketers have spent $1.72 billion on Super Bowls over the past 10 years, and will probably surpass last year's record of $228 million for a game that was "the most-watched program in U.S. television history," writes Sam Mamudi.  This rundown on Super Bowl ad stats also includes the fact that "more than a third of the ad spend in the past decade has come from just five companies." But we could swear we read versions of this sentence every year: "Regardless who triumphs in this year’s Super Bowl, the night’s biggest winner could well be broadcaster NBC Universal." Hard to …

E.W. Scripps forecast a 50% jump in revenue for its TV business, thanks in part to its recent purchase of nine stations -- but a decline in its newspaper revenue. “Our TV business is very healthy,” Chief Financial Officer Tim Wesolowski told Business Courier, predicting "very robust spending on the political side on TV.”

Oxygen is officially renewing "Glee Project" for a second season to air this summer. Fourteen (instead of last season's 12) contestants will vie for the chance to star on a seven-episode arc of Fox's "Glee" -- that is, if the original show itself is renewed, which is expected.

With Spanish-language newspapers down for the count -- most recently the San Francisco-based Spanish-language weekly El Sol De Visalia, shuttered in December -- "Latino media have been shifting toward incorporating bilingual and bicultural content,"  according to New America Media.“The Latino (print media) market isn’t a Spanish market, it isn’t an English market,” Kirk Whisler, president of Latino Print Media, tells NAM. “It is a bilingual market and that person out there is going to sit and choose what they want based on what’s being offered to them. Language is almost secondary." This post also includes case histories of …

When does "Stop the Presses!" mean digital before print? At the 880 print and digital outlets around the U.S.  controlled by John Paton, employees do "tweeting, Facebooking, blogging and video-posting news before contributing a single keystroke toward the next day's paper." Paton is profiled here as "the onetime copy boy [who] has advanced to become one of the most powerful figures in the transformation of journalism from its print and analog past to a digital future.... Everyone in the news business talks about expanding their footprint online, but Paton has pushed more aggressively in that direction and on a bigger …

A group of Netflix investors filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, alleging it withheld info about contracts with content providers. The plaintiffs say that "Netflix concealed the fact that content providers were demanding much higher license fees, that pricing would need to increase, and that Netflix wasn't on track to meet earnings forecasts," writes Eriq Gardner.

Initial ratings for the Golden Globes, TV's precursor to the usually bigger deal Academy Awards, slipped a bit from the 2011 event: 16.8 million viewers versus last year's 17 million. Most reviewers agreed that the proceedings were less interesting than last year's, with host Ricky Gervais turning in a "relatively tame performance," writes Josef Adalin. At least that's comparing his best lines on Sunday night to last year's zingers about some of Hollywood's most high-profile stars.