The first print consumer magazine from fashion ecommerce site Net-a-Porter, Porter, originally slated to launch this fall, is delaying the start till February in order to launch a mobile brand platform alongside the paper version. It will be published six times a year and be distributed on newsstands and by subscription.

Actor Alec Baldwin will be hosting his own MSNBC talk show, "Up Late With Alec Baldwin," to air 10 p.m. on Fridays starting next month. "Certainly Baldwin's liberal politics are an organic fit for MSNBC, which has been making changes to its primetime and early prime lineup with he addition of Chris Hayes at 8 p.m. and Ed Schultz at 5 p.m.," writes Marisa Guthrie.

Adjusting to the fast pace of Internet journalism has changed humor pub The Onion -- and not for the better, argues Farhad Manjoo. "The new Onion sometimes aims for Jon Stewart’s game: ultra-clever but also a little scoldy, oversmart, and lacking much nuance," Manjoo writes. "In an attempt to make a viral joke, the new Onion often makes an easy one." Manjoo explains further how moving the writing staff to Chicago and cutting down on print editions may have cut a few layers from The Onion.

Vulture's got a double bill of timely TV features we liked. This rundown of the 12 best Mary Tyler Moore Show episodes was in honor of last night's "Hot in Cleveland" ep on TV Land that reunited the five lady stars.Meanwhile, with the fourth season of "Downton Abbey" set to begin air in the U.K. later this month (in the U.S. in January), there's a Q&A with star Michelle Dockery, whose inside tidbits include the time frame of the premiere ep -- six months after the death of Matthew, her character Mary's husband, whom she's still mourning.

Condé Nast Germany is planning an epic, one-time only project that will be on newsstands in November: a 200-page edition of a magazine "jointly conceived and managed by the editors in chief of its five leading publications — Vogue, Glamour, Myself, GQ, and AD," writes Melissa Drier. The pub, called Shokunin (a Japanese word with two meanings, one of which is "commitment to providing society with something of value and excellence," according to Drier), will be a supplement to the December issues of each of the pubs mentioned above. (And no, Myself  is not the German version of Condé's …

On the first day of football season, Sports Illustrated is rolling out "Pro Football Now," a weekly live half-hour Web series to be broadcast Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. It's all part of a football-heavy strategy that included the earlier launch of a new football-only website, The MMQB, which the company reports is doing very well.

Time Inc. is debuting Time Engage, a product "designed to use the company's vast reader data to better target ads not just in digital media but in print," writes Michael Sebastian. The program piloted with Toyota last year, helping the company to discover more "contextually relevant" places to run ads for its foodie-like target demo than simply near food editorial.  Most recent marketer to sign up: Johnson & Johnson.

Good news for New Yorkers who are also avid TV fans: the PaleyFest, the 30-year-old Los Angeles event featuring panels of creative and acting talent from specific TV shows, will be moving east Oct. 2-6.  New York-based shows including "The Americans" (sign us up for that!), Orange Is the New Black” and “Elementary” will be featured.

Digital editions of more than 220 college newspapers, including the Harvard Crimson, will be available on  Barnes & Noble Nook devices through a partnership with UWire, a wire service for such pubs. Most subscriptions will be priced between 99 cents and $1.99 per month.

News Corp. sold 33 local publications -- including eight daily papers (among them Oregon's AshlandDaily Tidings) and 15 weeklies to real estate investment trust Newscastle Investment Fund for $87 million. That leaves just a few pubs in its Dow Jones inventory: the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron’s, SmartMoney.com, "and the conferences business and news site AllThingsD, whose contract with the company ends this year," writes Edmund Lee.