The magazine Mental Floss promoted Jessanne Collins from editor to its top spot, editor in chief -- a personnel shift that, somewhat surprisingly, merited a full column in the New York Times. Maybe it's because of Collins' background as an editor on Playgirl magazine? That's where she reported "to executives at a publishing house that produced a bevy of pornographic titles, working with budgets so tight that she was used as a model," writes Christine Haughney. To her credit, Haugney does not put this fact in the lead, instead positioning this perhaps undue interest in Collins as evidence …

In another news item about a veteran media personality today, Geraldo Rivera is relaunching his year-old radio show with the new year with a focus just on New York City. It will air on WABC-AM only, after previously airing on "KABC-AM in Los Angeles and 45 other stations across the country," writes Chris Ariens.

Katie Couric's move to Yahoo from ABC News, confirmed in a Yahoo blog post, is an "awkward fit," writes Andrew Wallenstein. Couric "is such a creature of a different and indelible medium that she simply can’t come alive again in the way that a digital-native personality with a news orientation, like a Philip DeFranco, could be."  Maybe, "after stints at CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC," she is "going to Yahoo because there is simply nowhere else to go."

Time Warner's IPO filing for the spinoff of Time Inc. should make some figures public that haven't seen the light of day since 1989, writes Keith Kelly. Among that info: the salaries of top officers, plus "a detailed financial picture for the last three years as well as the outlook going forward for Time Inc." he writes. "The last time those figures were publicly available was prior to the 1989 merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications."

ABC TV affiliate WCPO is erecting a paywall for much of its website content early in 2014, writes Andrew Beaujon. First we've heard of a TV station doing this.

People are still reading magazines! Yes, "the number of magazine readers in the U.S. is actually up slightly, according to the latest GfK MRI’s Survey of the American Consumer, which tracks print and digital magazine readership," writes Emma Bazilian. The increase is only about 1.6% though. Still, tracking pubs individually, some were up by significant numbers: Teen Vogue (up 39%), The Atlantic (up 34%) and Esquire (up 29%).

Now that Nielsen owns Arbitron, Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews is lobbying for Nielsen to measure the Internet radio/recommendation service, a job that Arbitron previously neglected to do.  From McAndrews' side, it sounds like just a matter of time, according to his quote in Radio Ink: "Clearly we would like to be measured by Nielsen. They would like to measure us. We will continue discussions with them... to try to make that happen as quickly as we can."

Twitter is now experimenting with small steps toward its goal of becoming the next TV Guide: running banners "promoting TV shows to its users, supposedly based on the amount of chatter they are generating on the service," writes Peter Kafka. "The Twitter TV promotions aren’t formal ads, though you could easily imagine a way Twitter might charge for them, directly or indirectly. More important to Twitter is the idea that it can drive traffic to TV shows (which it is also trying to do with Comcast and the cable company’s “Seeit” buttons)."

Comcast just debuted its Xfinity TV Store, offering at the moment roughly 170 movies and seven TVs series for purchase, to be streamed on the Web, on mobile devices or through set-top boxes. The company expects to increase the size of its library of titles "rapidly," writes Jeff Baumgartner.

Women's Wear Daily Executive Editor Bridget Foley writes a fascinating behind-the-scenes piece on the relationship between PR people and the press, noting that "one aspect of the industry that has changed tremendously is the ever-increasing level of control brands try to exert over their press coverage." Examples include an exec saying "off the record" at "a press event," writes Foley. "A senior brand executive, whether creative or business side, has no expectation of privacy when speaking with clearly identified journalists invited by her/his company for the sole purpose of covering the event."