USA Today Publisher Larry Kramer says the paper will double its print circulation this year through its partnership with "Gannett’s 80 other regional papers, placing full sections of USA Today editorial content and advertising in Gannet’s top newspapers," writes Sharon Waxman. ”USA Today appearing in a local newspaper is like NBC News appearing on the local affiliates airwaves," Kramer tells Waxman, and he plans to "extend USA Today’s brand into regional newspapers not owned by Gannett."

CBS doubled the number of episodes it's providing to Hulu Plus, to a total of 5,300 on "a multi-year, non-exclusive basis," for such series as  “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Ghost Whisperer,” and “United States of Tara," writes Andrew Wallenstein.

Hearst launched a revamped corporate website -- "a highly functional exercise in native self-promotion" of the company's products, not only magazines like Cosmopolitan but 29 TV stations, writes Jason Abbruzzese.

The fact that former New York Times editor and columnist Bill Keller is leaving the Gray Lady to lead online journalism startup The Marshall Project "is a great flashing sign that reads, 'Newspapers are the past,'" writes Hamilton Nolan.  Still, "a former Times editor going to a news startup is a big deal. News startups realizing they shouldn't hire former newspaper editors to lead them will be a bigger deal."

With the National Security Agency squarely in their sights, so-called Web freedom activists are "planning a day of protest against mass surveillance," on Tuesday. “In a movement called ‘The Day We Fight Back,’ thousands of Web sites will host a banner urging people to call Congress in opposition to the FISA Improvements Act, which was approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee and its chairman, Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.),” NBC News reports. 

Getty Images and Sheryl Sandberg-co-founded Leanin.org. are partnering to launch a stock photo gallery of "2,500 images that offer more positive and powerful perceptions of women," writes Kurt Wagner.

Charter Communications will begin "one of the biggest recent hostile takeover bids" next week when it nominates "a full slate of candidates for Time Warner Cable Inc.'s 13-member board," according to plans divulged by anonymous sources cited by Wall Street Journal reporters. "Charter, the fourth largest cable operator by subscribers, has been attempting to bring Time Warner Cable, the second biggest cable company, to the negotiating table for a merger deal since late last spring." All three of Charter's offers have been rejected.

Condé Nast is investing in programmatic buying platform iSocket -- a sign that "traditional publishers are getting even deeper into automated buying," writes Emma Bazilian. "ISocket revealed today that it has received $5 million in new funding led by Time Warner Investments and Condé Nast..."

Carl Icahn still believes that Apple should redistribute its wealth, but, at least the time being, the famed investor will no long push the matter with shareholders. As such, Icahn said he was dropping his shareholder proposal that would have asked Apple to buy back $50 billion of stock this year. “The move came after an influential advisory firm, Institutional Shareholder Services, weighed in on the debate by telling shareholders they should vote against Icahn's proposal,” the Los Angeles Times reports. 

The New York Times had 760,000 digital subscribers by 2013's Q4, with revenue from digital-only subscribers increasing 36% year-over-year. But "total revenue was essentially flat for the year," writes Chris O'Shea.