Walt Disney Co. is close to settling a lawsuit over Dish Network's ad skipping technology, which "could make ad-skipping a regular feature of TV viewing, and ease the tension between Dish and other programmers," according to anonymous sources cited by Bloomberg reporters. "By agreeing to let Dish customers skip ads on ABC network programs they have recorded, Disney could receive higher monthly subscriber fees."

Mariah Media's Outside magazine is debuting Outside GO, a division that will book adventure travel trips in partnership with the company Uncharted Outposts. "Destinations and adventure travel are a big editorial category for Outside, making the travel business a somewhat natural revenue extension for the brand," writes Bill Mickey.

The almost-60-year-old conservative pub National Review is facing a lawsuit by climate scientist Michael Mann that threatens its survival, writes Damon Linker. Though the magazine "enjoys circulation roughly equivalent to that of The Nation, the American Left's leading journal of opinion, and more than twice that of William Kristol's The Weekly Standard, its primary competition on the Right," it lacks a legal budget large enough to pay a substantial settlement or penalty if it loses the suit.

Time Inc. is shuttering Executive Travel, according to reports from Skift, in a move "consistent with press speculation about a large round of layoffs on both the editorial and business sides of Time Inc. titles prior to this spin off," writes Jason Clampet. The high-end travel mag, previously published six times a year, was acquired from American Express Publishing in October.