Bobby Ghosh has been named the editor of Time International, Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Martha Nelson and Time Managing Editor Rick Stengel told staffers in an announcement Friday morning. "[T]his appointment has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he saved me from getting tear-gassed in Tahrir Square last year," the memo reads.

Jim Frederick is vacating the position "to move on to other challenges," the memo says. He will become a contributing editor. Full text follows. (more...)

The Wall Street Journal | Ad Age
Time Warner has reportedly picked a digital advertising executive with no magazine experience, Laura Lang, to take over as CEO of Time Inc. She is the current CEO of Digitas, one of the largest digital agencies. Ad Age reports that Lang has "a more measured personality, and speaks very deliberately and diplomatically" -- in contrast with previous Time CEO Jack Griffin who was fired about nine months ago. The Wall Street Journal notes her advertising and marketing experience may be useful in helping the company "grapple with a murky print-advertising picture and the migration of consumers to digital devices." Poynter's media business analyst Rick Edmonds said: "It's a marker of a venerable legacy media organization giving the reins of the company to a digital person. She's got a lot of business experience." (more...)

Romenesko+ Memos
A memo to Time Inc. employees says: "When it comes to Nancy, you already know the historic stuff: most covers written – among them four presidential election nights, Columbine, Katrina, the great original 9/11 cover (and a wonderful essay in this 9/11 + 10 issue) — a record that will never be broken. But what you don't know is how Nancy has applied some of those same cover-writing skills to her work as a manager: she has brought great creativity to dealing with the business side, she has excelled at planning stories and covers many months in advance, and she has been a perfect mentor to writers and editors." Her new role as deputy managing editor "will take advantage of all her many skills." (more...)

Romenesko Misc.
Time Inc. says it will be the first major U.S. magazine publisher to make all of its titles available on all leading tablet platforms. It also announced today an agreement with Barnes & Noble to sell digital subscriptions and single-copy issues of Fortune, People, Sports Illustrated and Time on the NOOK Color starting later this month, with the rest of the portfolio to follow by year-end. (more...)

All Things D
Time is making it easier for readers to subscribe to its digital and print editions, and making it harder for non-subscribers to read the magazine online, reports Peter Kafka. He adds that "it’s likely that the vast majority of Time.com’s visits and page views come from stuff that isn't in the magazine, and that will continue to be free, so most site visitors may not notice any change at all."

New subscribers have these three options to read Time content:
* Subscribe to TIME “All Access” for $30/year and receive 56 print issues, full online access and all tablet apps

* Sign up for a 1-week short term pass to access magazine content on TIME.com for $4.99/week

* Sign up for a $2.99/month “All Access” subscription. Each month readers get all of the print editions of TIME, the tablet editions and access to magazine content on TIME.com. This subscription can be cancelled anytime. (more...)

Romenesko Misc.
Radhika Jones joined Time from Paris Review three years ago today. As an assistant managing editor, she edited the last two TIME 100 issues and the Mark Zuckerberg “Person of the Year” issue. "She helped lead the design prototype process which created a re-imagined TIME that has been a great hit with readers and advertisers," writes managing editor Rick Stengel in a memo posted below. (more...)

CNET.com
Starting today, subscribers to Sports Illustrated, Time and Fortune magazines will be able to access the iPad editions via the apps and not have to pay an additional fee. Russell Adams reports in the WSJ: "Time Inc.'s People magazine already had such an arrangement, but readers of most publications have had to pay separately for the iPad version regardless of their subscriber status." || From July 2010: Time Inc. frustrated by Apple over iPad subscription issue.

New York Times
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes says he concluded that Jack Griffin's leadership style and approach didn't mesh with Time Inc. and Time Warner. Jeremy Peters reports: "Griffin made swift and sweeping moves to reorganize Time Inc. once he arrived in a manner that did not sit well with company managers or executives at Time Warner." || Read the memo. || Peter Kafka: "Does Bewkes get credit for getting rid of Griffin early, or penalized for bringing him aboard in the first place? Or both?"
> Even if Griffin's first few months were rocky, it didn’t seem to slow him down