• AgencySpy: Google wants to stalk your entire life on the boardwalk. Also, I love the narrator's accent so much.

• Guardian: Happy 79th birthday, Rupert Murdoch! You don't look a day over a billion dollars.

• Maltz Auctions: Sex.com is being auctioned off. Just FYI in case you felt like getting some auction tonight. Sorry.

• The Huffington Post: Former actress Lindsay Lohan is suing E-Trade for an ad they ran using a "milkaholic" baby named Lindsay. Lohan argues that, like Cher or Madonna or Vlad the Impaler, she is famous enough to be known on a first name basis.

• FishbowlLA: Howard Stern thinks Gabourey Sidibe should work on getting thin in order to make it in Hollywood. We suppose receiving an Oscar nomination for your first film role just isn't as prestigious as starring in Private Parts, now that we think about it.

The New York Times has hired Robert H. Christie, formerly of Dow Jones & Co., as its new vice president of corporate communications, the paper announced today. He starts on March 22, and will report to Janet Robinson, president and CEO of the Times Co.

Before working at Dow Jones, Christie worked at Sony, and he's also worked at Goodman Media International and The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He succeeds Catherine Mathis, who quit the Times in August 2009.

Update: FishbowlNY's sister site, PRNewser, provides additional insight into the hire:

Christie told PRNewser via a phone interview today that he is "very excited about the opportunity" and that he "looks forward to doing good work for the Times."

The Times job is one of the most high profile PR jobs in media, and the company clearly took its time in finding the right candidate. A company spokesperson confirmed to PRNewser that they've been evaluating candidates since Mathis' departure.

Times reporters we've spoken to over the past months were speculating as to whether or not the announcement would come before the company announced its "metered pay model" plans in late January.

One reporter we spoke with today said, "we're quite excited...the people who have worked with Christie really respect him." No doubt Times reporters are also happy at the fact they now have a PR leader who knows the inner workings of their arch-rival The Wall Street Journal.

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For those of us who are interested in 1) media, 2) New York, 3) awards of which one's friends have never heard, it is exciting to learn that NY Media has been nominated for several NY Emmys. The New York Emmys, much like the All Over The U.S. Emmys, recognize excellence in television and "video storytelling." This year's awards will be held on Sunday, April 18 at the Marriot Marquis in Times Square.

NYC Media is the official television, radio and online network for the city of New York with the goal of "informing, educating and entertaining New Yorkers about the City's diverse people and neighborhoods, government, services, attractions and activities." So: Huzzah on the various nominations.

A list of NY Media nominees, after the jump:

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Jon Meacham, Newsweek's editor in chief, is in talks to co-host a new weekly PBS TV newsmagazine, "Need to Know," according to a report by The New York Times' Media Decoder blog.

Says Media Decoder:

The co-anchor for the program, which begins May 7 at 8:30 p.m., is expected to be Alison Stewart, formerly of NPR's short-lived "The Bryant Park Project" morning show and, before that, anchor of MSNBC's "The Most."

The new series, which will be an extension of a PBS web site with the same name, replaces "Bill Moyers Journal" and "Now." It will be produced for PBS by New York’s WNET.org, from a new street-side studio at Lincoln Center.

Meacham will not be leaving Newsweek, according to the report.

The author of the Pulitzer-winning American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Meacham has recently appeared on FishbowlNY's pages for commissioning Barack Obama to write a January Newsweek cover story on the earthquake in Haiti and for informing his staff of layoffs in November.

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is changing the name of their health and lifestyle publication from Body + Soul to Whole Living in order to tie it more closely to its website and daily radio show.

The new name will appear on the magazine's June issue, which will also include the tagline "Your Life in Balance." The renamed magazine will feature a new design (everybody's doin' it!) which will showcase its "broader editorial content and richer storytelling."

"Whole Living" has been the name of the magazine's website since 2008, as well as the name of its daily Sirius/XM radio show.

Vice president and editor in chief Alex Postman told attendees at a cross-platform upfront event the name change will be reflective of a more seamless relationship across the brand's platforms:

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The image above is a screen-cap of today's Gothamist Web site. A little to the left of center, floating in that sea of New York Times ads, you can see the Gothamist logo.

The Times' purchase of all that ad space may have less to do with cutting in on a competitor than with taking practical-joke-style revenge on upstart Gothamist editor Jake Dobkin. A month ago Dobkin spat into the wind with a lengthy Facebook screed railing against the Times' "slavish devotion to originality and old-fashioned reporting."

Although its motivations aren't totally clear, the Times seems to have hit back today, by completely immersing all of Gothamist's content in the New York Times logo. The Times basically did to Gothamist what Budweiser does to Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s car, only in a mean way.

Thanks to Gawker for the point.

Condé Nast has named Patrick Connors the new associate publisher of Details.

Connors was formerly the national advertising director for Glamour.

Lucy Kriz previously held the title of associate publisher even as former publisher Steven DeLuca was fired and replaced with Bill Wackerman.

As expected, the Associated Press has tapped Nick Ascheim, former vice president at NYTimes.com, for the general manager spot at AP Digital, the company announced today.

Ascheim will head up AP Gateway, a mobile device - focused unit that launched Feb. 26. In addition to working at the Times, Ascheim was CEO of social-media site TheSquare.com. He has also served as editorial director at FoxNews.com, which he helped launch. Ascheim will be reporting to AP Chief Revenue Officer Jane Seagrave, who succeeded Tom Brettingen in that spot when he retired on March 1.

Along with the announcement of Ascheim's appointment, the AP announced a reshuffling in the company's sales and marketing business:

• Former vice president for sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa Daisy Veerasingham is now senior vice president for business development and partner relations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Asia.

• Senior vice president Sue Cross takes on additional responsibilities as vice president for business development and partner relations for the Americas.

Correction: We originally called Tom Brettingen "Tom Barrington." FishbowlNY regrets the error.

Press release after the jump.

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Last week, we told you that the Financial Times was considering turning to PayPal as a means of allowing readers to pay for subscriptions to online content. Today, FT's lead product manager, Stephen Pinches, who was speaking as part of a panel on the future of video at an industry conference, announced that the finance publication is considering placing its online videos behind a pay wall.

In an argument echoing those of other proponents of creating pay walls for currently free online content, Pinches told those gathered that it is "not a given that video should be free. Some of the most valuable content we have is video content."

In fact, Pinches noted that FT was encouraging other members of the newsroom besides video editors to produce more video content. FT currently produces between 200 and 300 videos garnering over one million views each month, according to Pinches. He added that advertisers' interest in video was only rising.

It is yet to be seen whether this means that, like The New York Times' proposed midday video broadcast, FT's additional video content will act as a supplement to written articles, or whether they will stand alone.

Jim Frederick is the new assistant managing editor at Time, according to a memo obtained by FishbowlNY.

Time managing editor Richard Stengel announced the promotion this morning in an email to the magazine's editorial staff.

Frederick had previously worked as senior editor in Time's London bureau, and before that headed up the magazine's Tokyo bureau.

Full memo after the jump.

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Last night marked the 6th annual ECNY Awards, and the third time the show has been held at Comix comedy club. FishbowlNY was fortunate enough to attend, despite the existence of a two drink minimum.

The event was hosted by one-time "Best Host" winner Jon Friedman, who also happened to take home last night's award for "Best Book" for his tome Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped and Canceled. Relatable! All ECNY winners were selected both through a public voting process and through votes cast by a committee of industry professionals.

Of particular interest to FishbowlNY readers might be the "Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Tweeting" award, which was given to comedian / radio host / blogger Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead). She seemed appropriately embarrassed by the recognition.

Noteworthy presenters included singer-songwriter Andrew WK, Michael Ian Black (who appeared via video), The Village Voice contributor Michael Musto, comedian Sara Benincasa, The Onion editors Joe Garden and John Harris, comedian / singer Reggie Watts and BWE.tv editor Michelle Collins, who was so funny one might be persuaded to almost forgive her for never having gotten back to a certain someone after that someone made it to the second round job interview at Best Week Ever's blog. Haha?

A full list of last night's "winners" -- and perhaps a familiar face on the award show's official Twitter stream -- after the jump.

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Soon, all catfights between the likes of Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Pinker will be available for instant download onto the Sony Readers, Amazon Kindles, and Barnes & Noble Nooks the world over.

Citing remarks by New York Times marketing director James Dunn, Poynter's Damon Kiesow reports that The New York Times will be offering its "Book Review" section as a distinct product. The Sony Reader will be the first device to distribute the "Book Review."

Pricing is unclear for the moment, but Kiesow points out that the Kindle edition of The New York Times costs $13.99 a month -- without crosswords!

Perhaps the Times is trying to unbundle its products, so each distinct section of the paper reaches its target audience. "Book Review" goes to the tweed-jacket, pipe-smoking crowd; "Sports" goes to almost no one; the news section goes to everyone who already subscribes; etc.

(h/t The Guardian)