Here is some video of I Want Media’s annual “Future of Media” talk. Taking part in this year’s discussion were Mark Thompson, Jonah Peretti, Henry Blodget, Cindy Jeffers and Roy Sekoff.

It’s an hour long, but hey, it’s not like you have to work or anything today.

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The Globe reports that during an investor conference call, Thompson explained that he was “very pleased with the interest, and the progress, that’s been expressed so far.”

Okay, that’s about as vague as it gets. One nugget we did find though: Evercore Group, which is responsible for fetching bids for the Globe, has already conducted meetings with six different interested parties. Who were they? Know one knows! But apparently they were very pleasing. So please be pleased.

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If an hour-long discussion on “How the Internet and other digital media are transforming the traditional media landscape” gets you all hot and bothered (don’t be ashamed, there are no judgements here), you’re probably going to want to attend.

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“We are very proud of our association with the Globe and the Telegram & Gazette, but given the differences between these businesses and The New York Times, we believe that a sale is in the best long-term interests of these properties and the employees who work for them as well as in the best interests of our shareholders,” said Mark Thompson, CEO of the Times Company, in a statement.

This wouldn’t be the first time the Times has tried to sell the Globe. In 2009, as the Globe hemorrhaged money, the Times considered ditching the paper. The Times relented when cutbacks reduced the Globe’s overall losses. Plus, the bids the Times did receive weren’t exactly enticing.

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Robert Christie

According to the Times, after Christie leaves, his position will be eliminated. Eileen Murphy, vice president of corporate communications, will lead the department going forward.

“Bob’s extensive experience and broad range of contacts in the industry have been very valuable over the past three years,” wrote Mark Thompson, CEO of the Times, in a memo.

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Now, according to The New York Post, Times staffers are putting cash behind that anger, as they’ve started placing bets on how long Thompson will be employed by the paper. The idea came after two big meetings with Thompson were pushed into 2013.

If you think this is unprofessional, you should see how big the Times staffer pool is for “Last Bag of Bugles in the Vending Machine.”

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New York Times

Thompson has only been at the helm of the Times for two weeks, but he is under intense scrutiny due to a scandal that erupted at his former employer, the BBC. Thompson was the director general of the BBC when an investigative report that would reveal a major pedophilia scandal at the company was quashed. Thompson maintained that he had no involvement in killing the story.

“The people who have been saying he perhaps isn’t the best choice for the best job are the public editor, who does not actually work in the newsroom, and one of our columnists, who work for the editorial page,” Abramson said, adding ” I don’t think the public editor looked at our coverage.

I certainly have had a team of reporters in New York and London reporting on this story, and we have done a number of lengthy enterprise pieces on the unfolding issues in the BBC investigation,” Abramson added.

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According to the Times (by the way, it must be brutal to be dragged over the coals by your own company), the letter was sent to The Sunday Times, by lawyers representing Thompson and another unnamed BBC executive. People who have seen the note told the Times that it contained “a summary of the alleged abuse, including the allegation that some abuse might have occurred at the BBC.” The letter was sent 10 days before Thompson left the BBC.

An aide to Thompson while he was at the BBC told the Times that he did “verbally authorize” his lawyers to send it. However, “It’s not clear if he was shown it, but he doesn’t remember reading it.”

It would be quite odd for someone of Thompson’s position — or anyone, really — to agree to a letter that threatened to sue another company without reading it, don’t you think? We have a feeling things are going to get a lot hotter for Thompson.

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Currently, British law enforcement agents are investigating the celebrity Jimmy Savile over allegations that he abused hundreds of underage girls. Thompson enters into that picture because people have claimed that under his watch, the BBC program Newsnight killed an investigative piece on Savile, in an effort to quiet the scandal. To make matters worse, Thompson’s successor and two other senior executives have abruptly resigned due to pressure from the alleged misconduct.

As you can imagine, Times staffers are a little worried about the whole thing.

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During Thompson’s time at the BBC, an investigative piece on Savile for the program Newsnight was killed. Now, a committee is looking into who knew what, when. One of those people who might have known something is Thompson. Thompson has repeadetly denied any wrongdoing. In an interview with the Times, he reiterated that stance:

There is nothing to suggest that I acted inappropriately in the handling of this matter. I did not impede or stop the ‘Newsnight’ investigation, nor have I done anything else that could be construed as untoward or unreasonable.

As if this wasn’t enough of a problem for Thompson, he also has to deal with a hoard of angry unionized staffers, who posed for this group picture to show Thompson just how vital their new contract is:

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According to a union memo obtained by Jim Romensko, the union asks staffers to make time between 4 pm and 5:30 pm to distribute information outside of the Times’ headquarters.

“With flyers and placards, we’ll be right outside our own building (and, handily enough, directly across the street from Proskauer Rose, the law firm that is representing the company in the current talks),” states the note. “The public relies on us to give them the story straight.”

The question is, will anyone bother to take a flyer? And if they do, will they just glance at it and then toss it in the trash can on the next corner? Many a flyer have met their death this way.

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This afternoon around 3:30, about 375 New York Times staffers walked out in an effort to protest management’s handling of contract negotiations. “We’re trying to save the essence of The New York Times,” said Metro columnist Michael Powell. Staffers wore stickers that read “Believe us.” and walked from the building’s 40th St. entrance, up Eighth Ave. to the entrance on 41st St. continued…

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Mark Thompson

According to a memo from Lex Haris, CNNMoney’s managing editor, Thompson will be hiring two reporters in London, and an editor and reporter in Hong Kong.

The full note from Haris is below.

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Mark Thompson

One million per year is not a bad salary. It’s only about $55 million less than Manny Pacquaio made last year and $36 million less than Adam Sandler.

That’s probably not a good way of looking at it.

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The Daily Beast’s Peter Jukes finds that Thompson has a big ego:

He is  journalist to the bone—though, as a former senior BBC Executive told The Daily Beast ‘he was always on the move somewhere and made decisions on the basis how good it would make him look.’ ‘Yes he’s interested in journalism,’ the source said, ‘but Mark Thompson’s main area of interest is Mark Thompson.’

An egotistical journalist is very rare, so this is quite worrisome!

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