ITV's NEELY TO NBC

NBC News Bill Neely has been named chief global correspondent based in its London outpost.

The 30-year veteran of journalism was international news editor at U.K.’s ITV News.

He reported covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, Syrian conflict, Northern Ireland unrest and was embedded with British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Neely also did a six-year stint in Washington for ITV, covering the White House of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, plus Hurricane Katrina.

Deborah Turness, NBCU president, is a veteran of ITV.

CONDE NAST NAMES INT’L DEALMAKER

Conde Nast International has put its German president and international unit VP Moritz von Laffert in the new post of director of acquisitions of acquisitions and investments.

He will eye deals with start-ups, especially in the digital sector.

CNI has taken recent investment stakes in Farfetch, e-retailer; Vesaire, Collective, online fashion house, and Renesim, online jeweler.

Jonathan Newhouse, CEO of CNI, said in a statement that von Laffert “has the experience and know-how to drive expansion.”

CN reports strong growth on the digital front this year as advertising grew 28 percent compares to 1.7 percent rise in print ads.

More than 50 sponsors signed up for the CN Entertainment digital video network that launched during the first half.

That platform joins daily content from seven outliets including Vanity Fair, Vogue, Wired, GQ, Glamour, Style.com and Teen Vogue.

Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Unilever, American Express and Mondelez are charter advertising.

On the ad front, Bon Appetit (+22 percent) showed the healthiest ad gain. Details (15.9 percent), GQ (9.9 percent), Allure (4.8 percent), Vogue (3.6percent), Gold Digest (3.3 percent) Teen Vogue (2.6 percent), W (2.2 percent) and Architectural Digest (2.1 percent) followed.

LAGANI TAKES GLAM PREXY POST

Dan Lagani, a veteran of Reader’s Digest Assn., Meredith, Conde Nast and Fairchild Fashion Group, is now president & chief revenue officer of Glam Media.

He reports to Samir Arora, CEO.

Most recently, Langani was president of North America for RDA, responsible for bolstering digital operations, forging a co-insurance brand with Humana and launching cause-related programs.

At Meredith, he was publisher of Ladies Home Journal, Better Homes and Gardens and George Magazine.

In the newly created position, Langani takes on sales, brand strategy, media agency relations and client service.

TIME INC IRONS OUT PAY PACKAGES

Former Time Inc. CEO Laura Lang, who was succeeded in September by Joe Ripp, will receive a salary of about $1M through Nov. 2, 2015, according to the company’s Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Nov. 2.

She’ll also receive an amount equal to her average bonus and target bonus through the same time frame.

Lang, who did a 15-month CEO stint, earned total comp of $7.6M in 2012, which included a $962K salary and $3B bonus.

The 61-year-old Ripp inked a five-year contract with an annual salary of $1M, which is subject to discretionary increases and a discretionary annual cash bonus with a target amount of $1.5M.

Time granted Ripp a $750K payment for this year to compensate for his forfeited bonus earned as CEO at Chief Executive Officer of OneSource Information Services, Inc.

Time Inc., with $3.5B in revenues, is the biggest magazine publisher in the U.S.

It is being spun off from Time Warner next year.