The Ticker: Bell, Bragg, AT&T/FNC…

> “When we joked about MSNBC peons printing out resumes at the cable net’s Secaucus headquarters in preparation of their near-certain slashings, we were only kidding,” Jossip says. But someone took it seriously…

> What’s Jim Bell been up to at Today? For one, he “has already created a new unit of interview bookers to ensure that Today won’t lose out on those all-important ‘gets,'” B&C notes in this profile…

> Also in B&C: Kristin Bragg, the senior director of strategic planning for CNN’s ad sales division, has been promoted to VP…

> Jason Samuels has joined the ABC News Digital Unit as a senior producer. He spent the last 11 years at Dateline NBC…

> AT&T and Fox News have announced “a distribution agreement to deliver FNC programming as part of the AT&T U-verse TV channel lineup…”