The Daily Telegraph says Craig Oliver, David Cameron's communications chief, warned the paper that Maria Miller was "looking at Leveson" when it started asking questions about her expenses.
A spokesperson at Springer Nature, which publishes Nature Methods, said the organization had received "a number of communications" already about the paper.
It was only after the meeting among top editors had convened that the New York Times communications department informed the paper's own reporters that a management change was underway, according to a source at the paper.
Kris Coratti, communications director at the paper, replies: "Our coverage of the Redskins and its management speaks for itself".
"This is actually something we've said internally for a long time in speaking about our mission," Shani George, communications director at the paper, told The Huffington Post on Wednesday.
Going beyond the commonly deployed notion that the general public is resistant to public health communications, this paper examines how health individualism, gender and real world constraints enable and limit individual action.
The festival will also feature sessions on the new BBC director general, the Olympics, the communications bill green paper, TV piracy and the implications of Scottish independence on the TV landscape, plus the annual channel of the year awards.
Vickee Adams, director of corporate communications for Dow Jones, the paper's publisher, defended the poll.
BBC chairman Gavyn Davies and director general Greg Dyke were made an offer in the days before Dr Kelly was identified as the MoD "mole", but turned it down because they were determined to give no ground in their battle with Alastair Campbell, director of communications at No 10, the paper said.
In the current Nature Communications paper, the researchers created an experimental realization of their theory using a light source known as a quantum cascade laser.
