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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

The Huffington Post Hits Record 26 Million Unique Visitors in November, Now Ranked Number Two “Newspaper,” comScore — The Huffington Post has registered 26 million unique monthly visitors in the United States, a record for the site, according the comScore November data for the “Newspaper Sites.”

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:

The Huffington Post hires NYT's Sunday Business editor — The Huffington Post, which recently hired New York Times economic correspondent Peter Goodman, has returned to the Gray Lady to poach another veteran journalist: Sunday Business editor Timothy L. O'Brien.

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Poynter, New York Observer, Slate, Gawker and On Media's Blog

John Koblin / WWD Media Headlines:

Memo Pad: Jumping Ship... Sims Card... Moving On Up... JUMPING SHIP: Maybe a year ago the media world would have been surprised to see the Sunday New York Times business editor leave the paper and head to The Huffington Post. But the announcement on Thursday that Tim O'Brien is going to work …

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

CNN Fills the Gap Between King and Morgan — CNN has a month of time to fill between Larry King's last day and the first day for his replacement, Piers Morgan. Mr. King's final edition of “Larry King Live” will be broadcast on Thursday. — Here's the plan after that point …

Discussion: Tuned In, Yahoo! News, Mediaite, The Wrap, Chickaboomer, Media News International and Inside Cable News

David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:

Flipboard's Mike McCue: Web format has ‘contaminated’ online journalism — Flipboard, the social magazine app for the iPad, seems to be having a flipping good run. — Last week, the famously design-conscious Apple Inc. named Flipboard its App of the Year.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and BoomTown

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Another Love Note From Facebook to Media Sites: A New Sign-Up Tool — More outreach from Facebook to media companies: A new registration tool, which is supposed to make it even easier for Web site visitors to sign on to the site using their Facebook account.

Discussion: BoomTown

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Yahoo! News, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, NetNewsCheck Latest and New York Observer, more at Techmeme »

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

The Foursquare For Websites OneTrueFan Launches In Beta, Opens Up To Publishers — We wrote about the Foursquare for websites OneTrueFan, at the startup's launch at TechCrunch Disrupt in September. After three months in Alpha, OneTrueFan is opening its doors and launching in beta.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

NY Times Editor: WikiLeaks Is ‘Not My Kind of News Organization’ — Bill Keller. Image via Wikipedia — Is WikiLeaks a media organization, or is it something else? It's a question with important implications, given the special protections afforded the press, but it's …

Discussion: Press Gazette, Nieman Journalism Lab, Media News International and FishbowlNY

Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:

Meredith Launches Video Network For Women — As video presents ever-greater ad opportunities online, Meredith Corporation on Wednesday launched its own female-focused video network. — The network includes video from Meredith brands Parents, Family Circle, More and Fitness, among other properties.

Discussion: Media Buyer Planner and FishbowlNY

Wall Street Journal:

Amazon Can't Dent iTunes — On the day Apple Inc. rolled out the Beatles' catalog on its iTunes Store, Amazon.com Inc. fired back with a digital exclusive of its own: The latest album from rap-rocker Kid Rock—whose music still isn't available on iTunes—for just $3.99.

Discussion: The Next Web and Electronista, more at Techmeme »

Dana Gage / Tribune Media Services:

Tribune Media Services Acquires Internet Video Search and Indexing Company, CastTV — Tribune Media Services (TMS), a leading provider of entertainment information databases, announced today that it has acquired CastTV, a leader in video search, indexing and data technologies for discovering TV shows …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, NetworkEffect, MediaPost, paidContent, GigaOM and TechCrunch

Nick Summers / New York Observer:

Despite Murdoch, Wall Street Journal Still Wins Deal Scoops — Last week, I wrote about the DealBook franchise at The New York Times, which in nine years has expanded from a simple morning email newsletter to an entire arm of the newspaper's business section.

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Alan Patrick / broadstuff:

Paid-For News Will Win Out (Today the Tablet....) — (From Broadsight's ever-thoughtful Paul Lancefield) — Last week I got the new Sunday Times app on the iPad. The subscription is £2 per week for six days of The Times and the Sunday Times, as you would expect, on Sunday.

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Google News Adds “Follow News” Button, Easy Way To Customize Home Page — Google News has quietly added a new button that allows you to easily bookmark frequent searches and create custom sections within your personalized Google News home page. — The New “Follow News” Button

Gautham Nagesh / Hillicon Valley:

Experts: Charging WikiLeaks could erode freedom of the press — Charging WikiLeaks for releasing classified government materials may lead to similar prosecutions against media companies that publish state secrets, according to legal experts at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday.

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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Confirmed: Yahoo Closing Buzz, Traffic APIs - Maybe Delicious & AltaVista — News is traveling fast about a leaked slide from a Yahoo “all hands” meeting earlier this week that listed several products — including Delicous and AltaVista — to be “sunsetted.” Yahoo confirms that Yahoo Buzz will be closed, as will the Traffic APIs.

Discussion: The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, NetworkEffect, VentureBeat, Geekosystem and ResourceShelf, more at Techmeme »

Matt Thompson / Snarkmarket:

A hypothetical path to the Speakularity — Yesterday NiemanLab published some of my musings on the coming “Speakularity” — the moment when automatic speech transcription becomes fast, free and decent. — I probably should have underscored the fact that I don't see this moment happening in 2011 …

Nick Davies / Guardian:

Hacking ‘approved by NoW chief’ — High court papers lodged by Sienna Miller's lawyers contradict paper's insistence that a single ‘rogue’ journalist was involved — Lawyers have secured explosive new evidence linking one of the News of the World's most senior editorial executives …

Discussion: Press Gazette